How to Make A Survival Bow | 1 Hour Build

Step by step guide to making a green wood survival style bow in about an hour.

The original music is by my awesome cousin in Uruguay—Marcos Topolanski Quintero. Download his tracks on iTunes, and also check him out on Instagram, Spotify, and here on YouTube.

[DanSantanaBows]

If you're in a real survival situation chances are you should go find a road instead. That said, I hope you all have fun with this build and pass it on to someone else who would enjoy it too.

[slinkyman]

props to this guy for doing an hour long bow build in 9 minutes

[obiwanfisher]

I remember a conversation when I was younger, when everyone tried to tell me you need to have rubber strings for a bow, and no one believed me that the string is actually non-flexible at all and all the power comes from the wood itself

[paulm]

I used to make bows as a kid, I hadn’t made one for 30 years and then my son needed one for a school play, so I went to the local forest and found a yew tree (fairly common around here) and cut a pretty straight branch, stripped the bark, dried it for a few days then notched it, bent it and strung it. He was only 8/9 so I decided to make it around 4ft and reasonably hard for him to pull, it looked great but the surprise was when I used it with a roughly made bamboo cane arrow it flew true and straight for about 50 metres, a full size yew bow is tremendously powerful.

[tilengasparic]

would be fun to see an arrow making video :)

[isaacderfoxtrot]

Dude this is quite possibly the best survival bow demonstration out there, it even tells you what knots to tie!

[JoshAU]

I used to do this as a kid, but never anything of great quality or meant to last. My son & I are just about to go out & get started on the process. Watching your video just helped get my juices flowing. Thanks!

[GTE_Channel]

When I was a kid my parents had a flower shop. We used to make bowes using bamboo and simple strings. Our arrows where light wooden sticks that you use to let your flower grow straight.

The target was the pallet of bags with earth.

Oh the good old times.

[jadrael]

This was so great! Following the instructions here, I spent the last 3 days working on a greenbow from a black locust, and I fired an arrow from it for the first time today. Amazing!

[BowtellBows]

Very nice quick bow. I am glad you mentioned para cord is not a good bow string but in a survival situation you got to use what you have. I have to try this sometime!

[EricaSwallow]

This might be the best video on tillering! Lots of thoughts on how to tiller. That may be a great video idea, how to tiller, with fancy equipment or no equipment!

I would definitely enjoy a tutorial on how to make an arrow. Nice teaser there, bucko.

[Oliver-]

I should finish my bachelor thesis but this video seems wayyyy to interesting haha Great video

[kcasto-zepm]

The paper visuals you made for each step are really great. Would love to see more instructions like this.

[JakeJustIs]

I like this video. From a beginner's point, this is as good as it gets. It hits nearly all functional, necessary points, and it'll be great for people who have to make a quick shift in either sourcing calories, or attack/defense. The biggest problem I've found is that the nock is too small. Look back on the best bowmen of the world; thicker, often reinforced nocks.

Long story short: Don't carve away your draw weight at the tips.

[joedesauteles]

I didn't expect to learn that much in 9 minutes. Great job.

[georgyekimov]

you have a great talent for systematizing your experience. 😊 thank you so much

[funkyfox]

thank you for providing us with instructions that don't include multi-thousand dollar equipment. i watch these videos for self-sufficiency. not a lot of self-sufficiency involved with buying a frikkin 3d printer (though that would solve so many issues)

[herrakaarme]

I'd say it's quite remarkable you made it in an hour. But then again, that's how it goes when you have an expert doing the work.

[aurorachacon]

Great video, very well explained and great drawing! The background of this video is fantastic, very relaxing. Thank you.

[jacktorborg]

I have that same Mora knife, those things are insane for the price! I’ve never owned a mora I didn’t totally love.