Pacific yew

And, uh, And since we knew that this was all going to be clear cut, everything is going to get knocked down, we tried to cut every yew tree that looked like it had some value to it because none of them are going to be left standing.

So, you know, a yew tree can look...

Yew is really...

Oh, gosh.

You know, the best description for a yew tree that you can make self-bows out of is it needs to be stovepipe clean and with no branches on it.

And it does make, it makes terrific bows.

In other words, it'll make a, that's one reason the English used it in, wherever it was growing, I mean, it was that old seed, the Iceman that was up in the Stuller Alps, you know, they found a 5,000-year-old man.

He had a U-bow.

That's how I got my first, I think, three bows under my belt.

All English longbows from Pacific U with Jamie.

And then I learned that near my farm here north of Victoria, there was another amazing bowyer.

I didn't know where he was.