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Johan Smit Boë is terug
Deur Rean Steenkamp
Een van die beste vervaardigers van tradisionele boë, Johan Smit, het weer volstoom begin boë bou. Johan bou blitsige gekurfde boë en langboë wat pragtig ontwerp en afgewerk word uit 'n verskeidenheid houtsoorte. Johan het die boogbouery vir 'n wyle afgeskaal nadat hy kitare begin bou het, maar is nou weer in volle gang met al sy bekende modelle, asook 'n nuwe korter opvou gekurfde boog (take-down recurve). Johan se boë is bekend daarvoor dat hulle blitsig skiet, geen handskok het nie en baie mooi afgewerk is.
Johan Smit
Vir meer inligting bel Johan Smit by 079 874 7207 of 012 653 1041.
About the Author
Rean Steenkamp
Rean Steenkamp, editor and owner of Africa’s Bowhunter magazine, is an enthusiastic traditional archer and bowhunter. He started hunting with a longbow in 1997 and has since bagged many African plains game with traditional bows, compound and black powder rifles. He also dabbled in bow building and published a bowhunting book titled “Let loose the arrow!”
Rean started his career in journalism in 1984 at a newspaper in Pretoria, South Africa. He interrupted his career at the end of 1991 when he joined the 37th weather team expedition to Gough Island, where he worked for 14 months as the communicator. The team consisted of only seven people living in isolation on the seven by 16 km island. Rean started the Africa’s Bowhunter magazine in 2000 while working as editor for the Game and Hunt magazine.
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