 Welcome to the second phase of making this primitive hunting bow. So where we left off the bow was starting to bend but it's still really stiff. It's heavy and I'm not even, I'm not able to see that even tiller yet. I've got a tillering tree, makeshift tillering tree that I set up here on the back deck that we're going to use and I'm going to start taking some more material off the sides as well. The goal today is to actually get this bow shooting. So I'm going to start taking wood off the sides here. I'm just eyeballing this. I've got my lines here towards the end that I'm going to stay kind of consistent with but everything else I'm just going to sort of eyeball and go by feel. So as I'm shaping up this bow there's actually a slight S in it and that is going to make the string favor one side. It's not an even S. I'm not going to try to fix that. Like try to carve away from that and make it straighter. That way I don't have to put a arrow rest onto this this bow. I could just shoot it off the knuckle. Just full primitive style. Take some of those sick arrow heads that you guys sent me with the arrows that I've already made. Turn this thing into a straight shoot bow. Starting to get that little flex going in there. That's good. This handle section is still really thick. I'm going to start taking off a little beef from the center here. Feeling it to see what's going to feel comfortable in my hand. Now I'm going to shape the tips from the 10 inches that I marked. We'll put in some docks and then get it on the tillering tree. This is just one of those you know it's one thing to go you know get you a compound bow and get good at it. Go out to the woods and get an animal. That is uh that is the highest archery feeling that I've experienced so far. But just the the sweat that is going into making these bows and this being my final one and I feel like the wood is great. I've learned enough now to make it you know pretty decent. If I get a deer guys I might cry. It's going to be one of those things like a deer. I don't even care. I probably start getting teary eyed over a doe at this point. And I can only imagine what it must have felt like doing one of these with stone age tools or not even stone age but primitive tools back in the day you know taking sharp flint and carving these things. I'm using this draw knife makes it so much easier. Just imagine taking some flint scraping this off till it bends and then getting an animal. Taking that back to your buddy's camp and you've been getting all the ladies. The point is I just have a much greater appreciation for people that make bows and they're that are good at it and that hunt with them and actually take take animals with them. It's just it's really a skill. All right we're about five hours into it. It's like five or six from last time so 12 hours. The left side's looking really good. That was I think 45 pounds inches. In this section right here I need to take something out of there. We've got about 10 inches more to go to get it to 28 but I gotta be real careful not to underpower this bow because I don't want to take too much off and then end up with you know 35 40 pounds. I want this thing to be 50 pounds. That way I can take out basically any North American animal. We're close y'all. We are close to having an even tillered bow. Let's pull around 22 inches right now. 45 pounds so once I get it even stretch it out. I think we're gonna be just fine. My hands y'all they're they're just aching sore. You do this bow making stuff your hands just they just get grimy. It's a good thing. It means I've earned my cold beer for today. All right let's put this thing on the tiller tree and honestly I think it's gonna be pretty even besides this knot I got here. I need a little special treatment on it. The thing is just tough but I think we're gonna shoot an arrow soon. I'm actually gonna wait. My audio cut out on this clip for some reason but as you can see I've got the left limb that's flexing really nicely and the right limb still has that little stiff area because of that knot that I've got to work out. But the bow is bending to 45 pounds at 25 inches so we got three inches to go and I think the the weight's gonna be perfect. Should be just around perfect. At the 28 we just got some shaping up to do. The little basket up the name he gave me. Final tuning right here guys. I'm gonna take some sandpaper work around this knot just to get any excess meat off from around it. I don't want to dig into like the real dark part of it. Okay here's the moment of truth. Tilling string is usually about an inch short. This one is about four inches from what I'm just taking sandpaper and a knife. Okay let's check it out. Work to do from tuning standpoint making this thing pretty. Maybe even flipping the tips to add a few more feet per second but I think at this point we're ready to shoot an arrow. Let's see how it does. That string is sitting really hard on the left side where I'm shooting which is it's okay right now but I'm definitely gonna take this twist out of this tip. I'm gonna start fine-tuning this bow. Please Lord do not let this thing break. I'm not doing a full anchor yet. I'm just so paranoid about bows breaking at this point. So this bow is now at the point where I can get an anchor on my face which has been the goal. All my bows have been pretty much either right out in front of my face or just like my hand touching a little part of my face. This is gonna help tremendously. Got some set that has come into the bow that are my string loosened up because it's normally I can put my hand through there. Now I can only get four fingers so I can actually get an anchor point on my face. That is what I'm excited about. I gotta figure out what that is. That's a whole another experiment but it's going to be similar to me shooting my compound where I can just be comfortable getting in one position going to that every time instead of having to just kind of guess. It's like throwing a baseball. So I feel pretty good about it guys. The bow looks good too. You know we got that one big knot on there but just gives it some character. Do a little sanding, put a leather handle on here. This thing's ready to take to the woods. I am happy the way this bow turned out guys. It's actually 48 pounds at 28 so it's just under what I wanted but that's fine. I'll take it. It's for my only my fifth or sixth bow. I'd say I've done a pretty good job and man I'm excited to take this to the woods. We're actually going to head to the Deerley soon. First time this year and start getting things ready. I'm going to take this bow with me. We're going to do some pig stocking and maybe even some sitting. This is the last bow that I'm working on that I'm making for the season and I'm happy with it guys. So thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel. Mondays are usually adventure style videos. Throw a vlog in there during the middle of the week and then also Tuesdays are technicals where I'm going into some sort of gear thing. So subscribe to the channel, smash that like button and may god bless you and all your outdoor adventures. Godspeed and I'll see you on the next one.