Skinning and Butchering a Bison with Stone age tools 

yup without a doubt. Incredibly tough to handle that kinda workload

A Namibian Bushman was once asked 'what is the most important skill a hunter can have? "Hunger" was his reply.

thanks very much. Yes, it definitely looks like many early bison hunters were nomadic or semi-nomadic

Amazing to see it with such large game

thank you very much!

That ain’t the way you skin a Buffalo or any game animal for that matter you don’t start in the middle of the back

@@WRLDWYSE I do believe you may have missed the entire point of the video, the channel, and Ryan’s work.

That literally reads as the formula for domestication, I have noted this as a theoretical reason for the domestication of dogs. On a timeline we can trace cats and pigs back about 10,000 yrs, makes sense, cats protect grains from rats etc, pigs are good food, smart and can literally grow on food inedible to humans, aka rotten fruit or grains, grass and even minerals from dirt. But dogs were at least 20 to 40,000 years ago, my theory is they were welcome and thrown scraps as they would likely surround the kill site, this could be advantageous in the event of other animals trying to scavenge the kill, EG; Patient dogs are better than an aggressive bear, and a predator such as a bear would be less likely to attempt to steal a kill from a site full of both humans and surrounded by a pack of wolves.

Not to mention the wolf/dogs would pick up on a bear coming into the kill and could alert the humans.

You had your weapons if one came into range on one of my kills I would have to defend it

@@jaymannewell the theory is possible but then to Thay could have been raising wolf pups as probable food to and the weomen and kids got attached to them and adopted them the puppy would inprent on the tribe and see them as members of the family

This is actually more common than people think today, Many cultural groups are well documented as matriarchal societies, in some places today women are ranked by lineage and men must perform to acquire status, I worked in an indigenous community where the womens council decided who went on a hunt and when, it is considered a privilege to be able to go hunting just to give your spoils to the head matriarch. Historically evidence suggests the same of many European tribes pre christianity.

I agree all the way around. luckily it wasn't restricted..or hasn't been yet anyways. but they definitely cut monetization. That doesn't bother me much though since I don't do these videos for the money. I am just glad folks get to watch it if they want to. thanks for following along

Brazilian fishermen in Jangada sailboats mention that RU-vid commenters do not want to see fish blood. Kind of hard to keep off film when someone is trying to land a five foot long toothy fish onto an eight foot sailboat!

thanks man. It's a lot of fun as well once you see how will it all truly works.

Thank you very much for following along for so long!

haha.. Joe is an animal for sure. I had to delete half the stuff he said and did..hahaha

@@huntprimitive9918 oh dude he keeps ya laughing......can't wait to see that glass backed bow......you do good work.....great content on the videos too!!

thank you very much. Very glad you enjoyed it!

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without a doubt. thanks very much

thanks much for following along and best of luck on your hunts!

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it' sometimes hard to convince yourself to use stone when high carbon is so nearby. I am glad we stuck it out because it really wasn't much different overall.

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thanks very much. Very glad you enjoyed it

thanks very much. I would love to have a full tribe of folks next time to break everything down completely. We did bring a lot home and processed out legs, sinew, bone etc. I have that stuff for another video in the future

@@huntprimitive9918 Thanks Ryan, your work is incredibly invaluable.

excellent. thanks much and hope you enjoy!

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excellent! thanks very much for coming over and to Ben for sending you this way

thanks very much. On thing I am quite sure of it that most modern hunters don't want me anywhere near their podcasts or videos. Their livelihood is predicated on selling the latest and greatest gear and I run around doing the same stuff with sticks, rocks, and no camo. I am plutonium to folks like that

we definitely saved a lot of resources for future projects and videos. We did not sharpen at all during the process but by the end they surely needed it.

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Nah, let the sheep starve

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hahaha good thinking. I haven't thought of that in years

thanks very much. You could certainly get longer use from a double edged steel blade as well. The puncturing organs can be an issue though. I had to be careful with that even with stone when splitting the stomach

Thanks Jeff, yeah they sure work well like this

thank you very much Terry. Greatly appreciated

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yeah I had not seen that before. I am sure they looked at us like any other predator "feeding" on a carcass

I have been thinking about doing an exclusively-obsidian project in the future, so it may happen

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@@huntprimitive9918 thank you so much I always wonder how my ancestors hunt these beautiful animals I also make bows Navajo style I never had a chance to test it out but by watching your videos I get a chance to hunt with you before my grandpa pass he was watching dances with wolves he was like "that's not true" they is more I love to say again thank you and may you always Walk n Beauty

yes for sure. 3 was ideal most of the time, but 4 is handy if you have 2 holders and 2 cutters. It can get crowded with too many knives swinging about

just cherts, flints, agates, obsidian etc.. rocks that break with a clean sharp edge

Obviously because he wants bison, what kind of stupid question is that?

I definitely have lots of bone for projects. I did a project on bone knives a points a while back. I definitely prefer stone for blades and points and to save the bones for many other projects

either at huntprimitive.com or put on a lot of miles and hunt around for good knapping rock. Some places have lots, and many other are bare of any good rock. It's definitely something that takes time to find

I wouldn't see the need with all that sinew

any intestines I have used has been pretty weak and ripped just with my hands. That's unfortunately not a material I am crazy about using

@@huntprimitive9918 that’s unfortunate. With so much of it, it would be great if it was strong enough to use. Thanks for the info 👍

we were definitely against the clock of daylight so we didn't bother cooking any on site. Howeevr later on we bashed a femur and ate raw marrow

@@huntprimitive9918 The only way to be 'in the moment' :)

definitely. I have a video coming out on that soon as well

Your not that guy pal

haha thanks

I believe you are correct.

certainly not.

Yup I did. I hope to have a public facility some day that folks can come visit and see a lot of the bigger animals we did videos on.

haha. you never know!

oh without a doubt.