Rabbit Hunting with Primitive Bow and Arrow
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Ryan Gill hunts cottontail rabbits in South Florida with a primitive bow and arrow. This bow is the same one as seen in the "Stone Age bow build and hunt" videos. You can find a link to those hunts in the Stone Age series playlist linked below.
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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
Not to be a bother or anything but do you have any rabbit recipes that you like that you’d be willing to post sometime? Or maybe a link I could follow? Would greatly appreciate it!
@@moosemoosepower My wife typically does all the taste good cooking. My personal simplified method is to cut it all up and put in the crock pot with potatoes, celery, onion and carrots.
rabbit tastes sooo good
HuntPrimitive yeah I think it’s okay to kill animals without eating them if they are invasive but even then you can use them
Electronic Freak or you can leave them for animals in case someone gives them some weed and they get the munchies
"Shhhhhh.... Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits."
Nhyeee! Whats up doc?
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It’s amazing how accurate he is with a primitive bow. Pure skill
I think you under estimate yourself. Ive made my own bow and shoot it every day. If I can do it anyone can. Seems to be the point of Ryans videos too. Try it.
Also depends on how you shoot. If you are shooting pure instinctive then it will probably take more practice; whereas, if you aim in some sort of way, like gap shooting, it will be easier.
It's really not hard. We humans have neuropathways developed for shot calculation. You just don't know yours is there because you don't use them.
Not what expect when i hear "I'm gonna pull out a blunt" hehe.
he's doing the best hunting videos I've ever seen
IKR, the bison with atlatl is the best thing ever
Thank you very much, I really really appreciate the kind words and for following along
@@huntprimitive9918u must shoot a lot of beer cans in order to shoot a rabbit.
@@huntprimitive9918 your videos are doing exactly what u want them to do, educating and inspiring. If u ever decide to make a primitive hunting dvd you have to include these cotton tail hunts theres nothin on the market like it
@@huntprimitive9918 does the sinew bow string make the bow elastic compared to modern bow strings
I enjoy watching small game primitive hunting more than big game I think haha
Yeah it's super interesting and probally more realistic
Haven’t seen many big game yet. But I imagine it is harder, you need more arrows probably? The ones I’ve seen so far they just shoot the limbs.
@@Pwn3540 one shot one kill is the mantra, he and many more demonstrate that fact in their big game hunts.
bugs bunny has left the chat.
Him and is cronies have left this earth it seems
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.
How so?
lunkydog hello
@@electronicfreak1111 I'd say Gordon Ramsey yelling at people over a bowl of pork is very disrespectful to the pork. Thing gave it's life, and he's screaming because someone dropped a peppercorn.
Any food fight is disrespecful to food. Fun, but yeah very dis
I included my very young children in the "harvesting" of the domesticated animals we raised for food. They grew up healthier with a better grasp on reality because of it.
The same would apply with hunted wild animals.
ZEUS O. Yeah as long as they don’t enjoy killing for the sake of killing it would definitely be better for them
Good hunter, quick kill, and respectful never taking risky shots. I was surprised you could get so close to them without them running away.
thanks. Rabbits around here definitely prefer to hold still and hope you dont see them.
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.
is hunting something big you plan in advance, or do just go out and hunt when you feel like it?
it depends I suppose. It used to be more of a random act, but now with business and family obligations, I typically plan my days off a couple weeks in advance to optimize my time
Anthony Maurice do you live in the city?
Anthony Maurice you can always Hunt birds
@@electronicfreak1111 Yeah, especially house sparrows, pigeons, and starlings! These introduced species are considered so threatening to native birds and to agriculture that there are no federal restrictions on their harvest.
Check your local laws.
@@nmarbletoe8210 What about song birds?
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.
Can the rabbit's sinew be made into bowstring?
Wish there was this many rabbits around up north. Jeez wow.
Wabbit hunting be very very quiet!!
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.
Do you use blunts on the pheasants?
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
Man, I never get bored from your videos.
That's how I live in Kentucky, country boy can survive. Great video
Dude, getting rid of sinew and bone? It's super yummy and good for you! Honestly though just section the whole carcas and pop it in the slow cooker or pressure cooker.
Blunts work much better then broadheads for small game for sure.
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
You're awesome with that bow. Loved this hunt
Where are you located?
Is that private land? Is it legal?
good shit, bit of pig rooting there I see, do you hunt pigs with the bow? Cheers
Wild 🐇 rabbit baked with red pepper 😋 yummy
The arrows hitting the rabbits just sounds beautiful.
haha right? but I can't say that in the folks will be offended..lol
Funny that this got posted today, I was having a discussion with my dad about rabbits since we have a lot around.
Nice video donmore like this
Thanks for liking
You hunt like a cave man, but you don;t eat like one.
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
absolutely! thanks very much
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!
Ryan, don't interact with the "wanna be friends" comment from logan. It's a hacker.
I figured that was likely the case after he last one..lol thanks for the heads up. Sometimes I just assume they are kids and I always want to try to especially make sure I am nice and respond to kids when I can
HuntPrimitive it is nice that some kids like this sort of stuff unless it’s because they’re sociopaths
1:54 Well you just got yourself a new sub!
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.
Veteran Iron&Wood it’s not need to even have a bow and arrow boomerangs and Spears
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!
What pound is that bow?
Great video! I like the fact that you went over your butchering techniques as well as the hunt.
thanks very much buddy
That's crazy how thick they are great shot Man
Great video. Love rabbit in a crock pot with 2 cans of creme of mushroom soup and a little salt and pepper.
Ryan Jesus Christ man back to back to back great videos
Excellent hunting.
Excellent primitive bow and arrows.
Excellent Aim.
Cameraman not so good. He needs to use better camera, zoom in on the target right before you draw and be aware of shades and angle relative to the sun light.
In regards to the calf meat, could you say you've gone down that rabbit hole?
The gutting really should not be age-restricted, especially because it is the stuff we eat.
Great content, can't get enough!
Rabbit hunting ASMR
You're a braver man than me. I love my barebow but there's enough luck involved in hunting as it is 😅
You make it look easy, it’s not.
These little critters where I hunt dodge and weave arrows like a boxer.
Yeah where I'm from of they see you coming from across the field they're already gone.
OMG THATS SO NICE. I want more videos pls
We are not allowed to hunt rabbits with a bow in England. In fact we are not allowed to hunt anything with a bow(or crossbow), even vermin. Shooting an animal with an arrow or bolt is considered to cause unnecessary distress, but a bullet or pellet isn't? We also can't hunt with a catapult if using stones or pebbles BUT we can use ball bearings, This is because stoning(or pebbling) something to death is considered cruel BUT using a metal ball bearing ISN'T?? We are even being discouraged from growing our own vegetables. They really want us to be 100% reliant on supermarkets.
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!
Hello sir... Am new follower... Love your hunting vids😍🙏please CAn you tell me if a 26lbs bow can kill rabbit with target practice arrowhead
YESSS, this is my kind of video. thank you for the upload!
thanks very much for following along!
Ho, forgot to mention that it is illegal to hunt anything with a bow here in the UK, so obviously I would never do that. Also the rabbits I get need cooking for hours to get the meat something like.
I hunt them all the time and my dog loves the rabbit meat.
@@8BitGamer4life "people" like this thing is why I'm opposed to hunting rabbits. I hope the cops get him/she/it.
I find it rather odd that skinning a rabbit is considered shoking enough to be age-restrictred, but a video that shows the actuall killing of the animal is ok? I'd say that the act of killing anything is always more shocking then processing it's carcass afterwards. RUclips is weird.
Wow the natural process of how humans originally stripped an animal of its skin before eating it is somehow unsuitable for children.... wouldn't you want children to know basic life skills like that?
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.
If you exchange your dangerous arrows with foam headed arrows you can join us in roleplay conventions and hunt down real people ;) Further in german: Wir suchen noch weitere Leute für unseren Steinzeit-Stamm im Larp - da können wir gute Bogenschützen gebrauchen, die mit uns in den Kampf ziehen, um Leute zu jagen :D Meld dich, wenn du Bock hast ;)
You really don't know how to clean you know how to clean a rabbit but down Hideaway you take the meat off the rabbit Easter hunt in Belle Glades used to skin a rabbit skin like what you did and take the guts out and do a lot more stuff but they know how you cut and wrap it up look up videos how you clean a rabbit that show you the right way my name is Jeffery and I like to go hunting with you on your RUclips channel
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!.
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
The sound of blunts smacking them is brutal lol. Super quick kill tho. Way better than any other death they would’ve had.
thanks very much
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
Amazingly informative video, thanks so much for making it! I just purchased a primitive bow to go small game/rabbit hunting.
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!👍👍
I don't know if you have a video on this topic but it would be cool to see you make a primitive blowgun and hunt small game with it.
whats the draw wieght of the bow your using to hunt rabbits?
I guess I'm primitive; I would save those meaty bones and make brouth.
I find a lil shockin and disguisting obv but it's free meat 👍😀
Do u eat the rabits?
yes.. that's pretty much the end half of the video...
👏👏👏 You are not only a good hunter, but an artist in bow and arrow making, reviving primitive skills and connecting us to our ancestors.
Do you have to worry about diseased rabbits? And how can you tell if the rabbit meat is safe and not tainted?
Helps to live where there is tons of rabbits that are not so bright
What country ?
I’ve always seen your Instagram stuff and even had a talk with you. But I never thought your outback would look Australian .
(I thought you lived in The Pacific Northwest
he lives in florida usa
You make the best videos I'm watching all of them will I'm stuck in my house
6:30 yeah learned that one from the simpsons. knife goes in guts go out. helps me remember what to do
Great hunting once again
thanks very much
Playing the forest and just don't give a shit about progression
awesome bow skills and thanks for taking the time to make the video
How about using a sharpened wood tip (kind of like a field point)?
You really don't know how to clean no rabbit definitely cottontail rabbit
Bugs Bunny isn't going to be very happy with this video!!!
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.
that's a good idea
Do u ever have issues with the rabbits or squirrels having worms or parasites?
I wish you had not made this video. First, it's a waste of effort and arrows to kill small animals, compared to deer and larger game, for which one deer feeds many people or a few a long time. A rabbit? One doesn't even make one meal for one person, yet you wasted the same effort and materials you put into killing a deer. Second, one deer is one living being sacrificed for you, your family, your group to live. One rabbit? More like a dozen. You have to kill dozens of lives to to get the same survival value that you get from taking just one. That also multiplies the chances of leaving orphan babies to die without their mothers. My dad was an archery champion and a devoted bow hunter... until he killed a possum. When he took the shot, he couldn't see that there were 4 babies clinging to their now dying mother. That was the last animal he hunted.
Waste of Arrows my guy ITS BLUNT HE ONLY USED 1 ARROW HE SAID IT IN THE VIDEO. also you dad shot the mother of a possum ok so what, animals kill the mother of other animals, so by your description your father kinda sounds like a puss puss.
That's amazing Ryan ! As educating as ever👍👍
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What other game can you get with a primitive blunt?
Have you given any thought to hunting with a sling? I am not sure on the legality of it, but I know it has the power to deliver a humane kill just based on target practice I have done over the years. Accuracy is the mane challenge I see, however the sling has many styles that can applied to different situations. All of this is in reference to small game of course.
With game that small, and tender, wouldn't a sharpened shaft be slightly more effective? I'm thinking, with an arrow attached, they would't make it down a hole as easily.
My experience shooting rabbits with a longbow made me prefer blunts, hands down, over field-type points. Sharp arrows pass completely through over half the time, allowing the rabbit to run even if the hit was a fatal one. You lose them down holes, etc. A blunt also does more tissue damage than a shaft diameter sharp point and, more often than not, remains in the rabbit, impeding it's ability to navigate through briars and brush. Broad headed arrows kill rabbits more rapidly than either blunts or field points but also have a pass through problem as well as being more easily deflected if you are shooting at a hunkered rabbit in it's favorite briar patch. They will ALL work, just saying that if you shoot an equal number of rabbits with blunts and field points in the type of terrain I hunt, you will recover more shot with blunts by a good margin.
As always, great video, good hunt. I'll have to try that this year
Nice shooting!
My granddad used to just throw the whole rabbit into the pot
Do you worry about worms or disease when hunting rabbit in the warmer months? That has been a big deterrent for me, or possibly more of an excuse.
There is some public land around me that has rabbit, but I'd say if you get one shot at one, its a decent day. I'd love to get one or two with the bow, but worry about the diseases everyone keeps on about and not sure if its worth it. "after the first frost" is the time to hunt rabbit, but what about the down times in the warmer months when you cant hunt deer?!
We don't have those problems with them down here. I've never seen a parasite in one. Also, I don't think it ever frosts this far south.lol deer season down in this zone actually starts in late July, and bucks are dropping Antlers around Christmas.
Hi I was wondering if you would class a slingshot as a primitive hunting tool would love to know what you think I enjoy slingshot hunting but don't know if it's classt as primitive hunting
there are no real classifications I suppose, just however you feel about it.A slingshot definitely adds a level of difficulty to the hunt. It wouldn't be primitive in regards to that there are no rubber bands found in nature, but otherwise, it doesn't really have to have a label on it for yo to enjoy it.
@@huntprimitive9918 I think you are totally right with that and like you say it doesn't take away the enjoyment of slingshot hunting thanks for your reply
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.
So I’m making a knife blade out of a rock and I want it to look like a normal knife how should I sharpen the edges of the rock, I have a 8- inch file and rocks
a file won't do you any good on a rock. A stone knife needs to be flintknapped
can you save the sinew off rabbits? or is it also useless?
good hunting as long as you don't take more than you need
Is good...hunting👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Why are you hunting rabbits in the summer dude 😅