Learn how to make a bow and arrow by hand in this step-by-step tutorial. Clay Hayes shows you how to make a bow you can take bowhunting.

Rising to the challenge, he started fashioning bows from Osage orange and Pacific yew. Wouldn’t you know, with those bows and handmade arrows, his team reached the finals.

Find out how to survive anything right here. Primitive bows and arrows were made using raw materials such as the wood from various trees including ash, hickory, cedar, oak, walnut, and birches.

From felled tree to finished product, Fry spends up to 60 hours crafting one “self” bow from a single piece of wood — and that doesn’t count the time necessary to age, say, a Pacific Yew log to ...