Kevin M.

For about two or three years I have wanted to make a bow but was not sure that I could. I didn’t know how to do it or what was needed. A couple of months ago, after some research on the Internet and reading a few books from the library on the subject I decided to try making one. I made the bow out of a hickory board, being a good, durable wood for the task and something I could buy locally. This is the finished product along with an arrow I made. It pulls 50# @ 29″, is 66″ nock to nock and has about 2 1/2″ of set. I twisted a string from dracon B-50 (bow string material) and stitched a piece of leather around the handle.

There are a couple more photos here.

kmpierpont :: Apr.12.2007 :: Adventures, Ballistics, Cool, Outdoors, Pictures, Survival :: No Comments »

My Mom took us sledding today at Pioneer Hill - You can see some pictures here

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kmpierpont :: Dec.09.2006 :: Adventures, Cool, Documentations, Fun, Outdoors, Pictures, Snow :: No Comments »

Here are some photos I took today. More can be found here.

A Blue Jay.

Trees amidst the clouds.

My poor bro Taylor - He recklessly jumped head first into The Leaf Pile (yes “The Leaf Pile” is a place and therefore a proper noun).

kmpierpont :: Nov.08.2006 :: Cool, Documentations, Fun, Outdoors, Pictures :: 3 Comments »

How often do you get free rides to the tops of the trees? My brothers, sister and I got a free ride up towards the skies today at the courtesy of the “lumberjacks” that were cutting down some of our neighbor’s trees. Here are some pictures of the ride. More pictures here.

The Bucket Truck.

My bro Nicholas in the bucket.

My brother Josiah.

Hello Down There!

Zoomed in.

The awesome view from the bucket.

kmpierpont :: Nov.03.2006 :: Adventures, Cool, Fun, Michigan, Outdoors, Pictures :: 2 Comments »

Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George

kmpierpont :: Oct.27.2006 :: Books, Outdoors, Reading, Uncategorized :: 1 Comment »

This is what happens when you play basketball in Northen Michigan Before the snow melts.

kmpierpont :: Mar.15.2006 :: BasketBall, Cool, Fun, Michigan, Outdoors, Pictures, Snow, Sports :: No Comments »

Today I have riddled a rather large mushroom with darts from my homemade blowgun. The blowgun is a three foot copper tube and the darts consist of rolled up paper. Some people just might like to how to make thier own and if so you will find the link here. Also there is another picture of the mushroom on my Flickr Page.

kmpierpont :: Aug.30.2005 :: Fun, Outdoors, Projects :: 1 Comment »

I took this picture today while my brother and I went mountian biking on the cross-country ski trails near our house.

kmpierpont :: Jul.27.2005 :: Mountain Biking, Outdoors, Pictures :: No Comments »

This is a picture of a fire we had in our backyard a few nights ago.

kmpierpont :: Jul.27.2005 :: Fun, Outdoors, Pictures :: No Comments »

We went camping three nights up in St. Ignace and went to the Soo Locks, swam in Lake Michigan and climbed Castle Rock.

kmpierpont :: Jul.12.2005 :: Michigan, Outdoors, Pictures, Travel :: No Comments »