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Smoke Signals Jan/Feb 2012
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CHIEF FACTOR'S REPORT
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JACK SWALLOW |
NOTE Relatively new to buckskinning. I have an extensive back round in hunting, backpacking, and survival skills. I am proud to be a docent at San Juan Bautista State Park. The Mission and Park are host to thousands of school kids annually. For the school year of 2009 I got extremely lucky and some how made it through the tests and interviews and became a Park aid (got paid) to put on my buckskins and torment grammar school students. In the spring several of us work at Roaring camp near Scots Vallie California. We spend four days demonstrating the skills that our predecessor needed to flourish in the wilderness Such as, setting beaver traps under water and why, loading and firing muzzle loading guns, and starting fire with flint and steel or a burning glass. In addition to this we the Three Pines Group do living history the first Saturday of every month at the San Juan Bautista State Historic Park. In the month of October we do The Boy Scout PAC Sky Rendezvous near Bolder creek California where I teach primitive archery to scouts. Finally Last fall I was the Booshway for our Encampment of the Three Pines Mountain men in central California. My camp Name is Captain Jack.
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