The algorithm probably connected me to your videos because I was watching a Comanche, Willie Pekah on the TulsaLibrary channel, explain Comanche bow and arrow construction. In the course of his talk he was lamenting how he was concerned that all his knowledge was passing into oblivion because of lack of interest. It would be interesting for the two of you to meet and compare notes on building bows and arrows and techniques in general. I’ve had a lifelong interest in Indians in general and Comanche in particular. My father’s side of the family was from western Oklahoma and I hunted as a kid along the Washita. None of my relatives were much into me being so interested in Indians but they have been in my blood since my boyhood. I greatly enjoy your channel. In a world of over-tech you are a breath of fresh air.
Dude, this is exactly how I started making bows, basically just trying to turn anything around me into something I could shoot Arrows with. Then I got sucked into the perfect Longbow making stuff. I forgot what I liked about archery, "just pullin it back and lettin it go." Thanks for bringing me back!
THIS IS MY VERY FIRST TIME WATCHING YOUR CHANNEL...THIS VIDEO IS JUST PHENOMENAL..I LOVE THE COMANCHE TRIBE..EVEN THOUGH I AM ONE BILLION PERCENT ITALIAN AMERICAN..THE DETAILS AND ACCURACY OF YOUR INFORMATION IS ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE... YOU DID A PHENOMENAL JOB.,SIR..
I was lucky enough to have a papaw that was taught by his papaw how to make Cherokee bows. We are federally recognized Eastern Band Cherokee, he taught my cousins and I how to make bows. I have made them from hickory, black locust, and oasage. I made a 36 inch Comanche style bow from osage and it has taken on a bunch of set. It had a few knots in it but I just rode with it. I have said it many times too brother "oh what have I done" but it all works out in the end haha
Up here in the great basin, my bow wood of choice is Rocky mountain juniper. Ive never had the privilege of working Osage. Juniper has tiny micro growth rings. Most staves in my stash came from 500 year old + branches. You have to back juniper with rawhide, sinew or any other hard backing or it will break. They have good compression strength and nearly zero tension strength. I have achieved weights above 75lbs. Its a really heavy arrow design is how you harness its full power. Its red dogwood, chokecherry or stone maple is what i make my arrows out of. Obsidian points. And sage grouse, mallard or canada goose fletching. Dental floss string. It's mostly rough grouse and squril i hunt every year. Congratulations on that little bow surviving tillering and stringing. I know how difficult, exhausting and rewarding this is.
Always nice to see people keeping history alive. I fine north American archery fascinating. I personally shoot a Welsh style yew longbow and I've shoot woodland bows the type used by the peoples of the old north east. I've never had a chance to shoot a short bow used by the plains people. My shortest bow is 69" I've always wondered about the difference in aiming and anchor point.
I started with a 72 inch seasoned osage stave and ended up with a 64" longbow it took a bunch of heat bending and I went a little past my target weight. It ended up 41lbs at my draw length. That's a really nice piece of osage. I had about 50hrs total in my first bow. Thanks for making these videos
I’ve made 2 bows out of mamossa one 48” and one 58” 45 to50 lbs at 28”s they shoot really well like lite and powerful. The only regret I didn’t dry they out for long but over all I was thrilled they turned out without breaking.
Man I would love to maybe buy a stave, totally appreciate this video as a native fella, my culture has all but lost our regional knowledge on crazy hardwoods for bows sadly. Beautiful work man.
I built bows for hunting I used hardwood but after I get my first Osage stave I don’t want to use any other wood because Osage orange is the best choice for build bows I build 6 bows and I’m very happy with the results
A bit of additional information.... many of the Plains tribes (Comanche included) would anchor their right hand to the chest and PUSH out with the left hand (assuming a right handed archer). This is like snap shooting or "shooting from the hip" in the Old West lore. Many horse archers would shoot this way.
Im 63 years old and i have built around a dozen bows, all while in my late 20 s early 30s. But there was no internet back then, so everything was learned the hard way. the more bows i made the shorter i kept makeing them,the,y might look like a kids bow but they are deadly. I am impresed at how fast they can shoot with only a 2o or 21 inch draw. The last bow i made was a recurve around 40 inches long the limbs flexed all the way. I heavely sinued the bow had a string made only to find out the lower limb twisted, what a bummer all that work, that was the last one. Even 35 years old those bows still shoot good,what i really want is to go hog hunting spot and stalk with stone points.
Nice work! I just finished a 26" 5 curve bow for my son. Working on a 34" composite horn bow right bow. Trying to get my camera up and running again and new video editing program figured out to start posted stuff again(mainly my son and I to look back on for memories)
Built a 63" Cherokee long bow 45 years ago. Hardest job of hand work i ever did getting down to one growth ring. Turned out perfect. Beautiful bow. Real pride in completing it. Made another one. In a rush to show a friend how it shot I broke it by trying to string it up backwards. Dumbest mistake I ever made. Just stood there after it broke thinking "wtf, stupid,stupid stupid".
quick comment Tristan, I know you wanted a video of a completed bow but, the worst that could happened is it broke at the knot which is where you cut it off anyway. I have one I made for my wife that has several knots and kinks. Looks like a snake on "hot asphalt" . Shoots great. About 36# at her draw length .. Oh, I made it about 25 years ago.... Keep it up and have fun...
So a couple of things about the short plains Indian bows. Things are very much an evolution of purpose. What I mean by that is how they were used. One, they were used primarily from horse back. This circumstance would desirous of a shorter bow than a long one during to having to maneuvering it around while mounted. Two, their were meant to develop full power at half draw also due to them being used from horseback. Three, they had to be very powerful because of the usual intended target…bison. Most specifically a bison skull. Very thick, very tough. The way hunted bison was they would ride beside a bison and shoot a short but heavy arrow through the bison’s head, killing it instantly. If they failed to do this the bison could and would turn on the hunt and very likely kill them. Hunting bison with bow and arrows was not easy and was extremely hazardous. It can be seen from this that most shots were taken at very close range. Accuracy was secondary to the bow’s ability to drive an arrow through a bison skull. Plains Indian bows are truly a marvel of a tool being adapted to a specific purpose… the harvesting of bison. I can’t help but admire the testicular fortitude of the hunter that used bows like this.
I made my first Osage self bow 30yrs ago. I met Dean Torges once, you may be familiar with his work. I made mostly eastern woodlands style, but played with other historical styles. I still own/shoot several in Osage, bamboo-backed Osage, white ash, hickory, and black locust, but haven't made one for many years. I got an snaky Osage stave I've been looking at for years. Might be time to make shavings again. I just subscribed 😊
Ive made bows when i was 11 years old now im getting back to it. I didnt have any power tools and stuff but i made really good arrows and bows but i was never good at target shooting cuz i nver realised that i have to tilt the bow so the arrow wont flop
That's pretty amazing. I shoot a Bear Magnum Recurve, I'm comfortable with it a 50lbs, I think it would take me a LOT of work to shot 60 lbs FROM THE CHEST at that! And by the way, I have cut Osage orange, I do know that was a LOT of work. Congratulations on sticking with it!
Great content as usual!! If anyone is in the uk and wants to make a plains style bow but has no access to osage, hawthorn is a killer bow wood for this design.
I have made several self bows from black locust, which is a great bow wood-definitely second to osage orange, but very good still. One of my favorites is 36" pyramidal shape that is 2" by the handle. I have a stave of osage orange from a tree I planted that I am crafting now. I live in southern California where one must search a little harder to find suitable staves. Thanks for the video!
Tristan I Took a bow build class 2 years ago with Master Bow builder Tony Pike out of Nevada Mo. It took me 3 days sun up to sundown conservatively while working outside chasing the ring on a 62" Osage bow stave with a draw knife. Finished on day six. 52" lbs at 28" draw pull. Afterwards I took his Atlatl class and walked away with a nice set. If anyone is interested in taking his classes he offers them 2 times a year. @Ancient Wisdom Survival.
I live in Australia and for my first few years of building bows i had to settle with wild plum, elm ash and black locust, which actually make very capable weapons, especially black locust. But just over a year ago, i was lucky enough to find a line of over a hundred old osage orange trees planted by the old timers back in the 1800s and even more, younger trees grown from the dropped fruit😅. it was literally like finding a goldmine , its hard work harvesting the stuff tho, its got some nasty inch long thorns and because the tangled way it grows, its almost guaranteed to get hung up, 😂 bloody worth it tho, best bow wood on the planet along with yew apparently.
I made a bow I saw a Cherokee dude build on TH-cam. I used a couple thin bamboo reeds and twisted them together, tied a few rings of stings going up it, then wrapped a spiral of string up it and a big wrap for the handle. not too powerful but could hunt small squirrels and stuff and could be good fishing bow. real cool bow idea cause all I used was a few free bamboo reeds, and 1 spool of nylon string from Home Depot.
Looks like the center of the bow contributes to the action, rather than it having a large stiff handle. I guess that also plays a part in how such a short bow can perform like that? Awesome work!
4:32 Just built a 25 inch bow out of blue or white ash(Im not sure its a branch off of a tree in my yard) and it works pretty well(for a first non breaking bow) it’s just not straight because the stave I started with wasn’t, but I didn’t think it would turn out this good🤣🤣
That's Quanah Parker in the thumb nail. His mother was captured by the Comanche and then rescued many years later. She had forgotten how to speak English. The Parker family still lives in Texas.There is a lot written on her being brought back and people trying to help her but at that point she was Comanche and wanted to go home.
that's incredible for such a short piece of wood. it really whacks the target. only question is accuracy. can you be consistent with it. we know the Comanche were dead on with it. just with traditional bow shooting theory of anchor points, vertical bow etc. this is just SO different
Nice job of the historical bow ! I made a short bow just like it once, made it out of Ipe (Home Depot) board with the straightest grain I could find....Its a super high SG wood and it made a little killer just like yours...fast short draw bow.... Osage would be better and certainly more authentic ! But here on the West Coast, Osage is hard to find unless you have a buddy with bowyer pals in the middle of the country
I guess no need for a arrow rest? I think I personally would need a some to have a consistent shot ... but I'm not nearly as inclined to instinctive shooting as you. Love your videos.
I have a chunk of yew that I cut off of my dad's property, close to the Mt Hood national forest in Oregon. I'm still seasoning it, and can't wait for it to be ready to carve! Good luck to you and yours.
Oho my fellow human in life you have to make mistakes to perfect art you have to making bows and if it doesn't work then find another tree or learn about trees and which one is good and you can find
building an osage orange/horseapple/bowdark bow is tough even with modern power tools the wood is very hard, also if you dont have some kind of dust collection get ready to have a yellow shop from all that yellow sawdust ! its even more work if you search out a decent limb quarter it season it at least a year ! also its a gnarly tree to start with one last thing do it while your young about Tristins age .
Would I be right in thinking that such a short bow would transfer less energy to the arrow than a longer bow of the same draw weight? And it would be harder to shoot accurately over longer distances? Would be interesting to see the limits of this mini-bow tested.
Yes the stroke length matters when transferring energy. That said a deer can be shot through with a #45 bow. Ryan Gill at @huntprimitive9918 hunted bisons with a #55 bow with a 21" draw length. Check out his channel it is awesome and very educational.
Yes, they were absolutely used in war. The Comanches held back and even pushed out the Spanish, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans for 200 years with these bows.
I almost bought a very short bow like this. I also want to make a very short bow I watched a video of an old native American one time and he was talking about how most hunting bows were very small
Bro your video are so good but I want to say you you are a good hunter please make video on how to improve target with arrows please make video love from India
So I'm going to try a 4 ft bowl for my two grandchildren I'm going to use hickory? Or Birch. And I'm cuz it eliminates the knots in the wood as best as you can
В детстве дедушка сделал мне лук из клёна и капроновой нити . И стрелы тоже из клёна наконечники у них был из гвоздей . Оперения не было . В сарай втыкались хорошо
have u looked into all the theory crafting and techniques, that Native American bows and archers used..? its quite interesting and unique, and they also had lost tech, that allowed them an incredible rate of fire, and that while moving or in various positions etc.. a much more instinctive style of shooting as well.. if i could make, and had multiple indian style bows..i wod def look into training some of those techniques.. fast shooting multiple arrows accuratly while moving.. etc. Lars Anderson has also done amazing work and showcasing on various shooting tech n stuff. but im guessing if u an archer u prolly know this stuff.. i guess maybe as an info for others.. its also sad when stuff, skillz n tech like this gets lost.. cuz the commanches def had some amazing shooting skillz. feats that seem shear impossible. (of course most indian shooting wasnt very high powered, or far distance etc. but more close range moving and firing multiple arrows in quick succesion, type shooting style. very different than almost all other forms of successful archery in the past. and seemingly a sweetspot between powerful and small hunting style bows. also how much easier they were to make, then say european longbows, or other types, or composite bows etc.. usually i wouldnt expect a small indian bow to be very usefull in human combat, but apperantly they found a sweetspot. and of course, what shud never be unconsidered, is the huge amount of shooting and training and indian would have had, starting at young ages, shooting everyday, in an instinctive type of way. so they had skills and mastery that noone today has. as well as a style of shooting that is very different from how modern archery is done and tought. so u dont even really have folks, growing up learning to shoot with the technique that the indians used.. making it very hard to judge wich is " supierior". anyways, archery is such a dope strangly pysche connected past time. can only recommend to anyone. it has something so primal in it, u can feel the joy and passion a top hit gives u, like our folks n ancestors for ages, had.. being that a succesful shot meant survival, joy, pleasure, and a base to sustain life for u and ur family.
Website sold out before I could even get the video uploaded. Thanks guys!
When will get more man I stared to prep for wats coming so I'm very interested
Is there a way to order a bow with case and quiver from you?
Is there a source for seasoned bow staves with wide growth rings and without knots for someone who is making one for the first time?
What’s your website? I can’t find it anywhere
@5:27 you show the end grain...it looks like the ring showing on the back is the darker brown one not the yellow one.
is that correct?
The algorithm probably connected me to your videos because I was watching a Comanche, Willie Pekah on the TulsaLibrary channel, explain Comanche bow and arrow construction. In the course of his talk he was lamenting how he was concerned that all his knowledge was passing into oblivion because of lack of interest. It would be interesting for the two of you to meet and compare notes on building bows and arrows and techniques in general. I’ve had a lifelong interest in Indians in general and Comanche in particular. My father’s side of the family was from western Oklahoma and I hunted as a kid along the Washita. None of my relatives were much into me being so interested in Indians but they have been in my blood since my boyhood. I greatly enjoy your channel. In a world of over-tech you are a breath of fresh air.
I believe he recently passed away would’ve been very cool to actually meet him. Thanks for watching!
Dude, this is exactly how I started making bows, basically just trying to turn anything around me into something I could shoot Arrows with. Then I got sucked into the perfect Longbow making stuff. I forgot what I liked about archery, "just pullin it back and lettin it go." Thanks for bringing me back!
THIS IS MY VERY FIRST TIME WATCHING YOUR CHANNEL...THIS VIDEO IS JUST PHENOMENAL..I LOVE THE COMANCHE TRIBE..EVEN THOUGH I AM ONE BILLION PERCENT ITALIAN AMERICAN..THE DETAILS AND ACCURACY OF YOUR INFORMATION IS ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE...
YOU DID A PHENOMENAL JOB.,SIR..
Nice work! All ways been amazed at the ingenuity of the native people! Never built a bow but have a recurve and shoot instinctively!
I was lucky enough to have a papaw that was taught by his papaw how to make Cherokee bows. We are federally recognized Eastern Band Cherokee, he taught my cousins and I how to make bows. I have made them from hickory, black locust, and oasage. I made a 36 inch Comanche style bow from osage and it has taken on a bunch of set. It had a few knots in it but I just rode with it. I have said it many times too brother "oh what have I done" but it all works out in the end haha
Up here in the great basin, my bow wood of choice is Rocky mountain juniper. Ive never had the privilege of working Osage.
Juniper has tiny micro growth rings. Most staves in my stash came from 500 year old + branches.
You have to back juniper with rawhide, sinew or any other hard backing or it will break.
They have good compression strength and nearly zero tension strength.
I have achieved weights above 75lbs. Its a really heavy arrow design is how you harness its full power.
Its red dogwood, chokecherry or stone maple is what i make my arrows out of. Obsidian points. And sage grouse, mallard or canada goose fletching. Dental floss string.
It's mostly rough grouse and squril i hunt every year.
Congratulations on that little bow surviving tillering and stringing. I know how difficult, exhausting and rewarding this is.
Always nice to see people keeping history alive. I fine north American archery fascinating. I personally shoot a Welsh style yew longbow and I've shoot woodland bows the type used by the peoples of the old north east. I've never had a chance to shoot a short bow used by the plains people. My shortest bow is 69" I've always wondered about the difference in aiming and anchor point.
Its amazing how much stress Osage can handle, superb bow!
I started with a 72 inch seasoned osage stave and ended up with a 64" longbow it took a bunch of heat bending and I went a little past my target weight. It ended up 41lbs at my draw length. That's a really nice piece of osage. I had about 50hrs total in my first bow. Thanks for making these videos
This is one of the most amazing bows I've seen! Great build!
I’ve made 2 bows out of mamossa one 48” and one 58” 45 to50 lbs at 28”s they shoot really well like lite and powerful. The only regret I didn’t dry they out for long but over all I was thrilled they turned out without breaking.
Man I would love to maybe buy a stave, totally appreciate this video as a native fella, my culture has all but lost our regional knowledge on crazy hardwoods for bows sadly. Beautiful work man.
I built bows for hunting I used hardwood but after I get my first Osage stave I don’t want to use any other wood because Osage orange is the best choice for build bows I build 6 bows and I’m very happy with the results
Gotta be a single man...love it :). Good job and great video...thank you!
A bit of additional information.... many of the Plains tribes (Comanche included) would anchor their right hand to the chest and PUSH out with the left hand (assuming a right handed archer). This is like snap shooting or "shooting from the hip" in the Old West lore. Many horse archers would shoot this way.
Im 63 years old and i have built around a dozen bows, all while in my late 20 s early 30s. But there was no internet back then, so everything was learned the hard way. the more bows i made the shorter i kept makeing them,the,y might look like a kids bow but they are deadly. I am impresed at how fast they can shoot with only a 2o or 21 inch draw. The last bow i made was a recurve around 40 inches long the limbs flexed all the way. I heavely sinued the bow had a string made only to find out the lower limb twisted, what a bummer all that work, that was the last one. Even 35 years old those bows still shoot good,what i really want is to go hog hunting spot and stalk with stone points.
Nice work! I just finished a 26" 5 curve bow for my son. Working on a 34" composite horn bow right bow. Trying to get my camera up and running again and new video editing program figured out to start posted stuff again(mainly my son and I to look back on for memories)
That was a sick shot from the truck at the start!!! W
This is awesome! I love this style short bow I want to make my own so bad! Thank you for posting this! Please more bow builds if possible
Built a 63" Cherokee long bow 45 years ago. Hardest job of hand work i ever did getting down to one growth ring. Turned out perfect. Beautiful bow. Real pride in completing it. Made another one. In a rush to show a friend how it shot I broke it by trying to string it up backwards. Dumbest mistake I ever made. Just stood there after it broke thinking "wtf, stupid,stupid stupid".
quick comment Tristan, I know you wanted a video of a completed bow but, the worst that could happened is it broke at the knot which is where you cut it off anyway. I have one I made for my wife that has several knots and kinks. Looks like a snake on "hot asphalt" . Shoots great. About 36# at her draw length .. Oh, I made it about 25 years ago.... Keep it up and have fun...
So a couple of things about the short plains Indian bows. Things are very much an evolution of purpose. What I mean by that is how they were used.
One, they were used primarily from horse back. This circumstance would desirous of a shorter bow than a long one during to having to maneuvering it around while mounted.
Two, their were meant to develop full power at half draw also due to them being used from horseback.
Three, they had to be very powerful because of the usual intended target…bison. Most specifically a bison skull. Very thick, very tough.
The way hunted bison was they would ride beside a bison and shoot a short but heavy arrow through the bison’s head, killing it instantly. If they failed to do this the bison could and would turn on the hunt and very likely kill them. Hunting bison with bow and arrows was not easy and was extremely hazardous. It can be seen from this that most shots were taken at very close range. Accuracy was secondary to the bow’s ability to drive an arrow through a bison skull.
Plains Indian bows are truly a marvel of a tool being adapted to a specific purpose… the harvesting of bison. I can’t help but admire the testicular fortitude of the hunter that used bows like this.
I made my first Osage self bow 30yrs ago. I met Dean Torges once, you may be familiar with his work. I made mostly eastern woodlands style, but played with other historical styles. I still own/shoot several in Osage, bamboo-backed Osage, white ash, hickory, and black locust, but haven't made one for many years. I got an snaky Osage stave I've been looking at for years. Might be time to make shavings again. I just subscribed 😊
Ive made bows when i was 11 years old now im getting back to it. I didnt have any power tools and stuff but i made really good arrows and bows but i was never good at target shooting cuz i nver realised that i have to tilt the bow so the arrow wont flop
That's pretty amazing. I shoot a Bear Magnum Recurve, I'm comfortable with it a 50lbs, I think it would take me a LOT of work to shot 60 lbs FROM THE CHEST at that! And by the way, I have cut Osage orange, I do know that was a LOT of work. Congratulations on sticking with it!
Do you know the draw weight these bows tended to have? Also what are the dimensions of the bow that you use in your other videos?
Great content as usual!! If anyone is in the uk and wants to make a plains style bow but has no access to osage, hawthorn is a killer bow wood for this design.
I have made several self bows from black locust, which is a great bow wood-definitely second to osage orange, but very good still. One of my favorites is 36" pyramidal shape that is 2" by the handle. I have a stave of osage orange from a tree I planted that I am crafting now. I live in southern California where one must search a little harder to find suitable staves. Thanks for the video!
Tristan I Took a bow build class 2 years ago with Master Bow builder Tony Pike out of Nevada Mo. It took me 3 days sun up to sundown conservatively while working outside chasing the ring on a 62" Osage bow stave with a draw knife. Finished on day six. 52" lbs at 28" draw pull. Afterwards I took his Atlatl class and walked away with a nice set. If anyone is interested in taking his classes he offers them 2 times a year. @Ancient Wisdom Survival.
Very well done. I can actually follow it. Can't wait to start my project.
Muy buen trabajo , le sacaste un líbrame increíble a ese cortito , felicitaciones..
Love these videos! You do an exceptional job.
I live in Australia and for my first few years of building bows i had to settle with wild plum, elm ash and black locust, which actually make very capable weapons, especially black locust. But just over a year ago, i was lucky enough to find a line of over a hundred old osage orange trees planted by the old timers back in the 1800s and even more, younger trees grown from the dropped fruit😅. it was literally like finding a goldmine , its hard work harvesting the stuff tho, its got some nasty inch long thorns and because the tangled way it grows, its almost guaranteed to get hung up, 😂 bloody worth it tho, best bow wood on the planet along with yew apparently.
From my reading I understand the Welsh were very fond of elm for their longbows. If used yew and Osage but have never had a chance to try elm.
I made a bow I saw a Cherokee dude build on TH-cam. I used a couple thin bamboo reeds and twisted them together, tied a few rings of stings going up it, then wrapped a spiral of string up it and a big wrap for the handle. not too powerful but could hunt small squirrels and stuff and could be good fishing bow. real cool bow idea cause all I used was a few free bamboo reeds, and 1 spool of nylon string from Home Depot.
Great video mate. Amazing little weapon
Looks like the center of the bow contributes to the action, rather than it having a large stiff handle. I guess that also plays a part in how such a short bow can perform like that?
Awesome work!
Where did you purchase the knife you used in the video???? Much appreciated love your channel
Outstanding!!!!!!! Keep up the good work!!!!!!!
Bro, I throughly enjoyed this video.
Nice little bow! If you're into the shorties you should look into the sinew backed yew and incense cedar bows of Northern California.
This is really cool. You seem like you'd be an awesome friend.
4:32 Just built a 25 inch bow out of blue or white ash(Im not sure its a branch off of a tree in my yard) and it works pretty well(for a first non breaking bow) it’s just not straight because the stave I started with wasn’t, but I didn’t think it would turn out this good🤣🤣
That's Quanah Parker in the thumb nail. His mother was captured by the Comanche and then rescued many years later. She had forgotten how to speak English. The Parker family still lives in Texas.There is a lot written on her being brought back and people trying to help her but at that point she was Comanche and wanted to go home.
The original snub-nosed 38!
I made a primtive stick bow with just a knife it pulls 20 pounds at 20 inches. First bow ever
Have you ever done a comparison between the native American bow and the English longbow?
that's incredible for such a short piece of wood. it really whacks the target. only question is accuracy. can you be consistent with it. we know the Comanche were dead on with it. just with traditional bow shooting theory of anchor points, vertical bow etc. this is just SO different
Nice job of the historical bow ! I made a short bow just like it once, made it out of Ipe (Home Depot) board with the straightest grain I could find....Its a super high SG wood and it made a little killer just like yours...fast short draw bow.... Osage would be better and certainly more authentic ! But here on the West Coast, Osage is hard to find unless you have a buddy with bowyer pals in the middle of the country
This was very interesting thank you😊
non steel crossbow bows are like this so its not THAT surprising but this was very cool
Looks like your making a crossbow prod
2:08 true but it is so much easier and faster when you use specialised tools!
How is one suppose to visit your website if it isnt posted any where? I was hoping to look at the arrow heads.
he posted that it was soldout in a short amount of time
I guess no need for a arrow rest? I think I personally would need a some to have a consistent shot ... but I'm not nearly as inclined to instinctive shooting as you. Love your videos.
Where do you get your bow staves? I found some on eBay and attempted one a year or so ago. Used a draw knife.
How much would you pay for one? I sell stuff on ebay and am always outside and know where theres tons of osage orange
Just trying to see if its worth it or not to go gather and split it. Also what size and length would you be interested in.
greetings every1.thats incredible,fantastic
My first bow sucked, but I eventually made several hickory bows over 80 pounds and had to find people who could shoot them
Hey Tristan you said you had more Osage orange staves I've always wanted to try to make a bow with my drawing knife I've only made board bows
I have good hickory where I live and made some good bows with it they is no Osage here and hickory is good bow wood
I have a chunk of yew that I cut off of my dad's property, close to the Mt Hood national forest in Oregon. I'm still seasoning it, and can't wait for it to be ready to carve! Good luck to you and yours.
Looking forward to getting a bow at that length.
I built a one of those years ago I backed mine with deer tendons
Incredible work! I just uploaded a few videos with my comanche bow! I hope you like it!
How can I get a Comanche bow
Oho my fellow human in life you have to make mistakes to perfect art you have to making bows and if it doesn't work then find another tree or learn about trees and which one is good and you can find
Quanta Parker was a relative of my grandma
@tristinriddle101 do you use regular length arrows? or do you use shorter ones for camanche style bow?
I once made an ultra tiny bow and the power surprised me
Excellent!
building an osage orange/horseapple/bowdark bow is tough even with modern power tools the wood is very hard, also if you dont have some kind of dust collection get ready to have a yellow shop from all that yellow sawdust ! its even more work if you search out a decent limb quarter it season it at least a year ! also its a gnarly tree to start with one last thing do it while your young about Tristins age .
I think the bow is longer than it looks in the picture because I thought Quanah Parker was very tall
Would I be right in thinking that such a short bow would transfer less energy to the arrow than a longer bow of the same draw weight? And it would be harder to shoot accurately over longer distances? Would be interesting to see the limits of this mini-bow tested.
Yes the stroke length matters when transferring energy. That said a deer can be shot through with a #45 bow.
Ryan Gill at @huntprimitive9918 hunted bisons with a #55 bow with a 21" draw length. Check out his channel it is awesome and very educational.
Would the bow be used in war? Mongols used short bows on horseback.
It seems like these are specialized for hunting.
A bow that can shoot through a deer can shoot through a human too. Medieval war bows were heavy because they went up against steel armor.
Yes, they were absolutely used in war. The Comanches held back and even pushed out the Spanish, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans for 200 years with these bows.
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Where can I find a Osage stave to make a bow with?
a hedge tree
Very cool… Did you tan the Buck skin yourself?
I tried to build a bow with a cheap chunk of wood from Lowe's I think red oak. But I was impatient and cracked it before I got it flexible enough
I'm ahead of you . Mine is creapmertile. A common decorative flower tree. Full length draw at maybe 42 inches.
Trying to buold a flat bow from ash but the widenes and the crown is to stiff so i wil try to thin it out to makw it more like a Comanche bow
I almost bought a very short bow like this. I also want to make a very short bow I watched a video of an old native American one time and he was talking about how most hunting bows were very small
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That looks a lot like Osage. Is it?
How can I order one an Osage with a dozen arrows? I’m a 26 draw @60 lb?
I think that leader lived his twilight in Saskatchewan.
Probably more compatible with short arrows… that will be perfect tandem
Nice!!
Hi I’m interested in building a bow have u created a Penobscot bow
I built a osage bow and it broke in the tillering maybe i did let it dry enough. Need to try again 😮
That's a comparable pull weight to a modern English longbow. I'd like to see how the same style bow made out of English Yew wood would compare
Do you wil hunt with that bow and wil make a move?
You know exactly what Comanche bows are and arrows,,,don't let no-one say else
where can i buy one? or can you make me?
So I'm going to try a 4 ft bowl for my two grandchildren I'm going to use hickory? Or Birch. And I'm cuz it eliminates the knots in the wood as best as you can
If you Chase the growth ring well you don't have to worry about knots
I built one with bamboo and natural fiber string and it was strong but also shot very crooked partially my fault
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Please make another bow
Очень познавательно!
В детстве дедушка сделал мне лук из клёна и капроновой нити . И стрелы тоже из клёна наконечники у них был из гвоздей . Оперения не было . В сарай втыкались хорошо
I tried building a bow from Osage and it ended up breaking in half and I made a wooden machete from one and a knife from the other for my kids
or can i have that one please?
have u looked into all the theory crafting and techniques, that Native American bows and archers used..? its quite interesting and unique, and they also had lost tech, that allowed them an incredible rate of fire, and that while moving or in various positions etc.. a much more instinctive style of shooting as well.. if i could make, and had multiple indian style bows..i wod def look into training some of those techniques.. fast shooting multiple arrows accuratly while moving.. etc. Lars Anderson has also done amazing work and showcasing on various shooting tech n stuff. but im guessing if u an archer u prolly know this stuff.. i guess maybe as an info for others.. its also sad when stuff, skillz n tech like this gets lost.. cuz the commanches def had some amazing shooting skillz. feats that seem shear impossible. (of course most indian shooting wasnt very high powered, or far distance etc. but more close range moving and firing multiple arrows in quick succesion, type shooting style. very different than almost all other forms of successful archery in the past. and seemingly a sweetspot between powerful and small hunting style bows. also how much easier they were to make, then say european longbows, or other types, or composite bows etc.. usually i wouldnt expect a small indian bow to be very usefull in human combat, but apperantly they found a sweetspot. and of course, what shud never be unconsidered, is the huge amount of shooting and training and indian would have had, starting at young ages, shooting everyday, in an instinctive type of way. so they had skills and mastery that noone today has. as well as a style of shooting that is very different from how modern archery is done and tought. so u dont even really have folks, growing up learning to shoot with the technique that the indians used.. making it very hard to judge wich is " supierior". anyways, archery is such a dope strangly pysche connected past time. can only recommend to anyone. it has something so primal in it, u can feel the joy and passion a top hit gives u, like our folks n ancestors for ages, had.. being that a succesful shot meant survival, joy, pleasure, and a base to sustain life for u and ur family.