Blood, Bone and Stone: The story of Jack McKey, mountain man, maker of primitive weapons, and mystic

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  • @carolspencer6915
    @carolspencer6915 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hello to all.
    Thankyou for sharing your heart felt story.
    Inspirational to say the very least.
    💜

  • @wolfmoon3431
    @wolfmoon3431 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a beautiful documentary on the life's rendition of a beautiful soul. We do not have enough wise men left on this earth and Jack was certainly one of them🌠💞🌠

  • @Highlander.7
    @Highlander.7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Much love and blessings. Jack is a living legend

  • @dustymannjr3925
    @dustymannjr3925 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I loved the video. This is a beautiful story and thank you very much for bringing me along to listen to. Awesome job

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video. We miss Jack and his amazing skills.

  • @robertrymer3303
    @robertrymer3303 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wish I had half his knowledge. We need more people like him. Would love to sit talk and learn from him to teach my boys

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jack had a great desire to pass along what he had learned! I am sorry you didn’t get to learn directly from him.

  • @gregchewie3059
    @gregchewie3059 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The great spirit brought Jack back to earth for a second go round! Wisdom &great teachings so many have learned from him. Aho my brother.

  • @BigfootForestVanIsle
    @BigfootForestVanIsle ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Y'know that saying 'salt of the earth'? Yeh this guy.
    Love this incredible doc. 💖

  • @larryalexander4833
    @larryalexander4833 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very interesting story from many angles in Jack's life. Grew up and live in SC. Not Too far from Jacks Home town .Thanks for sharing.

  • @ockertvanzyl5340
    @ockertvanzyl5340 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful story with the emphasis on story .

  • @alancross2826
    @alancross2826 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A great teacher, lets hope those fortunate enough to spend time with him pass the knowledge on . Regards from the UK

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We have a series of videos of Jack taking about his creations. We will post those soon! Thanks for watching. Jack is gone from this earth, but I believe he is still paying attention to it!

    • @wolfmoon3431
      @wolfmoon3431 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@@thomasagrant It's sad to hear of Jack's passing. I am sure his deeply profound, beautiful and inspirational legacy will be weaved forever on our earth and hopefully his knowledge may continue to be shared with preceding generations
      🕊🌍🕊

  • @Jamesfranco1825
    @Jamesfranco1825 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wish this dude had a TH-cam channel back in the day

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He had some writings and we will post some other videos of Jack soon! Thanks for watching!

    • @Jamesfranco1825
      @Jamesfranco1825 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thomasagrant Nice. I could imagine watching Jack make all of that stuff on YT and loving every second of it.

  • @libertyrogueoutdoors7369
    @libertyrogueoutdoors7369 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I really enjoyed this. Great story and a great journey! All the best to Jack and his family. Thank you and look forward to more of your channel and work!

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for watching. We will post more of Jack’s talks in the coming days.

  • @normalove8116
    @normalove8116 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It would be great to see the DNA on this family to see what tribe they come from. Amazing man, and it sounds like the Lord has blessed his family. With skills to make it through this life. Thank God his son got to reconnect with his father. Thank you again for this beautiful story.

  • @davidpeightal4918
    @davidpeightal4918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for all the hard work and expense of this project. I never knew of these people until now. Bless you.

  • @donscottvansandt4139
    @donscottvansandt4139 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely awesome story!! This is what I practice... want so badly to meet and learn and teach like minded people of the human tribe...

  • @cabinstuff
    @cabinstuff ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great story!

  • @pedallinraw
    @pedallinraw ปีที่แล้ว

    Skills that will not be lost or forgotten 🙂👊🏻✌🏻

  • @TheHumanSynthesisProject
    @TheHumanSynthesisProject ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such a cool story, wish I could have known him. Great doc brother, looking forward to the next story you have for us

  • @brucebieber3692
    @brucebieber3692 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great job, very interesting video. Thanks for sharing with us..Met a fellow once in Elk county Pa. That makes At Latals then demonstrates and shares his passion for these early wepons. He set up targets for everyone from children to adults. Listening to him explain his collection to the adults and kids just kinda made time feel backed up a 1000 years. This man was in his 80's that spoke his hobby like he was 12 years old. So excited to pass on his knowledge to any and all that was listening. I just hope we do not lose the knowledge our ancestors passed on to us.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      You are so right! Jack would be happy to hear you say that!

  • @hanksbud2544
    @hanksbud2544 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a living dictionary this man is,

  • @Irish-eyes-793
    @Irish-eyes-793 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Good - Award winning documentary. The Bad - I am a Father and if someone was after me I would fight them because I need to be on this planet to protect my family. I think that raising your son/daughter would be priority one. I understand Jack was adopted and those scares never really heal. But I could never ever imagine leaving my Son. The Ugly - Abandonment.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Very perceptive! Thanks!

  • @justincase9463
    @justincase9463 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best to run this one through Don Shipley’s channel. He can dig out “classified operations” better than anyone.

  • @leemartin9579
    @leemartin9579 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Someone should help this man document some of his knowledge in a book. I would buy it immediately. As a bow hunter I have always wanted to learn to make my own primitive bow. I have traditional recurve, but would love to make my own out of Osage orange from the farm.

    • @58landman
      @58landman ปีที่แล้ว

      There is plenty of information on that task....just look for it.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When Jack made his sheep horn bows, there wasn't much information available about how to do it. But now people have published help online for those wanting to try it. It still is not easy however, and it took Jack a great deal of time to refine his bows. I hope others will try, then let us know how it went. Jack believes a well-made sheep horn bow could shoot 500 yards.

    • @ianfrancisledesma4431
      @ianfrancisledesma4431 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can most probably find a TH-cam video on how to do just that..the sheep horn bow is something else entirely.

  • @williamchristian2375
    @williamchristian2375 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful

  • @kevendrover2442
    @kevendrover2442 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a canadian please accept my apology from newfoundland and labrador

  • @kunobuje542
    @kunobuje542 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is absolutely where I wanna grow old.
    This old timer, is the last of its kind.
    Such a shame , kids these days will never know ,how spoiled they are..
    Salute from Denmark 🇩🇰

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was unique! But I hope not the last of his kind. Thanks for watching!

    • @kunobuje542
      @kunobuje542 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomasagrant we had an old timer like this in our Town called Blokhus.
      It my dad,we even have our own dialect.
      I speak it to but the rest of the family don't since they have moved on..

  • @Im_No_Expert_72
    @Im_No_Expert_72 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is great, thank you. I haven't even finished it yet, I'm kind of savoring it. I have to say my first thought about his mother is thank God he wasn't born in this day and age or she would have turned him into a damn female. God help us all

  • @whitebuffalo5977
    @whitebuffalo5977 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When your time comes my friend go with a grin ❤

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said. Thanks for watching!

  • @quickdeuce
    @quickdeuce ปีที่แล้ว +5

    No doubt about it,, Jack's knowledge and talent is incredible. The issues he went through at Canadian customs was most unfortunate BUT those rules are public knowledge. They were just doing their job even though it almost took Jack from this planet. All his life work was 'supposedly' destroyed by the border customs agents. One cannot help but wonder,, did they? or did they take those items for themselves? They knew what they were and they knew the work required to create them.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jack said he believed some of his work was hanging on the walls of people in the Canadian government. It made him angry, but he did everything he could to get it back. So he had to rebuild his collection late in life, and he did an amazing job of that.

    • @tibo5828
      @tibo5828 ปีที่แล้ว

      Every gov. system is inherintly corrupt. Because its sole purpose is to control people. Most people who end up working in that system become corrupt themselves. You will have better luck talking down a brown bear than dealing with them...

    • @zerofox7347
      @zerofox7347 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They say they’re just doing their job but the mistrust comes from the fact that it most often involves them taking something from you.

  • @mountainwoodsman8116
    @mountainwoodsman8116 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'd like to meet Hazen... I like the way he thinks, close to the Earth mother, primitively. Our culture is absolutely in trouble... Jack is right when he says, "take care of the earth, and it will take care of you"... humanity is doing a very poor job of it.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hazen is amazing and we are very lucky to have been there when he met Jack. It was like they spoke the same language!

  • @wakeoftheflood2
    @wakeoftheflood2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What an interesting fellow. The reincarnation of Wovoka?...I don't know about that one.

    • @jivanvasant
      @jivanvasant ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At the least, it would be nothing to be proud about. The bragging comes across like a desperate attempt to appear important.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jack certainly said some things that would be impossible to confirm. But I never saw Jack as a braggart. When spoke with his work, and he made incredible tools and weapons. If he sounds like he was trying to appear important, you should probably blame the director (me) for choosing those sound bites. I saw him as living a very humble life, but having the desire late in life to pass along what he knew. And he was willing during our years of working this project to speak extremely freely about anything and everything. Thanks for watching.

    • @jivanvasant
      @jivanvasant ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomasagrant Thanks for your clarification. What you said rings true. As I watched this video, I repeatedly wondered how the editor who obviously thought highly of Jack could make him sound less than humble and motivated only to share useful knowledge for posterity. I salute Jack for his generosity.

  • @johnbaenen5386
    @johnbaenen5386 ปีที่แล้ว

    If I only knew what he forgot I'd still be one smart cookie

  • @Appalachianlockdown
    @Appalachianlockdown ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow!

  • @Sm9tty
    @Sm9tty ปีที่แล้ว

    dang what was that 1st song?

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      Most of the music is by Rvshvd, now an artist in Nashville. He was a student when he worked on the music for this film.

  • @spectermad9180
    @spectermad9180 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe you as a kid I would know things and how to make things...like they did in the Indians days...its was weird I know how to make fire Knives and everything's even Bricks with straw...I would do things others didn't know how to do and i was a kid about 7 but I knew things...know 54 yrs old but i collect knives in tomahawks...its in my Blood...

  • @travisbreeden9393
    @travisbreeden9393 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why can’t any of these songs be found?

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      The music is by Rvshvd, who wrote is for the film while he was a student at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

  • @maryanngrant9489
    @maryanngrant9489 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would have liked to say goodbye to Jack.

  • @iamearthbornami
    @iamearthbornami ปีที่แล้ว

    that's disgusting burning the Eagle feather.Heartbreaking....the jealous spitefull fools

  • @paulwall5706
    @paulwall5706 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍👍🌅🌺🙏

  • @billymartinaswell1779
    @billymartinaswell1779 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s just like, your opinion man. End of subject.

  • @terrytowelling1807
    @terrytowelling1807 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everyone has different ways of showing love for their children. Jack's was disappearing for 35 years then apologising and expressing sentimental feelings of regret .... nothing wrong with that

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think Jack knew there was something wrong with leaving his son, but he felt he had no choice. And I choose not to judge him -- just to tell his story. It was up to his son to judge, and Jay Dowdy was incredibly kind to Jack, even after all those years. I appreciate your comment, and Jack would, too. Thanks for watching!

    • @terrytowelling1807
      @terrytowelling1807 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thomasagrant Very well made documentary Tom, well done

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@terrytowelling1807 thank you very much!

  • @TheCfrazier
    @TheCfrazier ปีที่แล้ว

    #GaBoy

  • @robertherronii4773
    @robertherronii4773 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why do all these people sound like they're from South Carolina? I've been to Montana and People don't sound like this

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      Jack is from South Georgia, as are some of his friends in the film.

  • @robertmclean9737
    @robertmclean9737 ปีที่แล้ว

    Throws a Atl Atl like a Squaw.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sadly, Jack was not in the best of shape when we shot him throwing the atlatl. But we know that 10 years earlier he taught the use of the atlatl, and that he once killed an elk with an atlatl in Idaho. Too bad he grew old and lost that strength before we could record it.

    • @robertmclean9737
      @robertmclean9737 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomasagrant Strength had Nothing to do with it, the Design was wrong especially the Dart. Stacked so bad that it hit the Target Flat, didn't hardly stick. After I saw that I didn't watch the Rest. If he could make a Birch Bark Canoe that would really be something. Thanks for the Reply!

    • @KenneyCmusic
      @KenneyCmusic ปีที่แล้ว

      Squaw??? Really?

    • @robertmclean9737
      @robertmclean9737 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KenneyCmusic Do you throw One?

    • @mommytsunami
      @mommytsunami ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robert, you’ve managed to be sexist, racist, and arguably ageist all in one go. No one gives a shit how well you can throw an atl atl. You’ve got other skills that need attention.

  • @louboyish
    @louboyish ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A man who likes to play cowboy and then later Indian. So what? Every boy goes through that phase. But when you grow up, you assume responsibility and you take care of your kids. Why did Jack leave his boy? He is not someone I would emulate. Thise primitive skills are not needed anymore. People need to stop romanticizing these skills and weapons. Kids of today need to learn math, physics and chemistry. I am 78 years old now and I helped design microprocessors while working for Intel Corp. Those chips are being used now by millions of people world wide. This is the world we live in now. We don't live in the forest just surviving.

    • @sulevisydanmaa9981
      @sulevisydanmaa9981 ปีที่แล้ว

      ONE EMP and : pppppppssssshhhhhhh ...... enter stoneage, except 4 the so-called "elite" in DUMBs, in Davos ...in the meantime. Pr3pping been in style way bef OPERATION COVID. Peace.

    • @Irish-eyes-793
      @Irish-eyes-793 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree, walking away from his 3 or 4 year old son was pathetic. Responsibility, yes sir!

  • @leemedd8189
    @leemedd8189 ปีที่แล้ว

    The content is very interesting, how ever the choice of music and the volume of music means every time the music plays i have to turn down the volume, when it stops i have to turn it up!
    So its not a enjoyable experience to watch.
    I can't watch any more.
    Perhaps some one with more maturity experience and ????
    Would of been a more popular choice.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      This was completed, in large part, by students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Most of the music is also by a student at ABAC, who goes by the name Rvshvd as a professional. He has been become quite popular in Nashville, but, of course, music is always a matter of taste. I am sorry it did not please you.

    • @DrewishBear
      @DrewishBear ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thomasagrant don’t listen to these fuckass haters man. Awesome documentary and very well done 👍🏽

    • @larrykillebrew2675
      @larrykillebrew2675 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I loved the music, content, videography, everything. I wish I’d have got to meet him.

  • @Jess-rr5nj
    @Jess-rr5nj ปีที่แล้ว +3

    coon peckers in the hat tell me that boy made the shine too!! haha

    • @rubenmorgan5456
      @rubenmorgan5456 ปีที่แล้ว

      the first thing i saw was the coon dick. most would not know.

    • @thomasagrant
      @thomasagrant  ปีที่แล้ว

      Good you recognized that! I think they may be otter penis bones, based on what Jack said, but I'm not the expert.

    • @TJHutchExotics
      @TJHutchExotics ปีที่แล้ว

      I noticed those and it gave me a chuckle. Amazing man