Had the pleasure of meeting Donny several months back when he stayed with my son for a week. He and my son were using their throwing sticks and Donny had his take off into a rough patch of area on my son's property and it appeared to have been swallowed up by the brush. While at my son's this past Monday I said , Let's go looking for that throwing stick because the underbrush is dying and we might find it. Sure enough, 5 minutes into the hunt I found it. Now I ain't gonna lie I tossed it a few times myself because It's not every day you get to handle and toss a Quality made tossing stick that is owned by your favorite ALONE participant. Well I had my son take my photo holding it and pointing to it like, Hey Donny !!! Loose something lol. Well I'm HAPPY to say it will be shipped back to Colorado to its rightful owner very soon. Hopefully He can make it back to Ohio again soon and Just maybe I can toss it again, lol.
Great tutorial and reminds me of the old days and the Rabbit Stick gettogethers with some very good primitive instructors . The throwing stick competitions were a blast . Thanks again .
Thanks. Now they have become pretty unobtainable in ways. List the focus I guess. Check out my TH-cam channel Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks for full videos. Thanks for watching.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks The original concept of Rabbit Stick morphed into a flea market atmosphere for selling ferro rods , mora knifes . Most of the customer herd have no desire to sit through an actual workshop showing primitive skills .
Hey man like the work. I'm from Australia and just wanted to let you know that the rabbit stick is called a boomerang. Aboriginals used them to take out kangaroos rabbits birds and other small game...again like what you do it's unique and it's nice to see someone live of the land and appreciate it..
Yeah but the australian aboriginals call it boomerang, but they were used all over the world in past. I know boomerang is australian icon though. Its really just hunting throwing stick even egyptian mummies were sometimes buried with them. There are even ones carved out of mammoth ivory i think found in europe, and also native americans used sticks like these to the modern times. I at least think the returning ones are more like toy. Any projectile weapon you want to fly as straight as possible to hit moving targets with, but the returning sticks goes in arcs basicly. Maybe they could be used for big masses of flying birds idk. Its kinda like everyone in english calls the spear lever stick thing atlatl because some native americans called it that, but it existed all over the world including in australia. I think some people also thinks boomerangs as the returning ones only
I'm addicted because of You... :-) I do rabbit stick every time I can ... All in oak at the moment, but I will try other woods. And I made a little one for my 8 year old son, he loves it! So, thanks!!!
I’ve been watching your TH-cam shorts a little here and there. I’m watching Alone season 6 right now and I couldn’t get the idea of learning to carve a throwing stick out of my head, so I searched it on TH-cam. I saw this video, saw the thumbnail, saw the channel name, remembered the shorts, waiiiiiiiiit [click sounds in head] OH ITS THE SAME GUY!!! I then saw that this video was already chillin in my watch later playlist. It has been moved to sooner in my watching queue. I instantly loved all the shorts a lot more.
Aboriginal boomerang are exactly this. Everyone thinks that a boomerang comes back to you, but as a tool 99%of the time they were throwing it at small game so towards the ground. So it hit the ground. It wasn't coming back. I love the old throw sticks, cus it takes determination to succeed in a hunt. Love your channel donny!
Donny im curious how you learned all this stuff. im new to your channel as of today but love this kind of educational stuff. much love brother keep up the good work and stay safe my friend
Very informative. I really think this should be revisited with graphical explanations (eg. simple artistic cross views) and a higher quality video. Otherwise, again, very informative. Thanks for sharing.
Great video! That’s almost like the original Aboriginal Kylie. I’m trying to look around for branches or fallen trees to make some like that. I’ve done a couple of boomerang style throwing sticks that fly at least 70 or so feet. But if you fine tune a Kylie well, you could get a range of 90 yards or more. 👍
I have all different types of sticks with different range capabilities...I think that is the fun part to see what you can make out of a stick or branch!
Cool video , I have subscribed . Lovely area you're working in there with the pines and the boulders , would be a nice place to camp out , decent fire and some food and beers.
Addictive show, yes many Australians make trational throw sticks and boomerang's its the roo fat and bee's wax thats the hard to find, plus you rub it with a smooth rock to a refective finish. Like a plane wing, the difference in traditional boomerang and decor one is plywood ones are to sell to holliday makers, Australian hardwood ones have lasted 40000yrs even more. Museums date them bucause of this, definitely paleo area. People evoled out of Africa but tools evoled from out of Australia, Hypothesis/theory.
I live in southern Illinois Williamson county in the USA. What kinda rock can use for makin arrowheads and spears? I'm gonna try to make a rabbit stick a little bit later
NEVER HAVE USED ONE THESE BUT DINT SEE MUCH COMPLICATE BECAUSE I HAVE MADE MI OWN PERSONAL BOWS AND ARROWS BOWS FROM BAMBO , AMERICAN ASH , JUNIPER , CHERRY , MESQUUTE AND WOOD D' ARCK ( #1 BEST ) ARROWS FROM : BAMBO , REED DOG WOOD , PINE , CEDER , OAK THANKS FOR SHARING YOU AKNOLEGMENT AND BLESSINGS FROM TEXAS .
What is the difference in throwing sticks between those that are for longer distances, and those that are for shorter distances? How much difference between larger and smaller prey?
I'm guessing you have to practice alot to get accurate enough to hit anything. Looks like the animal would have a good chance of avoiding being hit by the moving stick. It just looks like it travels kind of slow. But I'm willing to give it a try.
Great question. Honestly...both will work. A rabbit stick or throw stick covers greater surface area upon impact. With proper airfoil design a rabbit stick can be thrown of excess of 150 yards. Stocks go farther, straighter and are more accurate. Sticks can also be used against large game targeting the legs causing a break and immobility of the prey.
Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks Survival Wow, thanks for the quick reply! That makes sense, I’d then imagine you’d typically want to use the densest wood at your disposal so you’re getting the best of both worlds... I just found your channel and am binging your videos :-) fits with my interest in experimental archaeology quite well! Loving what I’ve watched so far, thank you!
Micah Spruth-Janssen no worries. I will be uploading some more videos soon with a focus on Mesolithic technologies that are long forgotten and never employed.
Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks Survival fantastic! You’ve got yourself a new subscriber for sure! I really appreciate your focus on ancient techniques, our ancestors were just as smart as us and it’s fascinating to see how they problem solved just as we do today. I’d love to keep hearing the “whys” of the past. We have lots of evidence for the what in the form of artifacts, but your experience actually using them is invaluable to understanding why things were the way they where!
Season the wood prior to carving. for the best results you would cut the stave to 6" longer on each end and then seal the ends with glue(or pitch), and let it dry slowly through its bark for 6months or more. That would produce a very hard and stable piece to work from.
You should learn how to make an Aboriginal boomerang same concept as this but thrown properly they come back amazing bit of engineering from my ancestor's from over 60thousand years ago
I just stumbled across your channel. It's great! I SUBSCRIBED!! If you have a chance, take a peek at mine. All outdoors stuff, trapping, hunting, prospecting....I think you would like it. Thanks!
Had the pleasure of meeting Donny several months back when he stayed with my son for a week. He and my son were using their throwing sticks and Donny had his take off into a rough patch of area on my son's property and it appeared to have been swallowed up by the brush. While at my son's this past Monday I said , Let's go looking for that throwing stick because the underbrush is dying and we might find it. Sure enough, 5 minutes into the hunt I found it. Now I ain't gonna lie I tossed it a few times myself because It's not every day you get to handle and toss a Quality made tossing stick that is owned by your favorite ALONE participant. Well I had my son take my photo holding it and pointing to it like, Hey Donny !!! Loose something lol. Well I'm HAPPY to say it will be shipped back to Colorado to its rightful owner very soon. Hopefully He can make it back to Ohio again soon and Just maybe I can toss it again, lol.
@@mikephillips5525 cool ur lucky to meet him
That sound after the throw makes this all the more satisfying 👌🏻
Great tutorial and reminds me of the old days and the Rabbit Stick gettogethers with some very good primitive instructors . The throwing stick competitions were a blast .
Thanks again .
Thanks. Now they have become pretty unobtainable in ways. List the focus I guess. Check out my TH-cam channel Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks for full videos. Thanks for watching.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks What has become unobtainable? THX
@@QuantumMechanic_88 the gatherings…to pricey and full of drama.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks The original concept of Rabbit Stick morphed into a flea market atmosphere for selling ferro rods , mora knifes . Most of the customer herd have no desire to sit through an actual workshop showing primitive skills .
@@QuantumMechanic_88 exactly. It’s not the same. Commercial in every way. It’s lost it’s meaning and I stopped going several years ago.
Would splitting the branch be better than shaving off one side? Obviously it would still need smoothing.
What a treat! I love primitive hunting. Side note; I have seen thousands of airfoils and that is what you created.
Hey man like the work. I'm from Australia and just wanted to let you know that the rabbit stick is called a boomerang. Aboriginals used them to take out kangaroos rabbits birds and other small game...again like what you do it's unique and it's nice to see someone live of the land and appreciate it..
If you make it on more of an angle you can make it to return to you if it missed the target. I also left out they also used them to fight other tribes
They also have fishing ones.
Yeah but the australian aboriginals call it boomerang, but they were used all over the world in past. I know boomerang is australian icon though. Its really just hunting throwing stick even egyptian mummies were sometimes buried with them. There are even ones carved out of mammoth ivory i think found in europe, and also native americans used sticks like these to the modern times. I at least think the returning ones are more like toy. Any projectile weapon you want to fly as straight as possible to hit moving targets with, but the returning sticks goes in arcs basicly. Maybe they could be used for big masses of flying birds idk.
Its kinda like everyone in english calls the spear lever stick thing atlatl because some native americans called it that, but it existed all over the world including in australia. I think some people also thinks boomerangs as the returning ones only
@@lalli8152 yep the mammoths ivory one was found in poland i believe? could be wrong
There werent any rabbits in australia til the white men bought them from europe. That was 30,000 years after the boomerang appeared
I'm addicted because of You... :-)
I do rabbit stick every time I can ... All in oak at the moment, but I will try other woods. And I made a little one for my 8 year old son, he loves it! So, thanks!!!
How many rabbits did you got ?
I’ve been watching your TH-cam shorts a little here and there. I’m watching Alone season 6 right now and I couldn’t get the idea of learning to carve a throwing stick out of my head, so I searched it on TH-cam. I saw this video, saw the thumbnail, saw the channel name, remembered the shorts, waiiiiiiiiit [click sounds in head] OH ITS THE SAME GUY!!!
I then saw that this video was already chillin in my watch later playlist. It has been moved to sooner in my watching queue.
I instantly loved all the shorts a lot more.
I have to say, your video and teaching method is the best i have seen to date. Ill promote you a bit in my circles because you really deserve it.
Appreciate that greatly. Thanks for watching. I appreciate you and all you do.
Love these longer in depth videos
Glad you like them! Appreciate you watching!
Love what you do brother! So awesome to know these things won't be forgotten in time.
Aboriginal boomerang are exactly this. Everyone thinks that a boomerang comes back to you, but as a tool 99%of the time they were throwing it at small game so towards the ground. So it hit the ground. It wasn't coming back. I love the old throw sticks, cus it takes determination to succeed in a hunt. Love your channel donny!
I really enjoy learning new things from your channel and this was another great project.
Well explained and enjoyable to watch, thanks for sharing.
Donny im curious how you learned all this stuff. im new to your channel as of today but love this kind of educational stuff. much love brother keep up the good work and stay safe my friend
Just books and a natural curiosity of the world. It’s been a life pursuit literally. Thanks appreciate your kind words b
That’s the sharpest axe I’ve ever seen. It even sounds sharp!
I’m an actual duck neck it’s a sharp one for sure. I keep it sharp and ready.
Excellent vid! Nicely explanatory with an enthusiastic style.
That turned out well. Nice job.
U must have changed your ways. Currently I only see u using stone tools. Nice!👍👍😁🇺🇸
Very informative. I really think this should be revisited with graphical explanations (eg. simple artistic cross views) and a higher quality video. Otherwise, again, very informative. Thanks for sharing.
ive beed doing this for decades..I love learning new things..."enviroment will dictate"
Natural hunting sticks handcrafted rocks. Nice job. I have a boomerang and kylies too. Cheers from Brasil.
Awesome video mate. I am going to make one of these. Looks fun.
This channel is awesome!!!! Thanks for the video. I’m super excited to go and try it.
Great video! Waiting for the next one!
Outstanding, thank you for this lesson.
Awesome video brother! Glad I found this channel
Thanks appreciate it!
Yeah keep up the videos man I missed ya
So basically it's an airfoil? Neat!
Great video! That’s almost like the original Aboriginal Kylie. I’m trying to look around for branches or fallen trees to make some like that. I’ve done a couple of boomerang style throwing sticks that fly at least 70 or so feet. But if you fine tune a Kylie well, you could get a range of 90 yards or more. 👍
I have all different types of sticks with different range capabilities...I think that is the fun part to see what you can make out of a stick or branch!
A "Kylie "is a returning boomerang, not a throwing stick.
Thanks for making this video really helpful
Thanks for watching.
That's pretty awesome I feel like you explained it well I'm definitely gonna go make one of those. Good job👍👍
Wonderful. You got my respect.
Great videos man!
Cameron Jones 🤓
thank you brother for sharing tips on how to make a boomerang..I'm amazed to see you make the best Boomerang brother🤗👍👌
Great job 👌 many blessings to you and your family and friends Gbu always
Thanks for making this video
Thanks again Donny
Cool video , I have subscribed .
Lovely area you're working in there with the pines and the boulders , would be a nice place to camp out , decent fire and some food and beers.
Addictive show, yes many Australians make trational throw sticks and boomerang's its the roo fat and bee's wax thats the hard to find, plus you rub it with a smooth rock to a refective finish. Like a plane wing, the difference in traditional boomerang and decor one is plywood ones are to sell to holliday makers, Australian hardwood ones have lasted 40000yrs even more. Museums date them bucause of this, definitely paleo area. People evoled out of Africa but tools evoled from out of Australia, Hypothesis/theory.
I love your videos man!
Hi, would it be possible to split the piece in two, providing a ready level side, and the option to make one to give away to a lefty?
Very cool gonna be make no one myself, thanks again brother.
Very good!
Thanks...appreciate it!
I am Indian I am meet you please share your address details
I live in southern Illinois Williamson county in the USA. What kinda rock can use for makin arrowheads and spears? I'm gonna try to make a rabbit stick a little bit later
Thank you!
Awsome video Donny.
Continue to make awesome videos bro.
Natures Edge Bush Craft thanks. Will do!
My Choctaw/Cherokee cousin used to hunt pheasants with what he called the 'crooked stick'....
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I like the name.
Cool af buddy!
If one were to season a throwing stick what would be the best method to do so?
NEVER HAVE USED ONE THESE BUT DINT SEE MUCH COMPLICATE BECAUSE I HAVE MADE MI OWN PERSONAL BOWS AND ARROWS BOWS FROM BAMBO , AMERICAN ASH , JUNIPER , CHERRY , MESQUUTE AND WOOD D' ARCK ( #1 BEST ) ARROWS FROM : BAMBO , REED DOG WOOD , PINE , CEDER , OAK THANKS FOR SHARING YOU AKNOLEGMENT AND BLESSINGS FROM TEXAS .
WHY ARE YOU YELLING CHILL OUT
@@swag2498 NOT EVERYBODY TYPES FOR A LIVING !!!!! hint hint
You guys get many bears in Colorado? We have them all around up here in Montana. Love your channel man!! Keep up the good work. Thanks.
Hope to see much more.
Effective! nice one! time to do some crafts:)
ayy
Just spent 20 minutes watching a forest viking make a stick from a bigger stick and I dont have a single complaint.
Don, can you use this for squirrel hunting?
Great stuff. looks almost like a hunting boomerang. You can see why the white fella's axes and knives were s o desirable for primitive people.
What is the difference in throwing sticks between those that are for longer distances, and those that are for shorter distances? How much difference between larger and smaller prey?
cool video thank u sir very nice
I'm guessing you have to practice alot to get accurate enough to hit anything. Looks like the animal would have a good chance of avoiding being hit by the moving stick. It just looks like it travels kind of slow. But I'm willing to give it a try.
I've made that mistake myself _many_ times in bird photography - the bird is flying _so_ slow. And it isn't. Speed is deceptive.
Is it legal to hunt with one of these? I know in a survival situation it wouldn't matter but practice makes for survival so just curious.
Question: what is the benefit of a rabbit stick as opposed to throwing a rock?
Great question. Honestly...both will work. A rabbit stick or throw stick covers greater surface area upon impact. With proper airfoil design a rabbit stick can be thrown of excess of 150 yards. Stocks go farther, straighter and are more accurate. Sticks can also be used against large game targeting the legs causing a break and immobility of the prey.
Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks Survival Wow, thanks for the quick reply! That makes sense, I’d then imagine you’d typically want to use the densest wood at your disposal so you’re getting the best of both worlds... I just found your channel and am binging your videos :-) fits with my interest in experimental archaeology quite well! Loving what I’ve watched so far, thank you!
Micah Spruth-Janssen no worries. I will be uploading some more videos soon with a focus on Mesolithic technologies that are long forgotten and never employed.
Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks Survival fantastic! You’ve got yourself a new subscriber for sure! I really appreciate your focus on ancient techniques, our ancestors were just as smart as us and it’s fascinating to see how they problem solved just as we do today. I’d love to keep hearing the “whys” of the past. We have lots of evidence for the what in the form of artifacts, but your experience actually using them is invaluable to understanding why things were the way they where!
Nice build :-)
How do you kill something with that
How would you season this so it won't crack?
Season the wood prior to carving. for the best results you would cut the stave to 6" longer on each end and then seal the ends with glue(or pitch), and let it dry slowly through its bark for 6months or more. That would produce a very hard and stable piece to work from.
Michael Getman thank you, I've never done woodwork before.
You should learn how to make an Aboriginal boomerang same concept as this but thrown properly they come back amazing bit of engineering from my ancestor's from over 60thousand years ago
I saw u on alone season 6, u ok after that parasite
Dysentery will kill you. Almost got me...but I’m good. Thanks for watching.
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I've watched Australians hand make them , and they would split it in half and make 2 out of one because you would want a flat side
The big long range ones were made to hunt kangaroos. These are flying baseball bats and they're awesome
I believe they’re called boomerangs 🪃
Same theory as an airplane wing cool
Great video, but the thumbnail doesn’t match the finished product so kinda sketchy
If you put lettuce and carrots out on sheet of fly paper... Nevermind.
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You are basically trying to achieve an airfoil shape on your stick.
Anyone can make these but I have yet to see someone use it 🤣
My boomerang won't come back.
I just stumbled across your channel. It's great! I SUBSCRIBED!!
If you have a chance, take a peek at mine. All outdoors stuff, trapping, hunting, prospecting....I think you would like it. Thanks!
He's looks like Rick Grimes
I know its cheating a lil but ive found a couple of say 4" squares of various gauge or grit sandpaper takes up very lil pack room nor weight
Run out of hunting light making the stick or be to tired to throw it.
Sharpest fuckin axe
Rabbit stick 🤣
TIK TOK
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Show us yourself hunting and killing a rabbit with that...
HA HA HA !