yes you can live without money but it is nice to have money. Stupid question for english Do you know how to make your own clothing from skinns or even plant materals? I can make a shirt from skinns but you need to whats the word?..I dont know you have to mess with them. get off the skinn and such.
ok lets say you can make clothing for when yours rips out in the woods. You need salt. you can get salt from animals but it sucks not having salt. I went camping for a few weeks once and all i could say about the food is that it would be better with a little salt.

now with a little money you could emerge from the woods every once in a while get a few neccisaties that you cant find or make. Also it is very easy to use up all the food in one area of the wilderness. Forests are balanceing on a pin adding a large predator into the food chain might upset it and youll run out of food. this is why large predators are spread so thinn.

you could farm and fix this problem but do you want to go out and find seeds? you could its possibul but it would suck. You only need to buy seeds once if you are not a dumbass and you save a little of the crop.


so what im saying is that you could live out in the wilderness without money but it would be hard and the idea is to enjoy your self not to be constantly starved, alone, if you miss so many hunts like say if you get sick then you starve to death. Yep nice to be self sufficent but if you kill all the pray eat all the plants and you have no farm its nice to walk into a McDonads, filthy, whearing home made clothing out of rabbit skins, and talking to your self.

Hickory, Osage, Ash and Locust are the three woods that are predominate bow woods here. Locust has been used here to make some pretty tough fence posts...got some in the pasture. They dont rot to quickly.
I have heard a friend of mine say hes used oak, but the bow had to be as long as you are tall...could be a wise tale. I dunno.
He also used a type of  tree related to the locust...cant remember the name but he said its close relation...
hawthorn maybe ???
Hawk

yep thats true of the locust. I have a stump from an old locust tree we cut down. I set on said stump when we go out back to have a fire. A few years ago the thing started growing branches! and when i tryed to move it it too root to the ground!

I figure i could let it grow, sorta bonsi it a bit and have a living chair with a back rest and all. would be cool for shure.

wouldnt it be good if you could plant a leg in the ground and grow a slave or if you stood still for too long and you grew extra limbs, that will be one to tell the kids when i get older a have some,i can imagine''if you stand there to long you will take root and daddy will have to chop you down with a chainsaw

cool. english could write you a book on bow makeing. But we already have a book go to the link some where in other primitive weapons there is a topic called whats next on the weapons list. We have lots of bow making stuff there.

Well, a modern compound bow is far more efficient than any primitive bows, so a 50 pounder is probably as good as 70 or even more in a wood bow.  I do believe that 50 pounds is enough though.