You are doing great job guys Came here from your Facebook page 👍🏻

Yes I have. It was a complete failure!

My Father made a bow and gave me But at that time I didn't know how to make a arrow nor he gave me

I have been wanting to make a bow of a while now so I found this very interesting. Excellent work everyone.

Me and my Dad made a bow and some arrows when i was a kid. I only shot at the shed door though.

Always trust a tubby survivalist! Not a TA soldier who spent a 1/3rd of that service in hospital. I am amazed Bear learned so much during 3 years in the TA, with only weekends and a two week camp a year. He makes Lofty Wiseman look like a cub scout, eh? maybe not.

Ray is a true legend, I grew up watching Tracks and loved every Ray Mears segment

It's desperately what we need in this time of soy boys and cry babies!

Bear Grills is no match for his wisdom and expertise.

Paleolithic ancestors sometimes lived well into their 70s. The old saying 'they only lived to 30 or 25' is based on infant mortality and lets face it of you got sick or badly wounded you died back then.

They also didn't have the knowledge we have today, they were probably trying out new plants to see if they are edible and that probably killed quite a few of them

They had more skills than all the soy boys of today!

Yup his videos are good

@@geoffsaunderson5766 I wish there was more of his stuff online. he has done some great docs for bbc but it's getting harder and harder to find them. His series he did on anthropology was really neat, especially the segments he did with the professor whose expertise was ancient food sources.

@@Yourmomma568 Do you happen to know the name of the series you're referencing?

@@97itachiuchiha it was wild food, I think, and the professor guy was called Gordon

Hi there, which books of his would you recommend?

@@danosmond278 I own Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft which really is the Bible of outdoor living, and Ray Mears Wild Food which is all about foraging and is very interesting

@@TH-ds2yx Thank you I will have to check them out.

Definitely Ray and not bear Grylls

Same here on the Kent coast. Big beautiful nodules of black flint! And after hours of practice, I’ve got through six rolls of Band-Aid but I’ve managed to make a paper knife!

There was a big flint industry in Europe in the stone age. Archaeologists have found exported Danish flint all the way in Iberia.

What textbooks have you read that claim our stone age ancestors were ignorant? I’ve never seen this idea being put forward.

Looking at the crap they’re brainwashing our kids with, I’d rather see a classroom with a Ray Mears video on than bovine excrement like Fantasy race theory.

Thanks so much. Do consider having a watch of Ray's 'Ancient Britain' series on History Hit TV!

I was always saddened by the whole, “who’s better, Ray or Bear” debate because they were two completely different things. Bears shows always tended to be aimed more at entertaining and Ray towards the more informative side but both were great. Lost count of how many times it’s been talked about round a campfire haha.

@@julienbrellier Exactly if you look at one as informative and one as entertainment then it's win win!

Bear is bs scripted crap i grew up watching ray

@@plummet3860 depends what you want to watch. I enjoy watching his shows but not to take information, more just to see what crazy thing he will do as I find it entertaining. I watch Ray to learn survival skills from the best

In the first ever scene I watched of Bear Grylls was him crawling through a wet muddy ditch (likely a road ditch across from his Premier Inn) I turned it off straight away. Ray would teach you not to get your clothes and kit wet by any means if possible.

I bet they slept more too, rising with the sun and weren't knocking back the coffee and junk food.

@@pauldavies9360 Exaclty. Schedules didn’t exist. Everything was done on a need to basis. Life flowed with the natural of the earth

Yeah ,Iove this stuff. I like to imagine the Neolithic hunter gatherers passing this life supporting knowledge on through generations. Each one adding a little improvement through experience. And also the field craft and stalking skills they must have acquired to get close to prey. I remember Ray talking about Australian aborigines deliberately conserving their energy and being efficient in their movements and productivity. I really think people haven’t changed much in potential for thousands of years. The levels of intelligence those hunters had was high I’m sure.

Hoping to do more of this on the channel!

Hunt Primitive collab would be amazing

Michael Jordan is the Pavarotti of basketball.

@@BosworthMcG Ha ha! 😁

Only if you like eating scorpions and snakes. This guy never found a bug he didn't love to eat. At least BearGrylls had the guts to say "This tastes horrible!":)

@@bobmetcalfe9640 Bear Grylls is crap compared to this guy, and as Ray said himself Bear is a Clown .

@@Chris66able I don't have the slightest interest in comparing the two as survivalists, just it would be nice if just once - and I've never seen Ray do this having watched all his early stuff at least - he said something like "this tastes awful but you have to eat it to survive". Never saw the man eat anything that wasn't "yummy". I've eaten one or two of the things I saw him eat, including if my memory serves fried scorpions, and they are not "yummy". Crunchy yes, relatively inoffensive yes, but not exactly tasty. Besides, even though I am not a fan of Grylls, I don't think he's a clown. And I think that Mears is probably wrong to say so. I've seen the man put things in his mouth that I wouldn't get within yards. It might be relatively stupid, and he might have to turn off his tastebuds, but what the hell?

No fear. It's tree resin.

Watch the other video showing Ray Mears making arrows from the same period. To fix the arrowheads in place, pine resin mixed with charcoal would’ve been used. For the fletching, glue derived from crushed bulbs (in addition to plant fibres and animal sinews) would have done the job.

From tree resin

Probably used resin which seeps naturally from pine tree trunks.

@@Barouche yes that makes sense thanks!

It's in the video. Resin

@@derrickdoiron4421 Is it? I wasn’t paying enough attention! Thanks 😊

Tree resin and probably how it used to be made by boiling bones,etc

Pine resin glue, & thermoplastic means a property, meaning it softens when heated, not literally plastic

Haha! As long as you enjoy it it really doesnt matter how good or bad you are!

Just a guess but I'd say the barred ones would be for Humans to cause the max amount of damage if removed but just guess

Animal that is trying to run away from the embedded arrow, will cause itself a lot more damaging as the arrow moves around. It will cause a lot more bleeding.

You're right - they are not really barbs, we just think of them like that because it seems like the fish hooks we use today - they are not barbs but a wider blade, to make a bigger cut as it goes in. Arrows most often go right through an animal. Ray - like most people in the UK - has not experience of bowhunting, as it's illegal in that country.

Modern broadsides fired from a modern bow will usually go through a body. Primitive arrowheads fired from a primitive bow usually won't. In that case, you'd want the arrowhead to move around to cause more damage. I think that his video is based off of the later bow and arrowhead since he is making an arrowhead from stone.

It's not a powerful enough bow to create the required force which would allow an arrow to go 'in & out' of a large animal.

Using a bow in this country is not illegal. It would stick in the animal. Its not a rifle.

@@carlbrown2123 Bow hunting is illegal in the UK. On red deer arrows often pass straight through, unless bone is hit.

@@VooDooMaGicMan81 You dont need much. Deer are only made of meat. Unless the arrow hits bone.

Just seen that it is illegal. That's fair enough then... Need to stop using my primitive now then.

Jesus man calm down, cant even read what you said without getting a stroke. Even though the people from the stone age used spears more, doesnt mean they didnt use bows and arrows.

Ray hunts alright. I remember seeing a TV programme of him shooting deer. It's just not PC to show it on UK TV.

I agree. Sometimes I wish Ray went into more detail, I suspect its tv that leaves alot out. I imagine just drying the arrow in the fire and inspecting it every 10 seconds or so and gently bending it to be straight is how its done.

There is another video showing Ray Mears make a very similar arrow in more detail; just search for it.

Not sure you understand the concept of wilderness.

What?

Do you think that everyone who disagrees with you is ignorant?

@Nige Cheshire: What is this observation based on exactly? A video? Something you’ve read?