How to Make A Survival Bow | 1 Hour Build

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Published 2022-07-03
Step by step guide to making a green wood survival style bow in about an hour.

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All Comments (21)
  • @slinkyman8872
    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
  • @paulm2467
    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.
  • Dude this is quite possibly the best survival bow demonstration out there, it even tells you what knots to tie!
  • @JoshAU44
    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!
  • @GTE_Channel
    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.
  • @EricaSwallow
    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.
  • @jadrael
    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!
  • @kcasto-ze3pm
    The paper visuals you made for each step are really great. Would love to see more instructions like this.
  • @Oliver-2103
    I should finish my bachelor thesis but this video seems wayyyy to interesting haha Great video
  • @BowtellBows
    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!
  • Great video, very well explained and great drawing! The background of this video is fantastic, very relaxing. Thank you.
  • @funkyfox7996
    thank you for providing us with instructions that don't include multi-thousand dollar equipment. i watch these videos for self-sufficiency. not a lot of self-sufficiency involved with buying a frikkin 3d printer (though that would solve so many issues)
  • @coreywright6192
    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
  • @armartin0003
    I started watching this and then remembered that one of my shoulders doesn't work anymore. Then I got depressed.
  • @shadowcastre
    Awesome video..! Arrow making video.. Yes please!