jrf brought this up in my firearms thread so I thought I'd start this thread giving him credit.
In my firearms thread I mentioned having a backup firearm for hunting as I hunt with both BOW AND Firearms-rifle and handgun. So it is conceivable for me to have a longbow or recurve along.
I feel these bows in practiced hands can be VERY useful in a survival situation. I shoot a bow better than a slingshot for one thing. But the bow doesn't fit in your pocket. Arrows can be made in the woods from natural materials-another benefit. Small game to the largest game in the world can be taken with an appropriate bow/arrow/head combination.
You can use a bow and arrow to take the smallest game with any head: broadhead, blunt, Judo, even a field/target point if necessary. Larger game should ONLY be taken with BROADHEADS and SHARP ones at that.
Fish can even be caught/shot with heavy arrows and a barbed point connected to a line.
Birds can be taken both on the ground and in the air, if you practice enough. Flu-flu's help in this job.
Another benefit to archery is that if you have the time. A "green" bow can be built with only your KNIFE! This takes us to PRIMITIVE archery.
So I feel ARCHERY can be a useful skill and the skills of stalking that you build with it will work with any weapon.
Comments/questions.
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Plainsman
primitiveguy@hotmail.com
In my firearms thread I mentioned having a backup firearm for hunting as I hunt with both BOW AND Firearms-rifle and handgun. So it is conceivable for me to have a longbow or recurve along.
I feel these bows in practiced hands can be VERY useful in a survival situation. I shoot a bow better than a slingshot for one thing. But the bow doesn't fit in your pocket. Arrows can be made in the woods from natural materials-another benefit. Small game to the largest game in the world can be taken with an appropriate bow/arrow/head combination.
You can use a bow and arrow to take the smallest game with any head: broadhead, blunt, Judo, even a field/target point if necessary. Larger game should ONLY be taken with BROADHEADS and SHARP ones at that.
Fish can even be caught/shot with heavy arrows and a barbed point connected to a line.
Birds can be taken both on the ground and in the air, if you practice enough. Flu-flu's help in this job.
Another benefit to archery is that if you have the time. A "green" bow can be built with only your KNIFE! This takes us to PRIMITIVE archery.
So I feel ARCHERY can be a useful skill and the skills of stalking that you build with it will work with any weapon.
Comments/questions.
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Plainsman
primitiveguy@hotmail.com
