I’ll tell you a story- I lived in Sr Alaska for 3 years, there I met Marvin, native story teller....88 years young. I asked him if when he was a boy, was there cancer, heart disease, stroke, mental illness, diabetes, arthritis. He replied, no, none of them. The old men of 80 and even into their nineties, still hunted. Climbing the steep coastal mountains to hunt the deer on top. Then dragging 1-4 deer down the mountain-to the beach, and rowing the food 5 miles back to the village. There was no grocery store! The men were gone 80 percent of the time fishing, hunting, or trapping. No modern processed foods, every family has a garden and fruit trees. Firewood was gathered and towed back with a rowboat. They lived on their traditional foods, and had a active lifestyle. Today the village is filled with people with all the modern degenerative diseases. And too old, is a state of mind. Mental attitude is the most important aspect of life! There are dreamers and doers in life. If you’re not doing, all one does is dream. It’s all a choice- living an existence, or designing a life. And we choose every day of our life. Be the best you you can be! Burn all the past baggage, and life is bliss! Have a great day!

Had the bow set up at a pro shop. It performed just fine kzfaq.infoUgkxQEKUoxLWwayEDZR0NKB-5limn4MBU-2L . And I would say this is a good starting now that I could pass down to my son when he is older.But the package was missing the release and a nock was missing from one arrow.Dealing with customer support was terrible. They suggested I buy a new release rather than correct their own quality control issue because it’s to expensive for the. to ship it out from China.Update: manufacturer got back to me and resolved the issue. I retract the above statement.

others make it look hard... so we dont try..... now ill try it for sure , thanks so much !!

Built in one hour... Plus a good portion of a lifetime to master axe skill presented here :)

The knife is an old kitchen knife, bought for 25 cents at a garage sale. High carbon steel, all rusty! I shortened the blade from ten inches to five, ground the blade slowly dipping it in water to keep from overheating it. Sheath is homemade. It’s all part of being creative😉

Wow! I’ve always been too intimidated to make my own bow but have always been fascinated by them. Now that you’ve shown how easy it can be I’ll be trying my own this weekend! Cheers 🥃

Well, I just test fired my 1 hr bow and it worked pretty well. The only thing is it took me 5 hrs, but still pretty quick. Thanks for the tuition.

Ha ha, yep teaching and talking keeps me form working as efficienctly as if completely focused. But if I don’t talk, people who aren’t familiar with sharp as a razor tools, will be injured. And at least the first 8 tries the potential bow is ruined. My goal is to give suggestions so people can have successes first try!

Very cool! That looks simpler than I would have imagined!

I have been around axe's, saws and the bush for a long time but learnt lots from this video. Enjoyed your finesse with your hatchet and trick for quickly drying wood to increase snap.

Great video. I have only recently started to see the value of using a shorter small game bow as a survival tool and your video demonstrated how to make one that even I can follow. Thanks for the effort.

Love the simplicity of this project! Nice work man.

Love your work! Great little bow and brought back some happy memories of experimenting and making countless different bows as a child. Back then, despite getting lucky with a few designs, I didn't know about the basic technology involved in the shape of the stave and never thought of running green wood through a fire. Now, many years later and still playing in the woods with basic and simple bushcraft, I understand a lot more! (And the best and most important part; we are never too old to play in the woods.)

Nice little now. Looks like the bows used by the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert! Perfect for small game. Good video too.

You use whatever is available, , as long as it is elastic springy, has snap when released, and frays when broken, you can make a bow with it. A native person once commented, bow can be any piece of bent wood.... Arrows are heap big work!

I'm so impressed I subscribed to your channel.

Thank you! Especially the draw length warning! Very efficient video.

Paul, It’s ok to have a slight deflection, but if it’s bent the way the bow will bend when pulled, it will lose snap and cast. Strong non stretching cord works fine, I show how to make a bowstring from hickory inner bark, and from B 50 cord for making bowstrings in different videos.

Really cool video. I used to make bows when i was a kid in a woodlot near home. I used a hatchet to cut the tree and would just use my pocket knife to strip the bark and sand it down. Then i used twine for string , regular bow string or whatever i could find. After a while i used pheasant feathers on the arrows with glue and string then I would sharpen the arrow on the tip or use store bought arrows.I shot boxes too.Most broke before too long as the wood was very soft. My best bow was made out of a wet tomato stake with regular bow string . I attached a block to it for a handle and cut an arrow rest for it .That thing had some pop to it. Lots of memories.

Great little bow. Thanks for the tips

Wow I am glad I found your channel, I really enjoyed this video!

Excellent video! Thank you so much!

Kool Bow Dude.... You're a very good teacher. Your mello and slow enough to fallow directions. Good Job! God Bless 🏹

Awesome young fella, will try this summer with grandkids. 🇨🇦 72 yr old expat hunter/ outdoorsman

Exquisitely good demonstration. Thank you.

Thank you Walter.... this was a great video.

Thanks for the video! Tomorrow I'll be heading up to the forest near my house and make myself a nice bow! I loved how proud of your work you looked right at the end of the video. Wholesome!

Great video Walter! Sure wish I could make a few bows and arrows, and bark strings, under your direct guidance. In person I mean.

Got to love a Bow making session by Alen Grant in Vans...Absolute legend!!

Great little bow. You made it look fairly easy with masterful axemanship and experience. Very motivated. Wonderful video.

Those native short bow was fast!!! Thanx sir for the video.👌😁

Thank You. That was most inspirational. Excellently. Done!

Good show ! Well done....

Thank you! Well explained!

Good survival bow, I liked the drying over fire.

So glad I found your channel, lots of good info

Nice! Thanks for the video.

enjoyed this, hope you keep making vids

Brilliant video. Going to try this once all the snow has gone

Subbed Walter. Appreciate your step-by-step as well as your continuous reassurance of the overall process. Very effective teaching for my personality type. Thanks for the content brother.

That looks really fun!!

Thank you. Simple but Very good details. Dig the hat

Enjoyed watching this ! Thanks ! ;)

Thank you Sir this was a very well made video and I thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Nicely done

This was a lot of fun to watch this video, and it also demonstrated many useful tips. I could see that you have strong arms from watching you do your hatchet work.

Thank you sir ,,, it was fun 2 watch u making that bow . love from norway .

Nice video man. Thanks!

That's one of the most valuable bow making videos now online.

Really enjoy your videos thank you for the knowledge

Your axe skill has taught me ALLOT thank you so much you have a new subscriber!!

Hey a Washingtonian! Awesome project

Beautiful work

Very nice. I can see a Native American building something similar, in a very similar way. The say the horse bows that the western tribes used were also very short and handy for horseback hunting and warring.

Awesome job very easy

I cant belive how good it is for its size! I never thought bow that small could be a good bow!

Thank you. I have much to learn.

excelent job exsplaining. enjoyed tha thankyou

Surprised how fast it shoots. I love building self bows

lovely video,keep inspiring people like this,wish you all the best!

That’s so rad!

Nice work!

Axe work will be forthcoming in a few months, knife sharpening is already available on another video I already did- There are 29 other videos to learn from if you choose to

i live in east Texas , near Nacogdoches. it looks like you're in my back yard .

That was very interesting. Many thanks.

Thanks, this was what I was looking for.

Damn son! That is zippy! Need to make one of these this spring.

Would LOVE to see you do a video on ax and knife sharpening!

I love it good job great fast bo build I love the primitive way, Good job sir.

Top little bow..Top little video..

Yes, a sharp hatchet!!! Look at the hatchet I’m using, the sharpened edge goes back a half inch. Many hatchets need the edge reshaped by grinding, my knives I do the same thing, so there is no secondary bevel at the edge, it goes straight back from the edge. If you cannot slice paper with the tool, it’s too dull to use for woodworking, Use the same technique in the knife sharpening video, only set the axe head down, and move the stone on the edge. Make-a sheath for the axe, because it’s now a slicer!

Good vid. 👍

Cool video

Very good video thank you

This is going to be the first bow I ever make. And will try to hunt some small game with it.

Молодец, хороший мастер, сразу видно, что это не первый лук, который он изготовил. Даже захотелось повторить. Привет с остова Сахалин!

Thanks mate!

This was very helpful

Mate here I am thinking I need clamps, tuners, glues, ark of the covenant to make a little bow. Your styles way more aligned with nature anyway, Fantastico monsieur

Love your explanations, don't drag on short sweet and cover just what you need to. Great idea we can all take a day and try something like this and see if its our next hobby well don my man.

Excelente trabalho...

Классный лук! Удачи деда!

Impressive 😮

Jeremy Roy, instead of surmising that the natives had disease and didn’t know what it was, first get the book nutrition and physical degeneration from interlibrary loan and read it cover to cover- Dr price went around the world in the early 19th century studying the “primitive diet” , before modern foods were introduced. Almost no dental caries even though they didn’t brush their teeth! Virtually no degenerative diseases. One generation after modern foods were introduced, all the modern ailments began showing up. And Marvin was in a government school- so educated, our government doing its best to eradicate native culture. If he spoke his language in school, he was made to go and stand out in the rain for half an hour. And if you think he wasn’t aware, got news for you... He fought in the Korean War, and he got all the shitty jobs- first man across the minefields, leading the others, because he could see where they were buried. Was Made a scout for the marines because he never got lost, -behind enemy lines for months, relaying info, and no supplies, only what they could get while on the move and being constantly hunted. Being raised native, he was aware of everything, and at 88 he was till active and mind was keen. Being the storyteller he could tell one story after another about his people’s history.. back to the great flood, what they did, places they retreated to on the tops of the mountains as the oceans rose. Where they went. Way back into the ice age....All the way up to the present time.. Just because he doesn’t have a college degree, doesn’t mean ignorance. It’s this society that is ignorant! Raping the land, poisoning the water and air, all for profit. Native person takes care of the land, working to keep a balance in nature so all is healthy. Modern human has little respect for natural world, because they aren’t taught it as a youth. Which path are you on?

Awesome! I tried to do something very similar with kids and machetes but once the green wood is stripped of bark you need to finish up within a day or two otherwise the wood dries out and gets brittle in a dry climate...

Dobar video.

Good safety first demo, sharp tools, excellent fieldcraft, if in the woods, people might want to do 2 or 3 at the same time, as chances are something will go wrong, until you are well practiced at this, a survival situation is not the best time to learn.

Yes, can do a longbow the same, it’s more involved, watch the videos I made on the 4 day process, to have a cured bow ready to shoot

I did this today, it turned out great, I used store bought flax twine instead though. Problem is, it snapped when a friend used it. Ah well, the next one will be better, I did make mine a little longer than yours, maybe 5-6 inches, the snap was on the top/right limb, about two thirds towards the end. I'm thinking, if I can make a few of these, and buy a load or arrow tag arrows, there could be a lot of fun to be had... Especially because PVC pipes are hard to source in the correct density here in the UK, schedule 50 equivalents are hard to come by, that would be my first choice for durability. In case you're interested, I used a silky pruning saw and a cold steel bushman, I feel confident I could do the whole build with my Kukri in future though, less to carry.

An educated man is a dangerous man, if you give him a reason. Thanks for the lesson.

Ótimo vídeo parabéns ganhou um escrito e um amigo aqui do Brasil

I don’t know this gentleman from Adam but after enjoying this video and listening intently the only response that feels appropriate is…’Thanks for teaching me that, uncle walt.’

Excelente arco,parabéns..

An awsome piece of work.. That shortie, will put dinner on the table n keeper preds at a distance... no problemo! I like! A new sub here! Thanks for sharing!

Knowledge beyond bow

Holy smokes! I can't believe the thwack that little bow made against the target. I make longbows and flatbows. Also, that thing has perfect tiller

Walter, I had no idea you had made this video. I love it... thanks for the tutorial.

Quiet emergency small game or short range ambush bow.great job .how about one on quickie throwing sticks .faster to make much easier to become proficient. Thank you Walter your skill shows.

The back of your bow, one has to absolutely follow the grain, any knots will be like small breasts, a slight raised bump.. Absolutely no Annual rings can run off the side of the bow on its back, or it’s a weak spot that will break. All tool marks are removed as well, they are also weak spots. If you desire better results watch the series I did- a seasoned long bow from hickory in 4 days, I explain much more.. keep. Going, you’re the best!

Just wondering, do you *have* to fire fry it or can you just let it cure naturally - if so what is the best position to let it (out in garden in sun/ aring cupboard etc) also for how long. Great video too. :D