Over the past few months, videos from the YouTube account Primitive Technology have amassed more than 30 million views. And with good reason, the videos tap into the caveman/woman inside of us all and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regardless of bow type, bows are hewn close to final shape specifications with careful hacks with a shaving-sharp hatchet. When the bow starts to emerge, he carefully whittles it to shape with ...

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 ...

What most people see when looking at a tree sapling is only a sapling, however when Lyle Shaulis looks at one, he sees a bow in the rough. Recently, Shaulis found a hickory sapling he thought would ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The bow and arrow is one of humanity’s most primitive weapon systems, right up there with stick attached to rock. Stuart Brown of YouTube’s Ahoy ...

Emergencies can arise at any point while off on a wilderness excursion. Electronics can die, lighters may not ignite, and ...