Many facets of hunting have changed over the last few decades, but none as dramatically as the tools of take. When adorned with a state-of-the-art distance-ranging scope, a fast shooting center-fire ...

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 ...

In this video, I demonstrate how to make a bow and arrow using primitive tools and materials. The bow is crafted from bamboo, and the bowstring is made from twisted fibers of bark. The arrow's tip is ...

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 ...

This is the first primitive bow I ever made and it is far less than the quality that would be expected from an effective hunting bow. The arrows are practice arrows not designed to do anything more ...