Dude, it is wild how clever and resourceful Humans were before machines! Also Awesome to See a much more common type of hunting bow, the Shortbow, because Stalking was key, so you wanted power, you didn't need distance, and you wanted it to be packable on a long trek.
Especially with spot and stalk hunting in a forest environment, the long limbs of a longbow (and long arrows) can be a pain to maneuver around get caught on everything. I'm a big fan of short bows
Sir, THANK YOU! I have wanted a concise visual tutorial of this exact thing for YEARS. This is absolutely going to be one of my summer projects. Very excited for further installments!
I actually love Rocky Moubtain maple and canyon maple for making bows! Every tine I use it, it surprises me how much it acts like it wants to be a bow.
you can make a bow in 30 seconds out of a azlenut brench just attach a string done not very strong nor verry acurate but if you get uset to the archers paradox you can cmpensate it and hunt small gain made mine 4 month ago still works 4 the arrows i just used a straight brench and took ducktape 4 the stabilisation
You can also make a bow out of Horsetail, it’s a plant here in NC that looks like bamboo. I did it for my junior year project. I took three of them and bundled them together using fishing line and the bowstring. It wasn’t the clear plastic looking line, it was the threaded looking line. Forgot what it’s called. However to keep it natural you could use twine made of jute or hemp. It was a really fun project and really fun to shoot, also surprisingly simple. I uh also couldn’t bring it to school because it was a weapon… I was the only one who made a weapon
Thanks I saw ur arrow video a while ago and waited so long for u to post about bows since u explain the best for me personally thank you so much I loved all ur videos on tik tok and RU-vid thank you ❤❤❤
Honestly though, the hard part if you're out in a "survival situation" is the bow's *string* if you havent caught anything yet. But yeah there's a reason bows have been found everywhere on Earth at every time in human history, they just work
You likely picked a piece of wood that was just barely too dry. You want to remove the moisture in the wood after you’ve finished carving out the shape, granted you can still make adjustments after that process, you just need to be more gentle with it.
I do not understand, all of these professional bowyers on RU-vid say you can’t season a bow this quickly, and that it won’t last as an actual hunting bow? That the draw weight will decrease significantly?
Shame I live in a desert, the only dirt around is hard as can be and is mostly just sand, this also means that trees that don’t look like their from an alien planet are practically nonexistent
i sometimes wish i was close to a more sandy desert area as a bowyer from the pnw cause any wood you find is way more likely to have been dry for a while thus not requiring upwards of two years of seasoning as i regularly see recommended. also i often run low on sand paper but if youve got plenty of sand around and a piece of leather or something you can just put some sand on and sand down whatever on your bow. id recommend getting a board or two at your local lumber yard or hardware store and just learn the basics of making one its a lot of fun relaxing yet rewarding work.
I live up in Canada and was wondering what kind of maple to use, we have Manitoba and sugar maples, I think the Manitoba maple would work better so I wanted to know your thoughts
You should also mention how the length of the stave correlates to draw length. In my experience, you need at least 66 inches of length to achieve a 28" draw
I know this is a short, so a bit of summarization has been necessary. It has been my understanding that for the bow to be strong and durable you need to avoid cutting into deeper layers of the rings unless you plan on thinning the entire side of the bow to that layer. I has also been my understanding that the bow needs to be "trained" into flexibility, you cant just string it and call it good.
Why not rocks around fire? Always best to have fire rock circle set good example for fire safety Many young people see this may not have ur fire skills
