Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: kid bow on November 30, 2012, 05:04:46 pm
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i wanna see if you guys can make a fully capable hunting bow from green wood.
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<snip>...and post the pictures of your results on this thread
lets see if you guys can do this
...could you please post your results first so we all have an example of what can be done. That way your 'challenge' makes a little bit of sense.
OneBow
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why no hickory?
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to many things can be done with hickory and ill have pics posted in a few
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Your talking from green wood to dry bow? Bc I can go cut a branch and put a string on it and call it a bow in 10 mins.
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Thinking the same thing Bryce.
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let me rephrase my thing here didn't even mean to make it a challenge. i wanna see the bows you guys can build from green wood. not just stringing a branch.i just wanna see if you guys can make a fully capable hunting weapon. sorry for the confusion i dont know why i even wrote that to begin with
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When I was younger I made a lot of green bows. Yes they will shoot a arrow and yes you can hunt with them BUT I would only do it in a desperate situation. All of them only lasted a few days.
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good practice in case you are in that situation!
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they can last for years if they are made right
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Why wood I wanna do that when I have oodles of real SEASONED bow wood....there's no point in making bows from dripping wet green wood, and even in most survival situations you might have better luck with primitive traps n such
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well, ive seen in the TBB v1 that if you rough them out and tiller, then you dry it out in the sun an wind it will be very reliable.
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hey hawk you have wood on the brain
Why wood I wanna do that
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lol i amd adding a serving to a bow that i made a couple years back and its my faithful hunting companion lol
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hey hawk you have wood on the brain Why wood I wanna do that
Dude I've had wood on my brain 24/7 for years...it never stops from the time I wake up till the time I go to bed,n then I'm haunted by it in my dreams >:D
Way back when I did wack a hick sapling down n tillered it out, then cut a dogwood shoot n made an area all with a hatchet only in a recorded hours time ...ill never do that again..it took almost 5" of set and to say it was a dog wood be a compliment
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i saw Stim Wilcox make a hatchet only bow in 20 minutes at the tenn classic.he then shot three arrows into a target with a real tight group.i don't know if the bow lasted forever,but it was real cool to see it done.
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i hant seen it was it a good bow
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Amen blackhawk, I will never do that again also. Even if I was in a survival situation I would at least toast it on a fire for a while before I strung it up.
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Tim baker went from green wood to bow in 6 days. I know I can't beat that.
And I have been dropped off in the wild for 7 days. Made traps that coyotes kept robbing. Managed to get a working bow from a dead/pre-seasoned piece of oceanspray, i dried oceanspray and osoberry shoots in my camp fire smoke and had a hunting weapon in 2 days. Which got me 1 pheasant 2 grouse and countless rabbits. It was also in August so wild edibles where very abundant. I was never starved.
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i wish i could do that
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lol looks good havnt seen a bow made like that in a while
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Where's the full draw shot bud!?
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lol
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eh i figured as much
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eh i wanted to see wat everyone could make and what you said sounds good about a fast drying bow challenge.
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i think a sapling bow contest would be good as fine hunters can be made from saplings but i just dont see the point of making a bow from green wood when the whole time making it, i'd be thinking, this thing aint gonna last anyways.
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thats kinda wat i meant
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There seems to be dissenion on whether or not a sapling can make a good durable bow. Some believe only split tree stock can make a functional bow. All i make is sapling bows because they are easy to cut, make, and shoot well. I don't believe the natives cut down 10 inch trees with a stone axe and split them with their antler wedges. I've said it before, only a Sith deals in absolutes. There are many ways to make bows ;D