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Very nice build. Im a fellow bowyer since a child, im 43 now. I like your natural aim too. Just draw, look at your target and release. No pulling the arrow to the chin bull

You gringos have it all wrong. ... kind of like crop rotations, Mayans abandoned cities before they did too much damage to the environment. They would leave everything and find a new place to build a new city. Building a new city took a lot of work, but that was also a reason to leave the old city and create a new one, everyone would be busy, everyone one had employment.

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Thoroughly enjoyed this. Many thanks.

I was friends with the late Joe Dabill from early 90s up till his passing. I went on group knapp-ins where he instructed. Also paid for private one on one tutorials. I was fortunate to have Joe take me to his secret materials collection spots for chert and jasper and plant materials. He lived in South Monterey Co. and Northern San Luis Obispo Co. in San Miguel, Paso Robles and Atascadero.

thanks so much for sharing this great video on bow making with us!!!!!!!!

Shame how the Gangnam style video has more views than this

Very good. I liked it.

What'd you wrap in the leather? Howed you get it rigid?

Just recently came across your videos this is the second one I've watched I was wondering do you make these bows and sell them

I have two nice 52" osage stave. One will become a Cherokee bow and the other a plains style bow. Excellent video...thanks!

Enjoyed , like your china berry bow. All best

There is a Sioux bow found in South Dakota that looks the exact same as this design. It's a plains shortbow more than a Comanche bow. I made one (my best bow yet) and it Shoots great hardly any set. Less than 1/2 inch and i made it from a Maple board.

Great tutorial!

I thought grain run out in the non working portion of the limb was okay....?

It's not an 'atlatl', it's a 'woomera'.

Nice video sir

Much respect to Chief Geronimo, the Apache people, and all American Indians. Early colonials would have done much better to treat the original inhabitants of this country with the gratitude and respect they deserved. Our country today would probably be much better off as well. Mitakuye Oyasin... we are all related, and we should live like it. Thank you for this wonderful video... That's a gorgeous bow you've made... I love short bows, and will likely be shopping in your online store in the near future. Philamayaye, ~RavenCro

LOL. I used andesite (igneous) for prop rocks which promptly exploded and destroyed 15 some pieces

how does this bow compare to the English longbow?? (which I've often wondered if the longbow is over rated)

ummmmm - Fort 'Sill' vs. 'Still?

I'm from the World Atlatl Association. We have atlatl competitions world wide. I build darts and atlatls and mostly compete in Ohio Pa and Indiana. NY and Mo. are the other two states with a lot of competition events. Many events are Fri Sat Sun but with a few 1 day events. We throw at a ISAC target from 15 meters and 20 meters. We only compete for our highest score of the year and help each other to attain our goal. Last year I was ranked 20th in the world and hope to make the top ten soon. A lot of us build our darts out of river cane, species of bamboo that grows throughout the US I get mine from along the Ohio river. The further south the more wild cane breaks that have yet to be destroyed. Most of our darts measure seven foot eight inches for men. For some women and children the darts can be smaller. Anything under 6 feet will shoot straight up into the air. I use a single finger hole basketmaker atlatl as do a lot of my colleagues. Most atlatls measure from 24" to 26". There are many different styles, with different banner weights and dart fletching. Most use a standard 3 feather fletching. 8inch turkey feathers. Everybody customizes their personal equipment or has someone build it for them. Except you don't need anything fancy to get started. It's just a throwing stick and a dart. If anyone is interested in this great sport go to World Atlatl Association and you can view our calendar of events across the world and the US. You can also view the semi annual scores and scores of previous years. There is also plenty of atlatl info on the site. WAA was startted in 1987 and we have thousands of members today. We teach how to throw and supply the equipment at all of our 3day events and it is free. Except if we are at a major state festival you must pay to enter the festival. Ohio Paw Paw festival is the largest with about 10,000 people. It's always fun to see new people get involved. I hope we see you out there!

Shortening bows basically make a higher poundage one, doesnt translate straight into arrow speed. Shortening will also make longer draws mostly impossible :/

What do you suggest for the string hitting my wrist

Thank you for taking the time to do this. I am mescalero and lipan, not chiricahua, but this still means alot being Apache. You are part of the reconstruction of our people, and im grateful.

Ball courts mean these are indeed Mesoamericans, the Dine say these Anasazi tribes were cannibals and slavers.

Hi, can you use elm for this kind of bow?

Very interesting! Thank you for your great presentation!

how do you dry the wood out before carving your bow? I've been making bows since i was a kid and i've never dried it properly

His given name was Goyahkla (“The One Who Yawns”). The Mexicans gave him the name Geronimo which has no consensus as to how it was given.

after going through all that effort, why ruin the authenticity of the bow by using acrylic? I would have really liked to see it as they used to look like. No matter how you approximate the color, you won't get the actual look of the true bow without using the same materials. Still, it looks really beautiful.

I have to wonder why they used such a convoluted method... it seems rather instinctual for me to use three finger draw.. or even two finger. When i was a kid and made toy bows out of the ribs of coconut leaves, I used to hold the string by simply pinching it, so I can see how this might have caught on to use in actual bows. but using a strange thumb draw like this is really baffling, especially since they were doing it without a thumb ring. If the bow is light, it won't be too bad. But if its a 50lb bow or higher, no matter how strong you are, that is going to hurt after a while. All that draw weight is going to be on your thumb joint.

That was very interesting. Watching the style of snap shooting, I am amazed the intended target can be hit. I've seen a few other examples of AmerInd style shooting, so I knew they shot mostly from almost the waist and very short arrows. I think the chronograph results were far too inconsistent which further amazes me anything can be hit. Very fascinating.

If you ever need any help on anything like this..... this amazingly cool stuff, I'm local and i would like to volunteer for any kind of project you might have going on. I'm tough and a hard worker and an avid learner

What can i do? Where? When? I want to learn. I want to help. I live in prescott and I'm obsessed

I got a question, so ive seen some people from other countries actually eat the cactus itself, they turn it into a stew. The ones they cooked were probably around 7-8in. In width and they tossed it into a wok. I have a couple of them that are about 11in. And i want to cook one of them and try it, have you ever heard of this? If so advise or recipes would be greatly appreciated

It would be useful to know how long they dried out prior to firing. Nice video.

Very interesting! Thank you!

Like the video, never new the name of the trap, but but I have used it since I was a kid, but I always put a very fine bait stick like like a toothpick in the upright or under it to stop the animals from walking out from under the the stone, and it works great, you should give it a try.

I really enjoy this channel ☺️

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Thank you for this film! Wen I was a young boy, I tried to build a Bow that way, but it broke. Now I know why. May be, I'll give a new try to it! 😊

Did you find evidence of permits to bring those birds out of southern Mexico?

Would you ever consider making another to sell? I love the short bows, and unfortunately they are not commonly for sale at most commercial retailers. Very nice bow!