Bushcraft Bow And Arrow 2 Part Play List
Title:
bushcraft skills: how to make a bow (just a very basic one... yet effective!)
Description:
making bows is a fine art, but one can make a crude bow in a very short time and with little effort. i used hazel, which is imo the perfect wood for this kind of bow: soft enough to be easy to carve, strong (especially if fire hardened) and elastic enough to make a decent bow. i intentionally didn't tiller the bow, just to show that even a not-so-perfect bow can be usable... also, i decided to skip the fire hardening, which would have resulted into a stronger bow. the whole thing took about half of hour an very little effort.
Part 2
Title:
bushcraft skills: how to make an arrow (just a very basic one... yet effective!)
Description:
many say that an arrow is much hard to make than a bow... and they might be right! arrow making requires time, patience, skill, resources and tools. that is, if you have all of the above and you want a really good arrow.
but, if you need an arrow "right now", maybe you can settle for a less-than-perfect-arrow, that still works within certain limits.
in this vid, i try to prove that a very basic arrow (that is easy to make in a short time with just a knife) can be accurate at a decent range and can deliver a lot of impact/penetration, more than enough to take small game (if you can get close enough). bow hunting is prohibited in Romania, so i never shot an arrow to a living target, but i got in numerous occasions close enough to small game to be able to use even such a crude arrow with a fair chance to a clean kill.
even if i prefer a good arrow, it's nice to know that i can make and use a more basic one, too.
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