How to Make A Survival Bow | 1 Hour Build

Complete set of build notes dansantanabows.com/how-to-make-a-survival-bow-buil… If you're in a real survival situation chances are you should go find a road instead. That said, I hope you all have fun with this build and pass it on to someone else who would enjoy it too.

props to this guy for doing an hour long bow build in 9 minutes

I remember a conversation when I was younger, when everyone tried to tell me you need to have rubber strings for a bow, and no one believed me that the string is actually non-flexible at all and all the power comes from the wood itself

I used to make bows as a kid, I hadn’t made one for 30 years and then my son needed one for a school play, so I went to the local forest and found a yew tree (fairly common around here) and cut a pretty straight branch, stripped the bark, dried it for a few days then notched it, bent it and strung it. He was only 8/9 so I decided to make it around 4ft and reasonably hard for him to pull, it looked great but the surprise was when I used it with a roughly made bamboo cane arrow it flew true and straight for about 50 metres, a full size yew bow is tremendously powerful.

would be fun to see an arrow making video :)

Dude this is quite possibly the best survival bow demonstration out there, it even tells you what knots to tie!

I used to do this as a kid, but never anything of great quality or meant to last. My son & I are just about to go out & get started on the process. Watching your video just helped get my juices flowing. Thanks!

When I was a kid my parents had a flower shop. We used to make bowes using bamboo and simple strings. Our arrows where light wooden sticks that you use to let your flower grow straight. The target was the pallet of bags with earth. Oh the good old times.

This was so great! Following the instructions here, I spent the last 3 days working on a greenbow from a black locust, and I fired an arrow from it for the first time today. Amazing!

This might be the best video on tillering! Lots of thoughts on how to tiller. That may be a great video idea, how to tiller, with fancy equipment or no equipment! I would definitely enjoy a tutorial on how to make an arrow. Nice teaser there, bucko.

Very nice quick bow. I am glad you mentioned para cord is not a good bow string but in a survival situation you got to use what you have. I have to try this sometime!

The paper visuals you made for each step are really great. Would love to see more instructions like this.

Thanks for explaining this in a very simple way! I'm turning into That guy that wants to be prepared for any & every scenario... the world of humans is getting a little carried away after all

I should finish my bachelor thesis but this video seems wayyyy to interesting haha Great video

you have a great talent for systematizing your experience. 😊 thank you so much

Those shots at the end were incredible. Such a marksman.

I didn't expect to learn that much in 9 minutes. Great job.

Another excellent how-to, Dan. Really enjoy your videos.

Fantastic video, well presented, relaxing and educational. Subbed!

You're a fabulous presenter! Thanks for giving us hours of instruction in less than 10 minutes. And please do show us how to make good survival arrows. Also, have ya ever made a bundle bow--a quick and powerful bow from willow saplings?