Rabbit Hunting with Primitive Bow and Arrow 

My favorite comments are "I hope you ate them" "You better eat these and not just waste them". Those that write those comments clearly don't watch the video or they would have seen that I eat them...of course I do. That is the whole point of hunting... However I kinda think that the offended people would actually prefer to assume that I don't eat them so they can justify their hate for me easier..lol

It’s amazing how accurate he is with a primitive bow. Pure skill

"Shhhhhh.... Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits."

he's doing the best hunting videos I've ever seen

Not what expect when i hear "I'm gonna pull out a blunt" hehe.

I enjoy watching small game primitive hunting more than big game I think haha

Good hunter, quick kill, and respectful never taking risky shots. I was surprised you could get so close to them without them running away.

Awesome shooting Ryan. It’s also great to hear the next generation of traditional bow hunting in the background of a video too. Keep it up, we really appreciate everything you do for the primitive and traditional bow hunting community.

👏👏👏 You are not only a good hunter, but an artist in bow and arrow making, reviving primitive skills and connecting us to our ancestors.

Man, I never get bored from your videos.

Great video and great tips, I recently hunted rabbits with a primitive bow and arrows with flintknaped arrowheads, all thanks to videos from your channel. Thanks brother!

This brings back memories. I started hunting rabbits in1960 with a 30# target recurve and port Oxford arrows. By 1968 I used a 45# Bear recurve on pheasants on the wing🎯 2020 and still sending arrows into space.

Amazingly informative video, thanks so much for making it! I just purchased a primitive bow to go small game/rabbit hunting.

Funny that this got posted today, I was having a discussion with my dad about rabbits since we have a lot around.

You're awesome with that bow. Loved this hunt

Great video! I like the fact that you went over your butchering techniques as well as the hunt.

The flank meat is perfect for slow cooking in lard. First you salt cure it (salt, sugar, and whatever spices you want) for 24hrs, then rinse and wipe it, season it and toss it in the pot in preheated lard. You want the lard to be just barely simmering. Cook for 2-4hrs and it's AMAZING. I raised rabbit for meat and I'd save up 10 or so (you can freeze them until you have enough) and then cook like this. I call it 'anything' meat because you can literally put it in anything as a filler. Even more than you can chicken lol. Alfredo, burritos, literally anything you'd use a meat filler in. Awesome video man! Thanks for sharing.

awesome bow skills and thanks for taking the time to make the video

Great job Ryan, you are an amazing primitive Spot and stalk Hunter and the best Primitive Bowyer. I love your videos!

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That's amazing Ryan ! As educating as ever👍👍

YESSS, this is my kind of video. thank you for the upload!

This is really great stuff! I'm getting into bow hunting (recurve) and am interested in small game harvesting, specifically rabbit because it's delicious! Thank you for this video!

Beware of that first rabbit that ran off with the arrow thru the lungs, he's so tough he might beat the holy living crap outta you.

Very good shooting. I don't hunt with a bow anymore and I have not built one in many years. I miss it. The last rabbit I took with a bow was in El Paso in 1993. I was shooting a Martin recurve. It is good to see the return to instinctive shooting. There was a while there when I thought the skill would be lost in the western world. Subbed.

Just ate a pan seared wild rabbit yesterday. I shot it with my recurve. First game taken by me with that bow. Pretty delicious and my kids absolutely loved it! Now I am hooked and constantly on the hunt for more of these delicious little creatures!

My people use the rabbit skins for blankets when sewed together in a way, and used to pretty some stuff up. Like, my quiver is made from a yucca stock and we use the skins to cover it to make it look pretty and soft. We also use them to silence our bows

Great content, can't get enough!

It seems I just found the best hunting channel so far.

I just came across this video and it is really entertaining. You are one skilled man, keep it up!

Great video! Small game hunting with the bow is one of my favorites.👍👍

Love hearing your child in the background and hearing how you interact with him.

As always, great video, good hunt. I'll have to try that this year

Your marksmanship is awsome!

Man Ryan, I'm more and more jealous the more videos I'm watching of you. In Germany we even can't go hunting with an bow, all what's left for me is shooting practice at straw targets. As always you've got great content and on the top you showed how to cook it. Thanks for letting us partake.

YES! I love small game hunts! EDIT: I know you showed all you need is a blunt point, but maybe you can use small game to test early projectile points, like small flakes that were just hafted with glue and the micro blades that were glued to the side of the shaft.

Good stuff, as always, ryan 👊

You put out awesome content Ryan!

Ryan Jesus Christ man back to back to back great videos

awsome as always! I wish I could go in of those hunts with you!

The arrows hitting the rabbits just sounds beautiful.

This channel needs more subs ! Great video

Thanks for another great video.

another great video very helpful and inspirational especially because i have a lot of rabbits near me to hunt

Wow, you filmed this in South Florida? I'm a South Floridian and I made my own bow (albeit not as good as that one), and I've been wanting to try hunting using it or a new bow. I'm glad I found this channel!

is hunting something big you plan in advance, or do just go out and hunt when you feel like it?

Man that bow and arrow is powerful you can hear at the sound it's like a whip bro. AHHAHA loved it i hope i can do this to

It's sad commentary that you get age restrictions on a wholesome and natural activity. In addition, I've never seen you be disrespectful of the animals you harvest, and I can't say that about plenty of on-air shows.

Awesome content! Love rabbit stew. If you guys ever come back north to Utah/Idaho area and need an extra camera let me know!

That's crazy how thick they are great shot Man

Wish there was this many rabbits around up north. Jeez wow.

That's how I live in Kentucky, country boy can survive. Great video

This is awesome love the vids

that was some impressive work with that bow.

Haha the father and son interaction was so wholesome. :)

Yo man i love you. Best hunter i ever seen. Keep hunting. Keep uploading videos, good luck brother

This is great a great video thanks Ryan. I love rabbit and hope to get my daughter involved in harvesting meat and fresh veggies from the garden. We live in fast past world, but it is not hard to slow down and appreciate Earth.

I really enjoy your videos I'm on a mission to watch them all

wow! there is plenty of rabbits around dude. you are lucky. Good video.

Great hunting once again

Great Video!!

Very impressive lad, keep it up!

Ryan, can you make a video on how to make an armguard? like...a medieval one, i know your videos are stone age inspired but i would really aprecciate if you do so, because i cant find anything on youtube on how to make one. Also, amazing instructive video, keep it going dude!.

I have subscribed ur channel because I love hunting like u

You should do a cooking video, was hoping what this was! Great video, couldn’t believe how many rabbits there was on that property! I’m guessing you was the first person to kill rabbits off that piece of property in a long time!👍👍

Very informative video.

where in south florida do you go for rabbit? I live in Miami. I know they tend to gather in the sugar can fields around Lake Okeechobee

Thanks for your video! I want to go on a long hike trip (for 5 days or longer) and during that I need food and I wasn't sure how to hunt rabbits (or deers) with a bow

Wooo you put some wicked shots on them rabbits

Excelent video, y I am a fan from Spain 💪

Thank you for the primitive.

So good with a bow man love this guy

You're a braver man than me. I love my barebow but there's enough luck involved in hunting as it is 😅

I love your videos very good

that was funny as crap when ur kid came in thanks for the rabbit hunt i cant say thank u enough

OMG THATS SO NICE. I want more videos pls

I think alot of people think that animals are born on a plastic tray nice video people need to connect with meat in this way

Great video. Love rabbit in a crock pot with 2 cans of creme of mushroom soup and a little salt and pepper.

You make the best videos I'm watching all of them will I'm stuck in my house

The sound of blunts smacking them is brutal lol. Super quick kill tho. Way better than any other death they would’ve had.

Is it bad I like your videos before I even watch them?

In regards to the calf meat, could you say you've gone down that rabbit hole?

Top demais vídeo, motivo de alegria muito grande partilhar deste momento com você, tamos juntos Irmão 👍🙏👊

Super, thank you for sharing.

1:54 Well you just got yourself a new sub!

Those bones will make a great stock if you brown them well and then simmer them until the meat falls off the bones. Strain every thing through a fine mesh strainer and discard the bones etc. then make a roux and add the broth to the roux! That gravy is excellent over rice, potatoes or my favorite over baked sweet potatoes!

As a kid I would take my aluminum shafts that split at the end and cut them off then glue a 38 special case onto the end for use on rabbits and squirrels and birds. Another bonus was the fact that the flat point flipped the arrow over and layed it on top the grass instead of burrying under to be lost forever with field points.

Great Video. I don't know if your cotton tails are the same as UK rabbits but if they are I would always advise pressing the pee from them as soon as you have killed them as it can and usually does taint the meat.. I usually gut them as well and let nature have some of the spoils of the hunt for good luck. Keep it up. From Lancashire in the UK.

That's badass dude.👍

What pound is that bow?

Nice shooting!

that is amazing, good shooting

Great video! Got one where you butcher with stone tools?

Blunts are nice, but do you ever use bird points for that size small game?

Very good video! What was thepoundag of the bow?

Thanks for teaching

Cool, don't have many rabbits up here in Ohio, what wood is the best for making a bow as a beginner? I have a big supply of osage, and hickory.

Maybe a stupid question, but when you say blunts, is it completely blunt or is it sharpened at the tip rather that a separate point?

Great job Looks like theres Lots of rabbits there!

Cant argue with results but where is your anchor point? I shoot instinctive too, with some minor differences, but if I dont hit an anchor I'm all over the place.