Primitive BowHunting Bison. The Secrets and Science of Primitive Archery 

Thank you very much. I greatly appreciate that.

@@huntprimitive9918 you’re welcome brother keep up the good work I’m looking forward to the next video.

thanks very much. I think it's just time to start giving people that perspective since so many people are disconnected from nature and think there are little deer families that live in little deer houses and love each other for 60 years

100% agreed. I will go even further: the predator (coyote or human) actually makes life BETTER for the prey (bison, deer, etc). It just turns out that wild animals with no predators mostly all die by processes that incur much longer periods of suffering (either starvation and/or disease). If you just take away predation, any animal species will quickly reproduce to a point were available resources (food) start limiting their population growth. Any wild animal species in such a case scenario (population stable) are in a position in which 1 animal dies on average for each newborn, and therefore the pouplation as a whole is bound to be suffering of an enormous "hunger stress" for almost all individuals. That is the true reality of a overly fantasized wild animal life without predation. In a healthy ecosystem without prey population decline, extant predators are guaranteed to be helping aleviate the hunger stress that the envyronment poses on individuals. Councious hunters that know and respect this fact by hunting animals of non-threated populations are definitely doing more good overall to animal welfare than harm, even if individual animals are killed in the process. That is just the way nature works.

Thank you for the kind words and for following along!

Nice man

I love your channel man you make some great content

awesome, I am really glad to hear that. Best of luck hunting!

I am subscribed to your channel and look forward to each video. When you take your first deer with a bow, firearm hunting will loose some of its appeal. I have been taking deer with a bow in Minnetrista, and Plymouth for over 50 years.

@@NORTH02 He shot trap on our team at Watertown. He shot a 25 on his 80th Birthday two or three years ago. Are you a member at the Mtka. Sportsmen?

yup, I understand that perfectly. I truly expected this to be a 1-2 shot ordeal based on other experiences. We were all pretty amazed even after having a few other bison under our belt. It was a tough one for sure but nothing else to do in this situation but keep after it until the job is done

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@@huntprimitive9918 Ryan, your book arrived today. It is excellent.

yes, without a doubt! thank you very much

much appreciated. thanks for following along!

thanks very much for the well thought out response. much appreciated

Thanks Terry. Thanks for following along and glad you enjoyed it!

thank you very much Craig

thanks very much. It's edited and ready to go at 9pm tuesday. It ought to be a good one

There have been a couple people that have used my videos to get state laws changed, so hopefully if folks take this book and highlight important sections and make their case, it might get voted in in more states

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that's definitely the hope! and in a couple years I hope to add another hundred or more pages

great information there. thanks very much!

thanks much and thanks for following along!

Thanks Austin, I appreciate it

Thanks very much! I appreciate you following along with my channel for so long

thank you !

thanks very much. Best of luck on your hunts!

Yeah they are just super tough. One guy was adamant that we wouldn't be able to kill one with the atlatl because he's seen them take a lot of arrows

@@huntprimitive9918 The atlatl kill was impressive. Can you even imagine a mammoth? I gotta think they used the terrain for that. Edges of river deltas, swamps etc. Muddy sticky places.

thanks very much. It's all ready to go live This Tuesday at 9pm also. It ought to be a good one for those not too squeamish

Thank you very much!

thanks much. I have often thought about africa but I am so far removed from it that I wouldn't know what to expect going into an african hunt. I actually talk about Dr. Ashby's work in the book because its both good information and relevant in some cases, but out of context with stone projectiles. I tried really hard to distinguish between the 2 studies

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thanks very much. Yeah you would probably have to shoot it a few times with solids... but I bet a 45lc or 44 mag would do just fine overall

Thanks. I think that video will likely be more entertaining and useful in the long run than this one!

thank you!

Thank you very much!

much appreciated. Thanks for following along. Happy hunting

thanks very much. This bow is about 61# @ 24" . In the book we actually have a whole chapter with close 30 deer/hog kills that are documented in a very similar way so you'll definitely enjoy that.

thanks very much. Best of luck hunting!

thanks very much

Thank you very much David

thanks very much. I think we'll be alright because I lean towards the educational side of things so thus far RU-vid has been lenient towards me.... the next video coming on tuesday will likely get me slapped on the hand though because it's a full breakdown of the bison with stone tools

So Excited For Tuesday Thanks 🔥

excellent, thanks very much. Hope you enjoy it!

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thanks man, I appreciate it

thanks man, I appreciate it. Good luck this year

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thanks Lance, much appreciated

thank you very much

Yep, its been documented that indians turned their buffalo into pincushions. Its gotta lose a lot of blood before it expires, and the best way for us to do that was lots of holes

Thanks very much!. Yeah they are just unbelievably resilient

It's just my shooting style and how I lean into it. It's just a natural stance for me and nothing intentional. Shoot however you feel most comfortable. Good luck hunting!

that's actually something I probably will do at some point. I don't film as much with the flintlock anymore, but making powder and shot for a video is likely going to happen

yeah they are just crazy tough. Out of all the animals I have shot over the years, this one was by far the toughest

I explained those in the video... just inconsequential hits due to particular scenarios... but it's in the video and explained well in the book as well

thanks very much. There is a link to the book in the description, or you can find it on www.huntprimitive.com there is a link on the home page as well

no i haven't seen it. thank you very much

I am not a big fan of TV shows and their many behind the scenes restrictions, plus it's way too hard to close down the shop for that long when so many customers rely on me to get their gear built and shipped. I don't foresee any TV in my future unless I am a producer... but never say never

Not sure why that would be other than a generic glitch between computers. If you shoot an Email to huntprimitive@gmail.com Kelly in the office will get you squared away, thank you

Hi there. There is an option for an email PDF or if you want to shoot me your address I can get you a shipping quote to send to Australia. There are some places we can't ship to but so far Australia is still good. 👍

@@kellygill6255 no

No worries, Kelly is my wife. She handles all the office stuff and international quotes

No this would be for WW4

It is actually the opposite. The Wood Bison (Bison bison athabascae) ranged up in northern North America, from Alaska over into the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alberta, with a small leg going down into northern Idaho or Montana. That's as far south as they got. The Plains Bison (Bison bison bison) overlapped up into Canada, but were the bison which spread through much of the contigual United States North American land mass, including down into the Florida panhandle. In a search engine you could try writing, "bison range map".

@@josephnebeker7976 Thanks, I will do that.

@@josephnebeker7976 I’ve always thought, because I read about it years ago that in the Appalachia and smoky mountains, like WV and Tennessee that we had the woods bison. Also, I thought they were extinct. Learn a lot from the comment sections lol, thanks guys, I’m going to go do some googling about Buffalo

They hunted bison for at least 13,000 years before the Spanish reintroduced the horse to the Americas, and for the first half of that, they didn’t have the bow and arrow. I’d say the toughest free range hunting was on foot with atlatl.

@@shanek6582 or with a spear and driving over cliffs

Sometimes we get great angles and sometimes it doesn't work out. Normally lately I have been using a gopro so we tend to get more in line shots. I wanted to be able to totally focus on the shot rather than also a camera so we went with oldschool filming. I wished we could have gotten some better views, it was just really thick around there and the bison were surprisingly very spooky so we had to keep well hidden. But in the end, the data collection and also the total breakdown with stone tools were more important to me overall than the kills shots. Maybe next time we will get some clearer shots

Such good steaks too. I wanted a younger one like this because I knew the meat would be epic. I think I got him about a year before he started getting rank

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@@Texo_McKevo That is a scammers account. I reported it. you can as well if you would like. thank you

@@huntprimitive9918 same here

@@huntprimitive9918 I already have

It hit that palm frond.. but it sure still killed it.

Not really concerned with your thoughts on it. Why even watch or comment if you don't like it? That's really the only thing that's nonsense. I was pretty clear in the video that it was open to do with the data what you want. If you don't want to do it, that's fine... what do you want me to do?" apologize to you...lol?? I'd do it again tomorrow no questions asked because the data we got was invaluable regardless of how you feel about it... also I'd like you to know that in a survival situation.. I would eat someone like you first.

Haha go sit down snowflake, go look at how you get majority of your meat at the market.

I guess you didn't watch the video to the end.

28:45 bub.

@@josephnebeker7976 bunch of BS rationalizations. “I’ve seen it take multiple rifle shots to take down a bison” is anecdotal DRIVEL. Growing up I never understood why people hated hippies so much. Now I sure do.

@@veteranironoutdoors8320 meaningless anecdotal hippy drivel. Inhumane 100%. Your hippy virtue signaling doesn’t change that. This is 100% ego-driven:

So, you're saying you took a bison down with a 30-6 in one shot, didn't cause the animal any pain, and were "humane" about it? Actually you are the one spouting the nonsensical drivel. Go do some research. It's not easy to take a bison down, period. If you're so worried about being humane, don't hunt at all. But don't go condemning other people just because you don't like it. That's not your right.