That walking style is how I've hunted the last 10+ years and everytime I take someone they can't believe how easy it can be. Granted you always spook some but it's so fun it's worth it lol
I know that bison hunt wasn’t a perfect kill scenario, and might have even been dangerous at times, but that was an AWESOME video. On the note of persistence hunting, I wonder if it might have been for megafauna like elephants that you really don’t want to fight, but are so large they can get exhausted from running pretty quickly. Also, killing such a large animal would kind of be needed to make up for the expenditure of calories. I don’t know, just a thought.
if the area is dry enough, stone or adobe blinds can be made beside waterholes. The animals get used to the structures and they hide you very well. Naturally, you site such things to take prevailing winds into consideration
Group hunting is fun and productive. I remember one hunt with 2 companions. Three sets of eyes are better than one. The first rabbit taken was trapped under an abandoned fence and taken at close range with an arrow. The second was sunning on a small knoll. I watched as my buddy slipped around the knoll and stomped the rabbits foot, penning him long enough to pop him in the head with a blunt. I spotted another at extreme range and let fly. Of course the rabbit moved before the arrow got to him but it forced him in a hole. A forked stick twisted him out and we all came home with a rabbit apiece and after having a great day. People working together is a force to be reckoned with.
Would you consider testing bone, antler, or ivory tools/points at some point? Also, what kinds of other things might be used in an area with poor knapping stone? I’ve heard of slate arrowheads, and I tried making some. They had sharp enough points, but I just could not get the sides anywhere near as sharp as a chert arrowhead.
As far as poisons concerned, I can see poisons being used for larger game where penetration is concerned. Even then the amount of poison needed for when that’s an issue, say mammoth or mastodon, wouldn’t be necessarily feasible. Take a look at how big the doses of tranq. Darts need to be for African elephants. If I remember correctly, I think horses were domesticated in the central Asian steppe, so horseback hunting could be more ideal for open plains game like antelope. But the last time I watched the video was awhile ago.
I'm wondering about your idea of the dog domestication process. It does make a lot of sense, and considering that it only happened once, the whole scenario does not need to be very common. However, humans had to make a conscious decision of raising a wolf pup. That begs the question of how people started perceiving wolves as help, instead of competition? And I find it possible, that it were the wolves who could have came up with this idea first. I mean, humans are very efficient when they process a kill, but not as efficient as wolves. They eat almost everything, while humans will inevitably leave some stuff behind. Therefore it made sense for a wolf to follow a human hunter in hopes of getting a free meal. They are natural team hunters, so I could imagine that at least some would choose to cautiously cooperate. Then we could imagine a working relationship developing. After that, I could see that the human would consider getting a pup and trying to raise it.
I've never heard that dog domestication only happened once but they were worth it because they would alert dangers in the night, they could be used as pack animals and they could be eaten if need be
If you look it up, humans didn’t go out and capture a wolf pup and raise it. Wolves just started hanging around humans and scavenging the things humans didn’t eat and over many years they got more comfortable with each other until basically each human population had their own version of domesticated dog.
@@missourimongoose8858 All dogs are very closely related to each other. All of them are the most closely related to Eastern European wolves, even if they happen to live in East Asia or America. That suggests that dog domestication happened only once, and likely somewhere in the West Eurasia.
@@bracoop2 If it was so simple, why wolves all over the world wouldn't do the exact same thing? We know they didn't, because even Dingo are more closely related to the West Eurasian wolves than to any wolf anywhere close to them. I mean, I'm with Brian on that. Humans made a conscious decision at some point and domesticated the dog. It did not "just happen".
Hello people, I was thinking that when we are considering opportunistic primitive hunting, it would be good to provide arrows equipped with blunts, or without points and to be able to quickly recognize them in the quiver (cresting?) So we will avoid shooting a squirrel or a rabbit with a stone blade. For my part, I sometimes practice shooting with a second arrow on the back of my bow, held with my bow hand. I can thus reload more quickly but above all have two different projectiles quickly. Happy hunting everyone and thanks to Ryan for the inspiration!
Question, not that I'm asking you to try, but hunting with throwing stones, is this feasible? I'm very early humans, could they kill by mass stone throwing?
My great grandfather did this. He used a gun to "hunt" but just walking around he could kill just about anything probably even a deer. My dad said he could throw a baseball sized rock so hard it would crack a wood fence rail. Same thing with a short heavy stick. This is also how they used to get "yard birds" like chickens or quail, and knock squirrels, possum and raccoons out of trees and nests. They lived in a river valley filled with creeks coming off the mountains so there were always rocks everywhere.
ALSO one easy way to get game when camping is only build a small fire when needed and put it out when you're done. All kinds of animals will come into camp at night because they are curious. KEEP YOUR NIGHT VISION and get used to the dark. I've had many many nights with raccoon and possum armadillo and rats digging in my pack right beside me and you can set a snare or trap or kill them with a rock even grab them if you're quick they don't even run. I've seen panther and bobcat giving me a look over AND plenty of iguan😮. ALSO working on something attracts their curiosity start some noisy bush craft and they will find you. I've known loggers who kept a freezer full of deer and squirrels because they were curious about the chain saw. One last tip is to sleep on a trail or run and you will wake up with animals looking at you, especially if you snore.
speaking about walking and noise,bipedal make very dinstinct noise if you listen enogh to your prey you can learn to walk making their noise you will be much more sucsesful
the dog came to be because it wasn't aggressive, it has less adrenaline and a smaller adrenal gland. It was the wolf that was less agressive, and would follow human populations and likely fed off of waste product. So the least successful wolf became reliant upon man and has evolved since - that is they evolved specifically to work with humans even in terms of communication lol so that theory makes even more sense than you might know also persistance hunting requires a community, lol it's a marathon. One person takes the lead, then the next person takes the lead and the lead goes to the back so that he can run at a slower pace,
Hey Ryan! About the persistent hunting, here's my two cents. A few years ago, I was crossbow hunting on a maize field that was being harvested. I soon ran out of bolts... After a while, I saw a young boar with an injured back leg. I grab my spear and started running after it. It was one of those round massive pivot fields and the ground was all turned up and soft, running there was horrible for me, but also for the pig. He was still running faster than me but not by much and I quickly got close to him everytime he stopped to take a breath. Whenever he got close to the edge (and the thick brush) I would open up my path and rush him in again, very tiering but I was able to recover enough for the next spring while just running. We spent over 10min like this until he eventually gave up the run and decided to face me. I longed with the spear, fell, though I was going to get gored, stood up as fast as I could and saw the pig squealing and running sideways, it's belly pierced. This is to this day my most memorable hunting moment but going back to the persistent hunting, you don't have to run 30miles, you just have to force them to try and make you go away. At close range, humans with tools win.
@@anonymousthesneaky220 boars here in Portugal start making their beds in the maiz during the sumer, by end of september, when we harvest it, there are several dozens in each plot. We take the ocasion and kill what we can during that Day. I had 4 bolts, shot 3, missed one. The apear was just in case I was charged, I was not expecting to actually go after a pig with it.
@@Kalishir Huh. I have heard of boar hunters wanting to bring spears because they have more stopping power, but I did not know that this was still in practice. Completely different than North American hunting, because if a bear charges after being shot and you don't have bear spray, not even a shotgun is gonna stop that thing. Probably where people's skepticism is coming from.
also dude mongolians have been hunting on horseback time immemorial in fact all modern languages come from one single culture - that is the culture that conquered the horse - but I do hear ya those are good points lol
bait, man. It's not that hard to move say, 10 lbs of salt from the sea shore, over time, 20 miles from the shore. Then animals WILL find it a lot easier to access your buried salt "lick" than to walk 20 miles to the sea shore.. You can gather berries, acorns, nuts, spruce boughs, etc, into one place, making it a windfall for animals. they get used to your scent and you can rig traps/snares for them in those areas. Traps, like netting, work for you, quietly, 24-7, in many places at once. Then you keep your eyes and ears "peeled' as you check your traps and nets, being ready to take a shot or make a stalk if you get the chance.
It’s illegal to use snares for hunting in most places in the US, and is really only viable in survival situations. Using bait is also illegal for most hunting in the US unless it’s a pest or a nuisance wildlife that they consider needs to be eradicated.
Guess 'cityboys' might view movies as always depicting reality. Try hunting rabbits w/slingshot. As kids/teens knew guy could near every time hunted get a bunny and didn't move that quiet.
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That walking style is how I've hunted the last 10+ years and everytime I take someone they can't believe how easy it can be. Granted you always spook some but it's so fun it's worth it lol
An excellent summary of primitive hunting methods! Thank you for your videos!
My family has hunted this way for years and we have done very well over the years so I agree with you
Ryan Gill is Awesome.
I know that bison hunt wasn’t a perfect kill scenario, and might have even been dangerous at times, but that was an AWESOME video. On the note of persistence hunting, I wonder if it might have been for megafauna like elephants that you really don’t want to fight, but are so large they can get exhausted from running pretty quickly. Also, killing such a large animal would kind of be needed to make up for the expenditure of calories. I don’t know, just a thought.
if the area is dry enough, stone or adobe blinds can be made beside waterholes. The animals get used to the structures and they hide you very well. Naturally, you site such things to take prevailing winds into consideration
Group hunting is fun and productive. I remember one hunt with 2 companions. Three sets of eyes are better than one. The first rabbit taken was trapped under an abandoned fence and taken at close range with an arrow. The second was sunning on a small knoll. I watched as my buddy slipped around the knoll and stomped the rabbits foot, penning him long enough to pop him in the head with a blunt. I spotted another at extreme range and let fly. Of course the rabbit moved before the arrow got to him but it forced him in a hole. A forked stick twisted him out and we all came home with a rabbit apiece and after having a great day. People working together is a force to be reckoned with.
Would you consider testing bone, antler, or ivory tools/points at some point? Also, what kinds of other things might be used in an area with poor knapping stone? I’ve heard of slate arrowheads, and I tried making some. They had sharp enough points, but I just could not get the sides anywhere near as sharp as a chert arrowhead.
As far as poisons concerned, I can see poisons being used for larger game where penetration is concerned. Even then the amount of poison needed for when that’s an issue, say mammoth or mastodon, wouldn’t be necessarily feasible. Take a look at how big the doses of tranq. Darts need to be for African elephants.
If I remember correctly, I think horses were domesticated in the central Asian steppe, so horseback hunting could be more ideal for open plains game like antelope. But the last time I watched the video was awhile ago.
I'm wondering about your idea of the dog domestication process. It does make a lot of sense, and considering that it only happened once, the whole scenario does not need to be very common. However, humans had to make a conscious decision of raising a wolf pup.
That begs the question of how people started perceiving wolves as help, instead of competition? And I find it possible, that it were the wolves who could have came up with this idea first.
I mean, humans are very efficient when they process a kill, but not as efficient as wolves. They eat almost everything, while humans will inevitably leave some stuff behind. Therefore it made sense for a wolf to follow a human hunter in hopes of getting a free meal. They are natural team hunters, so I could imagine that at least some would choose to cautiously cooperate. Then we could imagine a working relationship developing.
After that, I could see that the human would consider getting a pup and trying to raise it.
I've never heard that dog domestication only happened once but they were worth it because they would alert dangers in the night, they could be used as pack animals and they could be eaten if need be
If you look it up, humans didn’t go out and capture a wolf pup and raise it. Wolves just started hanging around humans and scavenging the things humans didn’t eat and over many years they got more comfortable with each other until basically each human population had their own version of domesticated dog.
@@missourimongoose8858 All dogs are very closely related to each other. All of them are the most closely related to Eastern European wolves, even if they happen to live in East Asia or America.
That suggests that dog domestication happened only once, and likely somewhere in the West Eurasia.
@@bracoop2 If it was so simple, why wolves all over the world wouldn't do the exact same thing?
We know they didn't, because even Dingo are more closely related to the West Eurasian wolves than to any wolf anywhere close to them.
I mean, I'm with Brian on that. Humans made a conscious decision at some point and domesticated the dog. It did not "just happen".
Hello people, I was thinking that when we are considering opportunistic primitive hunting, it would be good to provide arrows equipped with blunts, or without points and to be able to quickly recognize them in the quiver (cresting?) So we will avoid shooting a squirrel or a rabbit with a stone blade. For my part, I sometimes practice shooting with a second arrow on the back of my bow, held with my bow hand. I can thus reload more quickly but above all have two different projectiles quickly. Happy hunting everyone and thanks to Ryan for the inspiration!
Question, not that I'm asking you to try, but hunting with throwing stones, is this feasible? I'm very early humans, could they kill by mass stone throwing?
Like with a rock and sling?
My great grandfather did this. He used a gun to "hunt" but just walking around he could kill just about anything probably even a deer. My dad said he could throw a baseball sized rock so hard it would crack a wood fence rail. Same thing with a short heavy stick. This is also how they used to get "yard birds" like chickens or quail, and knock squirrels, possum and raccoons out of trees and nests. They lived in a river valley filled with creeks coming off the mountains so there were always rocks everywhere.
ALSO one easy way to get game when camping is only build a small fire when needed and put it out when you're done. All kinds of animals will come into camp at night because they are curious. KEEP YOUR NIGHT VISION and get used to the dark. I've had many many nights with raccoon and possum armadillo and rats digging in my pack right beside me and you can set a snare or trap or kill them with a rock even grab them if you're quick they don't even run. I've seen panther and bobcat giving me a look over AND plenty of iguan😮.
ALSO working on something attracts their curiosity start some noisy bush craft and they will find you. I've known loggers who kept a freezer full of deer and squirrels because they were curious about the chain saw.
One last tip is to sleep on a trail or run and you will wake up with animals looking at you, especially if you snore.
speaking about walking and noise,bipedal make very dinstinct noise if you listen enogh to your prey you can learn to walk making their noise you will be much more sucsesful
the dog came to be because it wasn't aggressive, it has less adrenaline and a smaller adrenal gland. It was the wolf that was less agressive, and would follow human populations and likely fed off of waste product. So the least successful wolf became reliant upon man and has evolved since - that is they evolved specifically to work with humans even in terms of communication lol so that theory makes even more sense than you might know
also persistance hunting requires a community, lol it's a marathon. One person takes the lead, then the next person takes the lead and the lead goes to the back so that he can run at a slower pace,
Tail grabbing armadillos is like counting coup and i feel like it gives good karma.
Hey Ryan!
About the persistent hunting, here's my two cents.
A few years ago, I was crossbow hunting on a maize field that was being harvested.
I soon ran out of bolts... After a while, I saw a young boar with an injured back leg.
I grab my spear and started running after it.
It was one of those round massive pivot fields and the ground was all turned up and soft, running there was horrible for me, but also for the pig.
He was still running faster than me but not by much and I quickly got close to him everytime he stopped to take a breath.
Whenever he got close to the edge (and the thick brush) I would open up my path and rush him in again, very tiering but I was able to recover enough for the next spring while just running.
We spent over 10min like this until he eventually gave up the run and decided to face me. I longed with the spear, fell, though I was going to get gored, stood up as fast as I could and saw the pig squealing and running sideways, it's belly pierced.
This is to this day my most memorable hunting moment but going back to the persistent hunting, you don't have to run 30miles, you just have to force them to try and make you go away. At close range, humans with tools win.
Dude… tell me you don’t really hunt without telling me you don’t really hunt.
Two cents? That’s a whole story🤣
Just wondering, how exactly did you run out of bolts? I’ve literally never run out of arrows before, and I usually only carry a couple.
@@anonymousthesneaky220 boars here in Portugal start making their beds in the maiz during the sumer, by end of september, when we harvest it, there are several dozens in each plot.
We take the ocasion and kill what we can during that Day.
I had 4 bolts, shot 3, missed one. The apear was just in case I was charged, I was not expecting to actually go after a pig with it.
@@Kalishir Huh. I have heard of boar hunters wanting to bring spears because they have more stopping power, but I did not know that this was still in practice. Completely different than North American hunting, because if a bear charges after being shot and you don't have bear spray, not even a shotgun is gonna stop that thing. Probably where people's skepticism is coming from.
also dude mongolians have been hunting on horseback time immemorial in fact all modern languages come from one single culture - that is the culture that conquered the horse - but I do hear ya those are good points lol
bait, man. It's not that hard to move say, 10 lbs of salt from the sea shore, over time, 20 miles from the shore. Then animals WILL find it a lot easier to access your buried salt "lick" than to walk 20 miles to the sea shore.. You can gather berries, acorns, nuts, spruce boughs, etc, into one place, making it a windfall for animals. they get used to your scent and you can rig traps/snares for them in those areas. Traps, like netting, work for you, quietly, 24-7, in many places at once. Then you keep your eyes and ears "peeled' as you check your traps and nets, being ready to take a shot or make a stalk if you get the chance.
It’s illegal to use snares for hunting in most places in the US, and is really only viable in survival situations. Using bait is also illegal for most hunting in the US unless it’s a pest or a nuisance wildlife that they consider needs to be eradicated.
primitive hunting guide
1. run
2. throw rock
3. run again
4. stab
The verified Neanderthal game plan
Zombie turkey 😂
What Hollywood does in the movie is not happening in real life 9 out of 10 times
Guess 'cityboys' might view movies as always depicting reality.
Try hunting rabbits w/slingshot. As kids/teens knew guy could near every time hunted get a bunny and didn't move that quiet.