Boar Hunting with the Atlatl 

Love the hard dedication u put into the hunt, you explain everything in detail to! Thanks for sharing.

It would bee cool to see you do a scandinavian primitive hunting wintertime on skis, like they did thousands of years ago

Great video. Actually seeing HOW primitive man hunted, makes so many things clear about why the bow was a step up etc etc. Without seeing it for real NOBODY would understand just exactly how ancient man did it. Cool stuff.

My professor has tried to give us the basics of hunter-gather technology. This video is great, thank you for sharing..

You are going te be messing with Archaeologists they are going to be finding arrow heads from you for years

Very cool. God, I lived in a wooded area I Pennsylvania for one year doing primitive living skills. Best year of my life. I had permission to hunt with bow & Flint tipped arrows. However, never hunted with the atlatl . Built shelter, learned tracking signs, cordage, fire starting, tanning hides & bow making. I was with a fellow who was 95% Cherokee & grew up with his father who was a hunting & tracking guide in the Carolinas. I knew flint knapping & he taught me a lot of the rest. I failed terribly at shelter building LoL. Got to do it again!

Awesome video. This is the type of subject that begs for a time machine so we could answer a lot of essentially un-knowable questions. How did they carry several spears and an atlatl without clacking and clunking as they moved, did they carry extra foreshafts with points affixed and if so how. Did they hunt from trees and blinds and use cordage snares as you mentioned. Experimental archaeology is fun and educational but often brings on more questions than it answers. Keep up the excellent work!!!

this was another great video just how the spear flies is truly amazing i have made my own stone age toolkit but it is no were near as detailed as this great video keep up the good work

Interesting to see these 'wild' invasive pigs behave differently, depending on region, crossbreeds, etc. Where I live, Eurasian wild boar are native and believe me, they attack when threatened. Of course they are genetically different from the animals depicted and live in a different environment. I do enjoy your hunts. Greetings. So a tip for people hunting Eurasian wild boar; don't miss.

That’s badass dude. You’re a real hunter don’t care what anybody says

I love atlatle hunting I've been making my own and practice daily. I would love to hunt hogs with mine haven't gotten a chance yet but very soon plan too. I have many kills on video over 300 with my dogs all hogs taken with a knife. Love watching your videos. Good job man. Thank you

I love your hunting videos, all game harvest is harder than it looks👍🏻

Great job Ryan! I can appreciate how very difficult that was. I like your hypothesis that the atl atl may have been more useful when used in conjunction with snares or immobilized game rather than for spot and stalk. The motion required to send the dart to the target is a huge disadvantage for the hunter. What an accomplishment when it happens! is not an ideal wmore useful

Just found your channel recently. I live in Central Oregon and so much obsidian in the area. I can not imagine the challenges to hunt big game in the high desert. Just so much wide open spaces and no cover. Keep up the good work and I will continue to watch your videos.

Thank you so much for your videos, your tutorials have helped me build and use Atlatls for target practice. I know you are very busy, but I was hoping you might comment or provide information on how to build the removable Atlatl dart tips. The ones I have built keep splitting my darts when they hit the target. Thank you so much and I greatly appreciate the knowledge you share.

Great job. Don't forget that ancient man hunted in party's. Increasing the odds for a kill.

Good work it was hard won but that was one of the better open field stalks I've ever seen good job

So crazy that the ad before this video was for an intelligent toilet lol

Was chatting with a fella few day ago. Interesting thing in re remarks on how archaeo? native Americans, actually, hunted deer and/or bear. Talked about how his gramma killed deer using saltblock and snare. He was 67. Personally, found his remarks, and yours, about harvesting game fascinating

I imagine traditionally people would be hunting in groups. I would be curious to see how long a hunt would take if you had three or four people armed with Atlatls.

There's no archer's paradox with an atlatl. I get what you're trying to say, but it's not the right term for it. Otherwise, it's 110% an A++ video bud. Amazing to see this still being used in it's true historical form.

How viable would it be to hunt with it at relatively large distance - 50 metres or so? Atlatl dart should still have plenty of energy at that point.

how do you aim with your bow i see you pull it back like half way and then pull back all the way when you shot how do you aim like that

Love these vids always keep making them

Please do more archery builds or hunts

Can't imagine having to hunt whitetail like this back prehistory. They would jump the spear every damn time

You professional hunting and very good man thanks for entertainment good luck

You did it. Nice job 👍

archeologists could learn a lot from your channel

That was a awesome video very much enjoyed it thank👍👍

primitive. that´s indeed all I have in mind, seeing you hunting animals unnecessarily excruciating.

That is so fuckin’ cool.

Outstanding shot there good video

Respect to you and to the boar, may it rest in peace, and I hope you enjoyed its meat. Thanks for the vid, it was pretty great to see this hunting method.

Finally a hunting video

I live in BC and want to start napping but I can't find any stones that would work I've done some reading and can't find anything about native napping either do you know if there are any stone I can use in my area

My assumption is the atlatl would've been much more affective with much larger more abundant megafauna back in the day

This channel is awesome

This hunting method is like a metaphor for being an incel. After hours and hours of frustrating stalks, you shoot your shot and critically fail, breaking your tip in the process. Eventually, you spear a hairy pig.

watched this is slow motion. It was the infamous rear paradox hitting the brush, damn shame.

Does any one know a good place to buy hardwood from because I can’t find anywhere

Thank you for the video, this was fascinating.. What are your thoughts of using the atlat in conjunction with primitive camo, such as deer pelts and fake antlers ? Do you think it would increase your chances? Not on public land of course 😅 Keep up the good job 😉👍

I can not making a arrowhead for standard stone

Very nice video may I say. I have an idea for a video, can you make a ”prehistoric style” crossbow and maby hunt rabbit or birds with it. There are a simple design that isnt that hard to make found in Skåne Sweden from a peasant rebbelion ca 1500s and it uses a pin to push the string over the edge shooting the arrow Edit: sorry I mean bolt

I would love to go hunting with you sometime you are so badass I've always wanted to make and hunt with an atlatl but unfortunately there isn't the right material in nature where I live to make one

cool

Cool video! See any deer around?

Looks killer and rewarding. Did you eat it?

What types of stone can be used as a substitute for flint?

do you always hunt in a yellow shirt?

You should try hunting with a sling (or a shepherds staff). You would probably have to squirrel hunt since they freeze up but i bet you could do it. You could also use a slingshot they aren’t primitive but it would definitely be entertaining content.

Are you English?

I didnt expext atlatl darts to be so long! I thought they were shorter...

Nice throw

Awesome

Could this kill a human?

Hey ryan I am looking to get into flint Knapping and want to know if abo tools or copper tools I think abo but I would love to hear your more educated opinion

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I love the vids keep up the good work!!! 👍🏽

Most ppl forget/ignore the fact that animals are pretty smart too... making hunting a difficult enterprise. LOTS of failure to gain proficiency.

I can’t imagine them killing a 20,000 pound Columbia. Mammoth with atlatl’s and Clovis points. Nevertheless, they did it. Had to be extremely dangerous and probably take hours. I can see this mammoth charging hunters looking like a porcupine with 20 darts stuck into it’s tough hide. Plus, pachyderms will often help each other to fight off predators, so other mammoths may have joined in. Using a steer for comparison, a 1,000 pound animal will produce roughly 400 pounds of beef. If the same ratio holds for a mammoth, a 20,000 pound specimen could yield 8,000 pounds of meat. Not to mention, paleo peoples would have ate mostly everything for nutrient/vitamin uptake they may have lacked in the environment. I personally believe that they understood preservation techniques such as smoking, salting, drying and freezing. I think it was too dangerous not too use preservation. It’s known they would also “meat cache” in cold ponds/lakes by submerging parts of the carcass underwater and use stones as weights to hold down the kill. This would preserve, tenderize and protect the kill from predation from other carnivores. That being said, I don’t believe they hunted all the megafauna of the late Pleistocene to extinction.

Tough work

You can say the same thing about using a gun to a bow..... Or a javelin to the adladle....

blow gun hunt and build please that would be awesome to watch and hear your comments on

You need to try not wearing shoes less noise more primitive feel an the look makes the viewer submerse themselves in this type of content

To each their own. Admire the dedication but when I hunt I want to dispatch the animal quickly. I just feel that this animal suffered way too much for my liking.

At that close of a range, you need to use your arm vs the atle

Y'all are nuts. One of them pigs comes back after you or turn and runs at you instead of away from you your going to have a bad day! I mean I respect what your are doing and all but by God be careful!

Hell yeah! Haha

do you think that they had beaters that would drive them to the hunters

Yes yes yes👏👏👏🖒🖒🖒

I hope there is a safety backup with shotgun or 7.62 NATO rifle. A pissed of wounded boar with spear in its side, is dangerous.

I bet using the atlatl your whole life, one would be as competent as an archer. They were probably better at making dart points too. Someone killed a cave bear with one of these things with a headshot.

YeeT

i can cope all day missing but i hat sitting and fishing coz u dont see what ur not catching

Ur so used to the bow ur missing shot with the atlatl

that's why most primitive hunters used poison on their javelins and arrows. Perfect shot placement is not always feasible, nor is coming that close to the prey. With poison you can hunt from great distances, no mater what part of the animal you hit it dies

I respect this type of hunting more than what we do nowadays... kinda urks me when I see fat people taking shots from like 6 feet away infront of a feeder in a blind

Imagine if he had a rifle. I get it but...

Great video man Couple of mistakes I gotta point out The wilderness is much more difficult to live in than Nature was Hunter Gatherers do controlled burns and build dams and all kinds of things that make the land better for them to live on and the other thing, why the hell would you spot/stalk with an atlatl? Atlatls are for using on Caribou the way you use a throwing club on birds Its meant for putting a large projectile 100 or 150 yrds down range, I mean 50ft is point blank for that thing I hate that word "Atlatl" its either a spear thrower or a children's toy, the heck is an Atlatl? Lol

He was ready for that porker to come out!🐷

So far you're too Misses for two I'd stick with a bow instead of the atlatl you tend to do better with a bow I would stick with a bow just saying God bless

I love what your doing but I’d probably carry a pistol to finish them off.

U need dogs

How many times did you just injure an animal? Guessing from this video that the people who actually hunted for their food using an atlatl would have probably had to practice for hours a day like archers used to have to, their would have been no point sending out hunters who the majority of the time just missed or maimed their prey, which would probably just die days later from infection and blood loss! As someone who hunts and eats their quarry I find this and most forms of bow hunting unethical in our era, there's just too much margin for error! Christ, even hunting with a modern riffle can result in undesirable outcomes on odd occasions, I see no need in increasing the chances of unnecessary suffering just for your self gratification, consign the thing to history or just use it on inanimate objects.

Why are you sneaking up on that hog? This pig is obviously familiar with humans (it is fed by humans) You are doing (theater) sneaking up on wild prey what you're actually hunting, but what you really! do is hunting for semi-domesticated pig that doesn't run away from people 🤥😕

What did you expect with yellow shirt?!

Devils killing another life...