Archer here! It is okay to draw back, take a bit of time to aim, *then* fire. I saw an error most people make - they want to immediately fire. If you take a moment to actually aim, your accuracy will improve profoundly. Otherwise, this was a really good video!
@@roguerangerroger Both myself and my uncle(before he passed) had 80 Lb bows we'd compete against eachother with. However, practicing on lower poundage makes it easier to hold a higher poundage - but I figured that was common sense.
Try some more forgiving material for your feathers. Plastic vanes etc. work well with a elevated rest, but when shooting off te shelf or hand you'll get a boo koo bunch better accuracy and speed! Good video!
Thx for watching! Yes I'm trying crafting arrows with feathers now. They definitely work better than duct tape fletching. But they are also much harder to find in the forest.
I have an idea for the arrow rest because I have a slight thought that the bow might snap because of the stress put on the arrow rest you carved in it. 1. First, find a stick that is around 3/4 inch in diameter and 6 inches in length. 2.Cut 1/2 of the way through the branch a little bit to the top of it. (Like this) ___________ |_____ | | | | | | | | | |__________| 2. Baton the wood to where you sawed the notch. It should be some what of a 90 degree angle. (Yet another visual representation) ___________ |_____ | | | | | | | | | |_____| 3.tie, glue tape, etc. it to your bow on the side of it. It should be inline with the bow.
Hey, that's a pretty good idea to saw part way into the bow and then chip the section of wood out from the end. Good fast way to thin out the bow. I'm gonna have to try that. Should speed things along a lot. I had to laugh when you tested your bow by shooting your arrows at a hard metal object sitting on top of a rock. I believe I would've selected a much softer target in order to preserve my arrow tips. And why would you want to tiller the bow by removing wood from the belly side of the bow (as opposed to the back). Wouldn't that severely weaken the bow and increase the chances of it breaking there?
Thanks for watching! Yeah that little trick can cut down the build time by an hour or more. I had blunt wooden tips on those improvised arrows. The survival bow is a really easy to build (and easy to learn) weapon. My only real complaint with it so far is that it's more finicky in terms of maintenance than other simpler primitive weapons like the throwing stick or the rock sling, but I'm still playing around with it.
That’s a nice survival bow. I made my first self bow from ironwood. It’s a short bow but shoots very fast. I’ll be making another bow ( long bow) from a dogwood sapling soon. Have you thought of making a Penobscot Double Bow? I’m thinking of trying to make a Penobscot bow myself. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! Yes I've read about the double bow design, I would like to try to craft that at some point. I'm also looking into the bundle bow designs as well.
Hey, me again. I have another bow idea (and possibly a video idea). You could make a bundle bow from many wooden sticks. You could also use fiberglass tent rods if you are camping and need to make a hunting tool.
No spokeshave, no bandsaw, no sanders!! Impressive! I like the "saw milling" move I see where you brace the knife and run the wood past it. Have you ever had a bow break? Do you recall any lessons learned to avoid having a bow snap? I feel that removal of wood from the belly is the critical advice, along with careful tillering. Without opening Pandora's box, can you suggest a hardwood for the northwestern United States area? I am from the south, where hickory and Osage grow, but have moved north to the softwood forests. Thank you!!
Thanks for watching! I feel like you are always running a risk of the bow breaking when building these emergency survival bows from greenwood. I have made on and off over the years perhaps a dozen green wood bows. I have not encountered one which doesn't break within a few hundred shots. Quick drying the bow's limbs over a fire produces very inconsistent results for me, likely due to my newb crafting skills.
The Native Americans who lived in your area used cedar and juniper for their bows( also yew and ash if available). They made short flat bows, about 44inches long, with narrow handles. These conifer wood bows can be very high performance if a backing is glued on, however the natives often made them with no backing and consistently took deer and bear with them. If you want to know more about this style of bow you’ll find a lot of information by googling Yahi, Modoc, Yurok, Salish, those are just some tribes I could think of off the top of my head. Also look up Ishi he was a legend in those parts to say the least. Good luck in you archery adventures
Thanks for watching! That was a survival bow was made from unseasoned green wood. It was never meant to take down anything bigger than small birds, frogs, rabbits...etc. Also after experimenting with this design for some time, these bows usually don't last more than a few hundred shots. I think if you had to rely on the bow for survival hunting it would be a good idea to craft the survival bow, but also in parallel harvest the stave of a long term bow and put that into a cool dry place to season for a month.
I just thought measuring out maximum range and comparing to other ones might be interesting data to have maybe even a basic penetrative into a soft target too. Made a bow or two when young with a mate out of saplings we just snapped the old nail in a stick could of been bamboo can't remember properly for an arrow thing didn't whittle the bow but the arrow flew close to 50 metres.
Great job on this video, Bushcrafter! I have to say your shooting form looked really good on this. That is what I call bow skills! Keep having fun out there, Man!...Awesome job.....Ben
Thanks a bunch Ben! I've been playing around with building stick bows for the last 6 months. This primitive weapon is a blast to shoot, and quite accurate within it's effective range.
Can you try to make a survival knife out of a key or a carabiner and also make an atlotl it’s a primitive weapon that’s pretty easy to use and make and it’s effective and accurate and powerful it’s ment to throw large arrows or spears
Thanks for watching, Arthur! I have made a knife out of a coin before, never tried it with a key. I have heard a lot of good things about the atlatl , so I'm likely going to start crafting it soon!
What prevents me from taking archery seriously as a weapon is the requiment to have specialized training just to use it. I've been trying for years to get consistent accuracy and form by myself and still can barely pull it off.
Thanks for watching! I agree that consistent high precision shots with arrows takes significant amounts of practice. However, a survival hunting level of accuracy (e.g 2 out of 3 shots on a pie plate) at 30 feet imho is achievable for most people within a month of focused practice.
@@WannabeBushcrafterThank you for the feedback bud! It makes me appreciate ancient and earlier cultures more worldwide for the amount of ingenuity and experimentation time that must have been placed into this weapon. Aiming is definitely better than NOT aiming, though I just find picking up a sling and learning to use it is more feasible when you're all alone with no teachers compared to archery. But just because I can't get it right doesn't mean the ancient people's couldn't do it right 😊
Thanks for watching! I agree with you on that as minimum requirements for ethical hunting. However I think for emergency survival hunting where a lost wounded deer is an acceptable outcome, then the poundage does not have to be as high. Obviously if given the choice one should craft a bow with an appropriately high poundage for hunting without the poundage being so high as to affect accuracy and shot placement. (e.g 40-60lbs for most people)
@@WannabeBushcrafter I'm actually interested in seeing the ways which this could be improved , I wouldn't feel comfortable attempting a shot at a deer with anything less than 40 lb and that is with good high quality arrows. Still this actually fascinates me as a subject matter, because the bow is far easier to use than a sling, being able to make one as rapidly as you did even if it's only good for squirrels and rabbits is pretty darn handy.
@@mrspeigle1 after building several of these survival bows, I think one way of going aboit this is to build 2 bows. One for immediate use against smaller game and a second one that could be rapidly dried over the course of 3 to 4 weeks. With that said the limiting factor of this weapon is not the bow but rather the arrow. Good arrows are very difficult to craft in survival situations.
@@WannabeBushcrafter I've heard about using Cattails for Arrow shafts , but never actually tried it. Might be a good solution for your quick and dirty bow especially with the low draw weight. If i remember correctly the design used a cat tail for the shaft and big thorn harvested from a tree for the tip. Wrap the head and knock with plant fiber.
@@mrspeigle1 I'll look into cattail. I haven't tried it just yet. So far I've made primitive arrows out of birch, hazel, ash, and bamboo. The great difficulty imho is the need to create arrow shafts that will perform consistently. Green wood shafts tend to warp and not flex consistently, even after you flash dry it by a fire. Not being able to judge the spine of the shaft, I find that a significant portion (50-75%) of shafts that has been harvested, processed, and straightened would not shoot properly from a bow.
I see the making of a primitive bow, but without arrows, it seems a pointless exercise. Do you have a video hiding somewhere that shows how to create primitive arrows?
@@garrysmith9515 I don't. I also don't make survival bows. I use throwing sticks or a spear. Traps of course if I'm staying at the same place for some time. So basically all I bring is my knife for the kill and to butcher, some simple fishing gear like line sinkers and hooks and some cordage for the traps. Now if I had the arrows and the string and the bow I brought broke, than I would consider making some sort of survival bow. I'm not the maker of this video. ;) I was just making up a scenario that it's possible to already have the arrows although it is more likely to be the other way around.
Thanks for watching! You've hit upon one of the major disadvantages of the bow. Good arrows are expensive and time consuming to craft. It also takes significant skills and experience. It took me around an hour to make one straight arrow with a fire hardened tip.
Thanks for watching! For this video I just used duct tape as fletching. BTW your channel is awesome, I really enjoy watching those solo overnighter videos that you make.
Thanks for watching! Survival arrows takes more effort to craft than the bow IMHO. I'm going to make another video on this at some point in the future.
Thanks for watching! This is a low poundage survival bow, it's really too weak to take down a deer and is meant for small game, fish, frogs...etc at close range.
Perhaps you could make a more powerful version using the same techniques, but the bow you show in this video is practically useless, it is not nearly powerful enough to take down any kind of larger wildlife, if you give it your best using a very sharp arrowhead with low resistance you might be able to take down small game like rabbits. Making an effective bow is hard, I think atlatls are your best choice in emergency situations. Or if you keep some Terraband at hand you can make a strong slingshot that can also make use of arrows.
Thanks for watching! This survival bow has a draw weight of 15 lbs and can dent a steel can at 20 feet. That is more than powerful enough for stunning small game at close range. Making powerful bows in survival situations is indeed difficult since you can't really wait for the bow wood to season. Still low poundage bows like this one has been used to great effect by many stone age cultures.
@@WannabeBushcrafter There's really no way you could hunt anything with this bow. The arrow is simply too slow, and you'd have to be insanely close to get any kind of accuracy with this thing. You still can make a decent bow out of green wood though, it just needs to have a better tiller. Here's a video by Mick Grewcock, who's a decent bowyer and made a green bow in a couple hours, although he used more advanced tools: ruclips.net/video/Cow-iSvX8g4/видео.html It'd definitely take atleast twice as long to do this with a knife. P.S: You don't need an arrow rest, and bows are one of the worse options for an emergency hunting weapon.
@@rifraf276 thanks for watching. I have to disagree with you. That arrow is not flying very fast but it's faster than say a rabbit stick. Furthermore survival hunting generally occurs over very short distances (under 30 feet) where that arrow is fast enough for small game. In terms of accuracy, i was getting hits on small game sized tin cans at 20 feet which is also accurate enough for survival purposes.
Yea he refuses to accept that 15lbs is not sufficient to hunt small game like "rabbits & birds" as he sais with this bow, with any hope of success. 1 out of 6 shots to a still target less than 20' away. No, not something id want to rely on to survive. And denting a tin can is not an accomplishment for an arrow, I have dented tin cans with my pinky finger by accident lol. With how unlikely you are to actually hit living game with this bow you might as well take less time and make a sling, A boomerang, 4 pointed throwing stake, easy to use n suprisingly accurate with only little practice..... or.... make a stronger bow, Which many people do 25-30 pound Without having a seasoned stav. So, sorry man.
Thanks for watching! I made a couple of videos on the rock sling as a survival weapon, feel free to check them out! Overall I like both the bow and the sling as each has unique advantages.
Archer here! It is okay to draw back, take a bit of time to aim, *then* fire. I saw an error most people make - they want to immediately fire. If you take a moment to actually aim, your accuracy will improve profoundly. Otherwise, this was a really good video!
Thanks for the advice!
Advice him to draw low poundage bow if he wants to draw hold and shoot. I think with higher poundage, you don't really hold your draw it and hold.
@@roguerangerroger Both myself and my uncle(before he passed) had 80 Lb bows we'd compete against eachother with. However, practicing on lower poundage makes it easier to hold a higher poundage - but I figured that was common sense.
Cool videos and now I will have something to do when I go camping besides drinking beer and staring at the fire
Glad to help!
Outstanding video. Please make more on the construction of Bow and Arrows in the wilderness.
Thanks I'll do that.
Try some more forgiving material for your feathers. Plastic vanes etc. work well with a elevated rest, but when shooting off te shelf or hand you'll get a boo koo bunch better accuracy and speed! Good video!
Thx for watching! Yes I'm trying crafting arrows with feathers now. They definitely work better than duct tape fletching. But they are also much harder to find in the forest.
Thanks
if i were a squirrel i would be pretty chill if i saw you coming at me with a bow
Thanks for watching!
I have an idea for the arrow rest because I have a slight thought that the bow might snap because of the stress put on the arrow rest you carved in it.
1. First, find a stick that is around 3/4 inch in diameter and 6 inches in length.
2.Cut 1/2 of the way through the branch a little bit to the top of it.
(Like this)
___________
|_____ |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|__________|
2. Baton the wood to where you sawed the notch. It should be some what of a 90 degree angle.
(Yet another visual representation)
___________
|_____ |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|_____|
3.tie, glue tape, etc. it to your bow on the side of it. It should be inline with the bow.
Thanks for the tip! Yeah I think I saw someone else do something like that. I may give it a try at some point in the future.
People come to me asking for a CAD drawing.. most of the time they only need the above. Well communicated
@@kraptastic333 no need to over complicate things. explaining it simply brings so much more people to bushcraft. back to basics and what not. 👍
Hey, that's a pretty good idea to saw part way into the bow and then chip the section of wood out from the end. Good fast way to thin out the bow. I'm gonna have to try that. Should speed things along a lot. I had to laugh when you tested your bow by shooting your arrows at a hard metal object sitting on top of a rock. I believe I would've selected a much softer target in order to preserve my arrow tips. And why would you want to tiller the bow by removing wood from the belly side of the bow (as opposed to the back). Wouldn't that severely weaken the bow and increase the chances of it breaking there?
Thanks for watching! Yeah that little trick can cut down the build time by an hour or more. I had blunt wooden tips on those improvised arrows. The survival bow is a really easy to build (and easy to learn) weapon. My only real complaint with it so far is that it's more finicky in terms of maintenance than other simpler primitive weapons like the throwing stick or the rock sling, but I'm still playing around with it.
That’s a nice survival bow. I made my first self bow from ironwood. It’s a short bow but shoots very fast. I’ll be making another bow ( long bow) from a dogwood sapling soon. Have you thought of making a Penobscot Double Bow? I’m thinking of trying to make a Penobscot bow myself. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! Yes I've read about the double bow design, I would like to try to craft that at some point. I'm also looking into the bundle bow designs as well.
Hey, me again. I have another bow idea (and possibly a video idea). You could make a bundle bow from many wooden sticks. You could also use fiberglass tent rods if you are camping and need to make a hunting tool.
Thanks for watching! Yeah one of these days I'll make a bundle bow video. It's a interesting bow design that I've been playing around with lately.
a very nice clear video , but yet an idea on how best to make the arrows please !
Great suggestion!
No spokeshave, no bandsaw, no sanders!!
Impressive! I like the "saw milling" move I see where you brace the knife and run the wood past it.
Have you ever had a bow break? Do you recall any lessons learned to avoid having a bow snap? I feel that removal of wood from the belly is the critical advice, along with careful tillering.
Without opening Pandora's box, can you suggest a hardwood for the northwestern United States area? I am from the south, where hickory and Osage grow, but have moved north to the softwood forests.
Thank you!!
Thanks for watching! I feel like you are always running a risk of the bow breaking when building these emergency survival bows from greenwood. I have made on and off over the years perhaps a dozen green wood bows. I have not encountered one which doesn't break within a few hundred shots. Quick drying the bow's limbs over a fire produces very inconsistent results for me, likely due to my newb crafting skills.
The Native Americans who lived in your area used cedar and juniper for their bows( also yew and ash if available). They made short flat bows, about 44inches long, with narrow handles. These conifer wood bows can be very high performance if a backing is glued on, however the natives often made them with no backing and consistently took deer and bear with them. If you want to know more about this style of bow you’ll find a lot of information by googling Yahi, Modoc, Yurok, Salish, those are just some tribes I could think of off the top of my head. Also look up Ishi he was a legend in those parts to say the least. Good luck in you archery adventures
That bow ain’t gonna hurt anything, it’s too slow and has no power in it. At this point just my a spear and hunt it down yourself
Thanks for watching! That was a survival bow was made from unseasoned green wood. It was never meant to take down anything bigger than small birds, frogs, rabbits...etc. Also after experimenting with this design for some time, these bows usually don't last more than a few hundred shots. I think if you had to rely on the bow for survival hunting it would be a good idea to craft the survival bow, but also in parallel harvest the stave of a long term bow and put that into a cool dry place to season for a month.
I just thought measuring out maximum range and comparing to other ones might be interesting data to have maybe even a basic penetrative into a soft target too.
Made a bow or two when young with a mate out of saplings we just snapped the old nail in a stick could of been bamboo can't remember properly
for an arrow thing didn't whittle the bow but the arrow flew close to 50 metres.
Thanks for watching and sharing your story!
Great job on this video, Bushcrafter! I have to say your shooting form looked really good on this. That is what I call bow skills! Keep having fun out there, Man!...Awesome job.....Ben
Thanks a bunch Ben! I've been playing around with building stick bows for the last 6 months. This primitive weapon is a blast to shoot, and quite accurate within it's effective range.
Which video did you watch?
please keep uploading your great content!
Thanks! I try to make videos when I can :)
Can you try to make a survival knife out of a key or a carabiner and also make an atlotl it’s a primitive weapon that’s pretty easy to use and make and it’s effective and accurate and powerful it’s ment to throw large arrows or spears
Thanks for watching, Arthur! I have made a knife out of a coin before, never tried it with a key. I have heard a lot of good things about the atlatl , so I'm likely going to start crafting it soon!
You're gonna be hungry at that rate of shooting. Plus the draw weight will only be good enough for small game.
Nice job on this video !
Thanks Geoffrey! I appreciate it.
Thnxs for uploading and sharing
Thanks for watching!
What prevents me from taking archery seriously as a weapon is the requiment to have specialized training just to use it.
I've been trying for years to get consistent accuracy and form by myself and still can barely pull it off.
Thanks for watching! I agree that consistent high precision shots with arrows takes significant amounts of practice. However, a survival hunting level of accuracy (e.g 2 out of 3 shots on a pie plate) at 30 feet imho is achievable for most people within a month of focused practice.
@@WannabeBushcrafterThank you for the feedback bud!
It makes me appreciate ancient and earlier cultures more worldwide for the amount of ingenuity and experimentation time that must have been placed into this weapon.
Aiming is definitely better than NOT aiming, though I just find picking up a sling and learning to use it is more feasible when you're all alone with no teachers compared to archery.
But just because I can't get it right doesn't mean the ancient people's couldn't do it right 😊
This is an amazing video and an amazing channel! I don’t see why you don’t have more subscribers!
Thanks so much!
For deer you need at least a 40 lb draw weight, at least with arrows with strong points, metal or knapped stone or glass arrow heads.
Thanks for watching! I agree with you on that as minimum requirements for ethical hunting. However I think for emergency survival hunting where a lost wounded deer is an acceptable outcome, then the poundage does not have to be as high. Obviously if given the choice one should craft a bow with an appropriately high poundage for hunting without the poundage being so high as to affect accuracy and shot placement. (e.g 40-60lbs for most people)
@@WannabeBushcrafter Distance to target must be considered too. Further the animal, less energy carrried by the arrow.
@@WannabeBushcrafter Yup, some experienced bow hunters say minimum draw weight should 30 lbs for hunting.
what should the string be made from?
I used 550 paracord. :)
I'm sure you could increase the power by making the bow shorter and thicker right?
Yes a shorter bow would be more powerful. Another power enhancing technique that I'm looking into is quick drying the limbs of the bow near a fire.
@@WannabeBushcrafter I'm actually interested in seeing the ways which this could be improved , I wouldn't feel comfortable attempting a shot at a deer with anything less than 40 lb and that is with good high quality arrows. Still this actually fascinates me as a subject matter, because the bow is far easier to use than a sling, being able to make one as rapidly as you did even if it's only good for squirrels and rabbits is pretty darn handy.
@@mrspeigle1 after building several of these survival bows, I think one way of going aboit this is to build 2 bows. One for immediate use against smaller game and a second one that could be rapidly dried over the course of 3 to 4 weeks. With that said the limiting factor of this weapon is not the bow but rather the arrow. Good arrows are very difficult to craft in survival situations.
@@WannabeBushcrafter I've heard about using Cattails for Arrow shafts , but never actually tried it. Might be a good solution for your quick and dirty bow especially with the low draw weight. If i remember correctly the design used a cat tail for the shaft and big thorn harvested from a tree for the tip. Wrap the head and knock with plant fiber.
@@mrspeigle1 I'll look into cattail. I haven't tried it just yet. So far I've made primitive arrows out of birch, hazel, ash, and bamboo. The great difficulty imho is the need to create arrow shafts that will perform consistently. Green wood shafts tend to warp and not flex consistently, even after you flash dry it by a fire. Not being able to judge the spine of the shaft, I find that a significant portion (50-75%) of shafts that has been harvested, processed, and straightened would not shoot properly from a bow.
I see the making of a primitive bow, but without arrows, it seems a pointless exercise. Do you have a video hiding somewhere that shows how to create primitive arrows?
It can also be that the bow you brought is broken and you need to make a quick replacement, but you still have the arrows and string.
@@StevanOutdoor fair point, but in-context, I was asking if you had, or were going to make a video on how to craft primitive arrows?
@@garrysmith9515 I don't. I also don't make survival bows. I use throwing sticks or a spear. Traps of course if I'm staying at the same place for some time. So basically all I bring is my knife for the kill and to butcher, some simple fishing gear like line sinkers and hooks and some cordage for the traps.
Now if I had the arrows and the string and the bow I brought broke, than I would consider making some sort of survival bow. I'm not the maker of this video. ;) I was just making up a scenario that it's possible to already have the arrows although it is more likely to be the other way around.
Thanks for watching! You've hit upon one of the major disadvantages of the bow. Good arrows are expensive and time consuming to craft. It also takes significant skills and experience. It took me around an hour to make one straight arrow with a fire hardened tip.
@@WannabeBushcrafter I believe it. The video was fascinating. I learned quite a bit, so thanks for that. :)
Great job.
Thanks! I really appreciate it!
Excellent
Thanks, I appreciate it! :D
Going to try this soon.
Thx for watching!
No problem!
What is that fletching on the arrow?
Thanks for watching! For this video I just used duct tape as fletching. BTW your channel is awesome, I really enjoy watching those solo overnighter videos that you make.
scusate ma come fate a definire un arco un elastico per mutande ???????
Thanks for watching!
Hi I am new subscriber from Pakistan
Thanks for subscribing! :)
Мне кажется, что лук гнётся не так, как должен. Плечи едва работают, не гнутся там, где должны и гнуться там, где не должны
Thanks for watching! Yeah this bow will not be winning any performance or beauty contests. It just has to work for a couple of hundred shots.
I'm not soppust to be awake
Lol thanks for watching! 😀
What about survival arrows?
Thanks for watching! Survival arrows takes more effort to craft than the bow IMHO. I'm going to make another video on this at some point in the future.
can it kill a deer
Thanks for watching! This is a low poundage survival bow, it's really too weak to take down a deer and is meant for small game, fish, frogs...etc at close range.
Perhaps you could make a more powerful version using the same techniques, but the bow you show in this video is practically useless, it is not nearly powerful enough to take down any kind of larger wildlife, if you give it your best using a very sharp arrowhead with low resistance you might be able to take down small game like rabbits. Making an effective bow is hard, I think atlatls are your best choice in emergency situations. Or if you keep some Terraband at hand you can make a strong slingshot that can also make use of arrows.
Thanks for watching! This survival bow has a draw weight of 15 lbs and can dent a steel can at 20 feet. That is more than powerful enough for stunning small game at close range. Making powerful bows in survival situations is indeed difficult since you can't really wait for the bow wood to season. Still low poundage bows like this one has been used to great effect by many stone age cultures.
@@WannabeBushcrafter There's really no way you could hunt anything with this bow. The arrow is simply too slow, and you'd have to be insanely close to get any kind of accuracy with this thing. You still can make a decent bow out of green wood though, it just needs to have a better tiller. Here's a video by Mick Grewcock, who's a decent bowyer and made a green bow in a couple hours, although he used more advanced tools: ruclips.net/video/Cow-iSvX8g4/видео.html It'd definitely take atleast twice as long to do this with a knife.
P.S: You don't need an arrow rest, and bows are one of the worse options for an emergency hunting weapon.
@@rifraf276 thanks for watching. I have to disagree with you. That arrow is not flying very fast but it's faster than say a rabbit stick. Furthermore survival hunting generally occurs over very short distances (under 30 feet) where that arrow is fast enough for small game. In terms of accuracy, i was getting hits on small game sized tin cans at 20 feet which is also accurate enough for survival purposes.
Yea he refuses to accept that 15lbs is not sufficient to hunt small game like "rabbits & birds" as he sais with this bow, with any hope of success. 1 out of 6 shots to a still target less than 20' away. No, not something id want to rely on to survive. And denting a tin can is not an accomplishment for an arrow, I have dented tin cans with my pinky finger by accident lol. With how unlikely you are to actually hit living game with this bow you might as well take less time and make a sling, A boomerang, 4 pointed throwing stake, easy to use n suprisingly accurate with only little practice..... or.... make a stronger bow, Which many people do 25-30 pound Without having a seasoned stav. So, sorry man.
clever
Thanks! Glad you like it 😀
@@WannabeBushcrafter welcome bro
Can probably remove the 'wannabe' from your name, bro.
LOL thanks!
Cool but the bow is very WEAK
Thanks for watching! Yeah it's hard to make green wood survival bows be very powerful. I have seen a few other videos do it though.
What about a para cord sling as a survival tool?
Thanks for watching! I made a couple of videos on the rock sling as a survival weapon, feel free to check them out! Overall I like both the bow and the sling as each has unique advantages.
😂😂
Thx for watching!
Oh!!!! I get it, it's a joke