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Shot placement is ALWAYS key!!!! I’ve been a tree stand hunter my whole life. Even with a rifle I’ve never tracked a deer more than 1/4 mile. If you can’t make the shot drop them… don’t take it unless your desperate for foods… now that I’ve devolved going from rifle to crossbow. Down to compound. I’ve picked up recurve about 2 years ago. I will NOT take a shot over 30 yards with a bow. It’s my effective accurate range and from the clearance of my stand it’s much easier to get a vitals shot. Practice and consistency. Along with comfort will help you fill that freezer!!! Good luck everyone and have a blessed harvest!!!

@nathantattu1797

Ай бұрын

thank you, good harvest too!

...everytime I view a Ryan Gill video, I hear the sound of REASON!!! Thanks, man!!!

Great series starting! In fact, it was the best invested $30 of my life. Honestly, I'm learning English with your book! Thank you for this fabulous work. From alpine mountains of France..

Hi Ryan, I appreciate your approach to primitive hunting. It is both intelligent and entertaining!

your the person wo got me interested in primitive archery, thank you.

It is possible for deer to survive a one lung hit. Very rare to happen but it can. If the lungs don’t collapse it’s possible for them to heal and fully recover. Hard to fathom that but many documented on trail cameras after hits. Lots of good information given here to help people get ahead of the learning curve and not have to learn some of this by trial and error. Really cool story about the game warden finding your point. Hope he was not downing primitive hunting because of that. Same thing could have happened to a guy with a compound and expandable steel broadhead.

@huntprimitive9918

Ай бұрын

It's possible but definitely very rare. I have never lost one from a lung hit thankfully. The game warden thought it was super cool. I still talk with him on occasion today. He's a super nice guy. Most of them have actually been very nice to me about what I am hunting with... but I think locally word has gotten around so most of them already have heard of the local guy that hunts with sticks and rocks.

I dont know if you travel Ryan, we have our annual artifact show on August 24th. Oru Maybee center campus. Would be a blast to have you as a guest.

If your raised up doing hunting anything shot placement is critical especially considering the various game out there. But just the basics behind the frount shoulder for the whitetail deer sometimes that works for a hog sometimes that works for a bear the heart could be higher or lower the same with the lungs but usually that's how it goes. With the whitetail deer you want to try to get that double lung shot. Have you ever done a primitive blowgun build?

I dont know if you ever watched videos of the Hadzabe tribe of hunter and gathers. They are one of the last tribes today that still lives primitive. I love watching them build their bows and arrows but i never see them unstring their bows. Do you think they always leave their bows strung?

"X's in it's eyes..."BWAHAHAHA!

I don't want to disagree with you, Ryan, but I have seen some videos from the 70's of aboriginals in Australia and South America just spraying and praying spears and arrows at game. They make good shots, but also long 70+ yard shots/throws, neck shots, back shots, finishing stuff of with clubs, pin cushioning, etc. Some rather famous cave paintings show lots of archers pin cushioning deer. I think the crucial difference is they were willing to make what we consider to be unethical shots, and they almost always hunted in groups via drives. Maybe that is not representative, idk.

@huntprimitive9918

Ай бұрын

I do certainly agree with what you are saying. The point I was making was more based on the effectiveness of the gear rather than the hunting method. We've done quite a bit of hitting, chasing, and pincushioning. You certainly have a much higher chance of losing the animal, but if a bad hit is made, that is sometimes what we do if we don't think leaving it lay is the answer. Typically those that used to say "they had to run them down and pincushion them" are suggesting that stone points CAN'T kill efficiently with even good hits. Typically you won't see documentaries of the good one shot one kill hits because it either happened so fast that the camera wasn't there or because it doesn't make for very good TV.

@stephenballard3759

Ай бұрын

You arent wrong, but I've seen some of those, too, and I think that spears act way different from modern arrows, as do the 5 foot long Amazonian arrows and the 4000 grain New Guinean arrows. There is one from Africa where a guy just ham-hits a lechwe ram with a spear, The animal runs, the spear shakes its way out, and blood just sprays out of the huge, gaping muscle wound. The wound was 10-12" deep and 6-8" long. You dont have to hit any major arteries for that to bleed out ingna minute.

A lot of people need to realize that a whitetail deer is not that hard to take down. Your arrow needs enough power to get through the ribs and move like 6 inches past that to have a 100% success rate.

@woody442

Ай бұрын

Fragile but agile, but if you can’t even hit, you can’t kill.

Many are under the assumption that getting an arrow into the animal anywhere will lead to a successful hunt? This is insane, has anyone met anyone who thinks this way? I thought it would have always been common sense to go for the lungs, ribs, heart or liver?

@stephenballard3759

Ай бұрын

Nobody admits to it, but I've seen people behave this way. Actions better reflect what you really believe than words do.