I have been hunting ptimitive since 1955 when I got my first 30lb. Longbow. I was 6 years old. I harvested about 20 cottontails that season. I even got 2 Ruffed Grouse. These days I use a 50lb Bamboo Horse Bow and long (36) Bamboo Arrows (my draw length is 32") with 2 blade homemade single bevel broadheads.
I am currently using a replica of an Assyrian bow made by a guy in Hungary. Same draw using self made spruce shafts with the single bevel. I find the single bevel to be really effective on "primitive" bows. Completely confident that set could take anything in N America.
Another awesome video Ryan! I really enjoyed the premise of this one. Go out and enjoy bow hunting and kill and eat what's legal. I love that there's no ego or any of that nonsense in these videos. It's just about enjoying bow hunting and fully utilizing what you kill. Great content!
One great thing about where I live now here in OK opposed to MN, I too have many opertunities. Love hunting squirrels and rabbits while moving through for deer and pigs. When I'm back north, hunting for pheasants and grouse is a great enjoyment as well. Look forward to using my own arrows this year.
I think that by the time people invented the atl atl, they were doing good. but by the time they invented the bow and arrow, they were invincible, I think the bow and arrow really was a significant nail in the coffin for starvation. no offense to atlatl but bow and arrow is much more standardised system in comparison. (in my humble opinion :D ) thank you for another great video, Ryan!
@@ncoutdooradventures6148 Describe ironwood to me. When I was a kid, my Father and I were out hunting and came across a tree with shoots growing out around the roots. They were close to 3' tall and straight as they could be. He said they (I assumed he and his friends) used those to make arrows back in the day. That was in Harnett County about a million years ago. Lol. Thanks.
Jon Patterson well let's see if I can shake the cobwebs around my head,,, ironwood is a very slow growth tree. The bark wasn't real thick but ran in lines up the tree. It's an extremely hard wood, and would require a very good saw to cut it. The ones I cut for walking sticks was about 2" in diameter at the base, and 1 1/2" in diameter 7' away with no branches in that space. As I remember the leaves was smallish, serrated edged, and ovoid shaped coming to a sharp point. The biggest problem I would see with ironwood for a bow is that as it drys it has the tendency to split open,, but my walking sticks (that I've had for probably 20+ years now) are still very strong with cracks along one side. So I'm thinking it still might be able to eliminate the cracks in the scraping process,, I don't know,, I haven't tried making a bow yet myself. Dragonwood is very similar to ironwood, but as it dries it doesn't crack like ironwood. It's also a very slow growth tree that's very strong. You would have to find a stand of the dragonwood to find those long enough with no branches, but it's very possible. Just be sure you get the dragonwood from the correct area,, dragonwood is harvested, and sold, to stick yards. Those stick yards have plots of ground for lease to the cutters,, and trust me, you don't want to make a cutter mad at you for for taking his money off land he has paid a lease on. It is possible, however, to purchase those same "sticks" of dragonwood from a stick yard for not a whole lot of money. I'm not familiar with Harnett County, but I know of a stick yard at Ft. McCoy in the ONF.
Are you getting hit with the strikes and full channel demonitisation that a lot of the other hunting channels are I hope not cos your my favourite I don't have the ability to get out and hunt at the moment so I'm living vicariously through you and this channel lol
It's about that time of year where I obsess about hunting in a primitive way but never do it because 12ga go boom........ One of these days I'll get around to do it.
That's a good feeling finding your arrow. I lost one this week while training my brother to shoot. It flew high and went through somewhere under the thick grasses...
Maybe this is a crazy idea but I wonder about a spike throwing device for small game. What I envision is a tube with a closed end (bamboo or even PVC pipe) with a heavy spike or spikes which you throw from the pipe like pitching a baseball. Kind of a variation of the rabbit stick. 😇
Congrats on the kills! You sure do make it look easy (even though I know it isn't) especially trying to film at the same time. How do you keep the chiggers from eating you alive?
I have enjoyed your videos very much. I have bow hunted for over 40 years but mostly just for deer, and a little small game. I use modern recurves and the longbow a little bit, but always wanted to make a selfbow and hunt with it. I might give it a try, now. I know you are hunting Florida. Are you hunting public ground or private ground on these videos?
Hunting without being decked out in head to toe camouflage?! Madness!! 🤣🤣🤣 In all seriousness though, phenomenal job! Just goes to show, you really don't need all the fancy stuff the industry pushes to be successful!
Great video! I remember the first rabbit I took with my bow. I shot that little sucker 4 times and he kept running. I finally had to get really accurate and instead of his vitals, I put one through his back leg and pinned him down. When we dressed it out 3 of the first four had all hit vitals. I now use blunts almost exclusively for birds and small game.
I try to eat a diet that’s more natural. On my walks, if I see an animal and can mime drawing a bow and making a hit, or drawing a bead, I’ll get a meat meal after my walk. If I don’t see an animal, or it runs before I can imitate a shot, I eat vegan. It keeps me healthier and more cunning on the trails.
I have been hunting ptimitive since 1955 when I got my first 30lb. Longbow. I was 6 years old. I harvested about 20 cottontails that season. I even got 2 Ruffed Grouse. These days I use a 50lb
Bamboo Horse Bow and long (36) Bamboo Arrows (my draw length is 32") with 2 blade homemade single bevel broadheads.
I am currently using a replica of an Assyrian bow made by a guy in Hungary. Same draw using self made spruce shafts with the single bevel. I find the single bevel to be really effective on "primitive" bows. Completely confident that set could take anything in N America.
You sir are my primitive hunting idol some day I wish to have half the knowledge you do you sir are a real hunter
That Osage bow is right at home in the swamp.
it sure is. I really really like osage
I swear my husband and I have to be genetic throwback! We absolutely love and respect your channel 100%
Good shootin, i believe the thud of the arrow hittin is one of the most pleasant noises
That might be an evolutionally trait
@@user-vp1yr2cv9g yes and amen to the noise.
Red trails are happy memories. Great job . I miss home .
Another awesome video Ryan! I really enjoyed the premise of this one. Go out and enjoy bow hunting and kill and eat what's legal. I love that there's no ego or any of that nonsense in these videos. It's just about enjoying bow hunting and fully utilizing what you kill. Great content!
Thanks for the video. Keep them coming.
thanks very much for following along!
Many arrows flew on this one. It's good to see one earing from mother nature grocery store! Excellent video as always!
To educate, entertain and inspire! Great job Gill, thanks for all you do and keep it up!
Just a suggestion but primitive Burmese python hunt? Your in FL and that would be pretty badass
...and Iguanas...
Could make a blowgun for such a hunt
Inspirational as always. You and Clay Hayes need to get together and do a hunt!
Hard to tell how much I like your channel! Greetings from Hungary
12.38 your reaction says it all - I don’t think anyone has ever got that excited picking up some bacon from the meat aisle!!
A bad day hunting is still better than a good day at work. But a good day hunting makes you never want to go back to work.
One great thing about where I live now here in OK opposed to MN, I too have many opertunities. Love hunting squirrels and rabbits while moving through for deer and pigs. When I'm back north, hunting for pheasants and grouse is a great enjoyment as well. Look forward to using my own arrows this year.
best of luck on your hunts
Atal
Excellent video! Always love when you drop a hunting video
Very awesome! I live in Lakeland and have just started hunting the past couple years. No success yet but learning is all part.
awesome, keep it up!
Love it. Thanks Ryan
Awesomeness!!! Thanks for making this
Great video Ryan. Really good to see a realistic primitive style hunt. I'm so glad you make the videos you do. Keep it up man 🤙🏼
Great video!
Great job mister, could not have done better myself. That's hunting.
Another good video!
I sure wish I had met you when I still lived in Ocala area!
Great video as always
thank you very much
I think that by the time people invented the atl atl, they were doing good.
but by the time they invented the bow and arrow, they were invincible, I think the bow and arrow really was a significant nail in the coffin for starvation.
no offense to atlatl but bow and arrow is much more standardised system in comparison. (in my humble opinion :D )
thank you for another great video, Ryan!
@Crusa Der yeah, but as one politician here used to say: you're mixing frogs and grandmothers.
(it rhymes better in it's original language :P)
Watching that made MY heart race too! A bit of THAT type of excitement has gotta do a body good, I think.
You make some very beautiful equipment
thank you very much!
Awesome I love these videos
thanks very much for following along!
Man, that was good stuff!!!
Thanks I enjoy ur stuff very much my uncle taught me to Knapp when I was young I haven't got back into it I believe I'm going to
Fan club from Thailand
I reckon that pig hunting beats everything else. Great hunt! 👍👌😁
great shooting, good job!
Hey Gill love your stuff. I live in the ocala Forest. Just started making cane arrows. What are our local bow wood options?
thanks very much. Hickory and elm are out best local options
HuntPrimitive what about ironwood? Or dragonwood? There are plenty of those in ONF.
@@ncoutdooradventures6148 Describe ironwood to me. When I was a kid, my Father and I were out hunting and came across a tree with shoots growing out around the roots. They were close to 3' tall and straight as they could be. He said they (I assumed he and his friends) used those to make arrows back in the day. That was in Harnett County about a million years ago. Lol. Thanks.
Jon Patterson well let's see if I can shake the cobwebs around my head,,, ironwood is a very slow growth tree. The bark wasn't real thick but ran in lines up the tree. It's an extremely hard wood, and would require a very good saw to cut it. The ones I cut for walking sticks was about 2" in diameter at the base, and 1 1/2" in diameter 7' away with no branches in that space. As I remember the leaves was smallish, serrated edged, and ovoid shaped coming to a sharp point.
The biggest problem I would see with ironwood for a bow is that as it drys it has the tendency to split open,, but my walking sticks (that I've had for probably 20+ years now) are still very strong with cracks along one side. So I'm thinking it still might be able to eliminate the cracks in the scraping process,, I don't know,, I haven't tried making a bow yet myself.
Dragonwood is very similar to ironwood, but as it dries it doesn't crack like ironwood. It's also a very slow growth tree that's very strong. You would have to find a stand of the dragonwood to find those long enough with no branches, but it's very possible. Just be sure you get the dragonwood from the correct area,, dragonwood is harvested, and sold, to stick yards. Those stick yards have plots of ground for lease to the cutters,, and trust me, you don't want to make a cutter mad at you for for taking his money off land he has paid a lease on. It is possible, however, to purchase those same "sticks" of dragonwood from a stick yard for not a whole lot of money.
I'm not familiar with Harnett County, but I know of a stick yard at Ft. McCoy in the ONF.
@NC outdoors adventures. Thanks for the info. Will check out the stick yard at Ft. Macoy.
Perfect shoot brother
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Are you getting hit with the strikes and full channel demonitisation that a lot of the other hunting channels are I hope not cos your my favourite I don't have the ability to get out and hunt at the moment so I'm living vicariously through you and this channel lol
Love to watch your hunting video
Great video great hunting
Esos tipo de arcos me gustan bien ahi felicitaciones
It's about that time of year where I obsess about hunting in a primitive way but never do it because 12ga go boom........ One of these days I'll get around to do it.
That's a good feeling finding your arrow. I lost one this week while training my brother to shoot. It flew high and went through somewhere under the thick grasses...
question can you use wood for indirect percussion?
Just made my first primitive bow this week its crude but it shoots
The old timers say that a "Bow that makes meat" is the only mandatory. All the rest comes with time and practice.
very skilled 👍🏻
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Maybe this is a crazy idea but I wonder about a spike throwing device for small game. What I envision is a tube with a closed end (bamboo or even PVC pipe) with a heavy spike or spikes which you throw from the pipe like pitching a baseball. Kind of a variation of the rabbit stick. 😇
Congrats on the kills! You sure do make it look easy (even though I know it isn't) especially trying to film at the same time. How do you keep the chiggers from eating you alive?
I have enjoyed your videos very much. I have bow hunted for over 40 years but mostly just for deer, and a little small game. I use modern recurves and the longbow a little bit, but always wanted to make a selfbow and hunt with it. I might give it a try, now. I know you are hunting Florida. Are you hunting public ground or private ground on these videos?
Hunting without being decked out in head to toe camouflage?!
Madness!! 🤣🤣🤣
In all seriousness though, phenomenal job! Just goes to show, you really don't need all the fancy stuff the industry pushes to be successful!
Nice
Ur a legend
Your point tip didn’t break ! Wow .
Do you use any primitive techniques to block your scent? I imagine it’s probably not possible when your out there a while
Shower with lye soap and wash clothes with just vinegar and scentless laundry detergent.
Great video!
I remember the first rabbit I took with my bow. I shot that little sucker 4 times and he kept running. I finally had to get really accurate and instead of his vitals, I put one through his back leg and pinned him down. When we dressed it out 3 of the first four had all hit vitals. I now use blunts almost exclusively for birds and small game.
what is there to say?............................NICE!!!
Muito bom queria conhecer você pessoalmente para trocar ideias
Te adimiro muito vc é 10
What are you wearing for foot wear? You are very quiet walking and stalking to get up to those 15 yard shots.
He wears mocs or Sandals mostly
Can I use Walnut to build a bow? Keep the videos coming.
Try
Yes, I made a walnut bow and backed it with homemade rawhide from a deer I killed, the bow came out lighter than I wanted but she shoots great!
😊😊
I'm always looking for animals to eat.
95 degrees in Western SD. My game just spoiled
Need a club to finish them off.
Id love to see you do a blowgun hunt
Here for the vegan comments
I try to eat a diet that’s more natural. On my walks, if I see an animal and can mime drawing a bow and making a hit, or drawing a bead, I’ll get a meat meal after my walk. If I don’t see an animal, or it runs before I can imitate a shot, I eat vegan. It keeps me healthier and more cunning on the trails.
Really? Where do you take walks? Nation forest, nature reserve? I should try this.
@@Adam-ec5qj I walk through a regional park a few times per week. We get lots of squirrels, rabbits, coyotes, and mountain lion. Geese don’t count 😂
So you wore the same clothes for a week?....
I have multiples of the same stuff. it's pretty much my work uniform
@@huntprimitive9918 same.