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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Hackaday’s new handmade category we have the option of covering a wide range of builds – everything from jet engines designed on paper and built on manual machines, to old-world crafts made with ...

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 ...

To make a bow drill, you tie a cord to both ends of a stick so that it looks like you're planning to shoot very small arrows. Then you twist the cord around a shorter, thicker branch, called a spindle ...

LeFLORE COUNTY, Okla. -- Years of training and persistence paid off for an Oklahoma hunter after he harvested a 300-pound black bear using a primitive bow, string, arrow and stone point earlier this ...

In a day and age when hunters use mobile apps to check property lines, crossbows shoot over 400 feet per second and deer hunters can now have trail camera pictures sent directly to their cell phones, ...