In this video, watch as we create a traditional bow and arrow using bamboo materials. The step-by-step process showcases primitive techniques and tools, emphasizing the skills required to craft these ...

HOOD LEARNED HOW TO MAKE BOWS in his late teens, teaching at a survival school where a co-worker led bow-making clinics. Hood welcomed the chance to learn a new skill, but the work didn’t satisfy him ...

Rising YouTube star Primitive Technology has a knack for recreating Neolithic tech in the modern era. For his latest trick, he built himself a bow and arrow, using not much more than a stone ax, some ...

Halee Asch, of Westminster, notched an arrow on the string of a freshly hewn bow of black locust wood, took a moment to take aim and let fly with an arrow — and, shortly thereafter, with a beginner’s ...

For more than a century, Popular Mechanics has provided life-saving advice for outlasting storms, surviving outdoors, and preparing for disaster. Find out how to survive anything right here. Primitive ...

Learn how to turn a simple wooden stave — which you can cut to size yourself — into a stick bow, complete with homemade bowstring, designed perfectly for your shooting style and preferences. This past ...

WHEN RYAN GILL was 13, his father gave him a stave—or long stick—from a black locust tree, along with a single wood rasp. By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a ...

Workshop Offers Hands-On Personal Instruction Bring your pocket knife and create a primitive bow at Historic Washington State Park on Saturday, March 7. Historic Washington offers the perfect ...