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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though hand-carving one's own weapon or tool isn't common these days, there are individuals who keep the crafts alive and teach others how they would survive had they lived just a few hundred years ...

BLOOMINGTON - One Bloomington firefighter\'s expertise in the world of useful weapons goes beyond water hoses.Scott Mitchell of the No. 4 Station on East Third Street operates a side business, ...

I've been mildly obsessed with YouTube's "Primitive Technology" channel for almost a year now. In it, an unnamed man in Far North Queensland, Australia builds things in the woods. He shows us the ...