Watch Ray Mears Craft A Stone Age Hunting Arrow From Scratch

[@HistoryHit]

Ever had a go at making your own bow and arrow? Ray makes it look easy! 🤔

[@sikanderali3305]

You are doing great job guys Came here from your Facebook page 👍🏻

[@SonofsamSJF]

Yes I have. It was a complete failure!

[@sikanderali3305]

My Father made a bow and gave me But at that time I didn't know how to make a arrow nor he gave me

[@kaybee4850]

I have been wanting to make a bow of a while now so I found this very interesting. Excellent work everyone.

[@NotMyRealName13]

Me and my Dad made a bow and some arrows when i was a kid. I only shot at the shed door though.

[@jamesmcallister3878]

Please please get this man back making documentaries, I grew up watching him long before that days of Bear Grills, his calm, clear and relaxed manner taught me so much.

[@TheSussexpillbox]

Always trust a tubby survivalist! Not a TA soldier who spent a 1/3rd of that service in hospital. I am amazed Bear learned so much during 3 years in the TA, with only weekends and a two week camp a year. He makes Lofty Wiseman look like a cub scout, eh? maybe not.

[@NoName-lo9ym]

Ray is a true legend, I grew up watching Tracks and loved every Ray Mears segment

[@tonymaurice4157]

It's desperately what we need in this time of soy boys and cry babies!

[@leogoughmtbs]

Bear Grills is no match for his wisdom and expertise.

[@MrHestichs]

Would love to see more material from Ray Mears. He has such an iconic presense in his documentaries.

[@kitty_boy_7kb72]

Will never get tired of watching Ray Meares. Takes me back to my childhood every time

[@mowvu]

Ray's enthusiasm is infectious. what a top man.

[@Yourmomma568]

Ray is amazing. Lucky getting him. I've seen him do the process of arrow making before. using heat in a moist arrow shaft and trying to bend all the little curves out. Spent what seemed like an entire day on just 3 shafts. and a lot of fine detail work. The guy taught me how to split a log in half with a wedge, and how to keep it running straight. building a lean to so that the water flows down and away on pine foliage. Such a wealth of knowledge. A real world treasure that man is.

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

Yup his videos are good

[@Yourmomma568]

@@geoffsaunderson5766 I wish there was more of his stuff online. he has done some great docs for bbc but it's getting harder and harder to find them. His series he did on anthropology was really neat, especially the segments he did with the professor whose expertise was ancient food sources.

[@97itachiuchiha]

@@Yourmomma568 Do you happen to know the name of the series you're referencing?

[@alanrooney2920]

@@97itachiuchiha it was wild food, I think, and the professor guy was called Gordon

[@dayleclarke4433]

'Our ancestors had plenty of time.' Thank you, not the constant death and misery that is always portrayed by media.

[@pauldavies9360]

Paleolithic ancestors sometimes lived well into their 70s. The old saying 'they only lived to 30 or 25' is based on infant mortality and lets face it of you got sick or badly wounded you died back then.

[@yourmom1481]

They also didn't have the knowledge we have today, they were probably trying out new plants to see if they are edible and that probably killed quite a few of them

[@tonymaurice4157]

They had more skills than all the soy boys of today!

[@julienbrellier]

Great to see the bushcraft GOAT in action. Grew up watching Ray Mears Bushcraft and although there is a large thriving community on KZbin for bushcraft the vast majority don’t get close to this guy. Delighted to see him back, hopefully some more content to come from him.

[@zackscotty]

Absolute legend. part of my childhood is Ray.

[@Procrasti...]

Watching Ray's quietly assured manner, the vastness of his competence, but also his humility and his excitement in the face of all that he has yet to learn about bushcraft, makes me want to be a better chap. What a great role model, particularly for our youngsters. I wish he were on TV more.

[@robertgreenaway5166]

Ray mears is a legend

[@PatrickCavanaugh0420]

I'd actually love a collaboration with Ray Mears and Les Stroud. Ray sparked my love of honing my survival skills. I'd love to spend a weekend camping together he's got so much to teach.

[@Asheanae]

Looking good, Ray! Please make more content, you're the best bushcraft expert in the West!

[@NoName-lo9ym]

Get Ray Mears to do more videos! I grew up watching Ray Mears - the man is a legend!! If I was in a survival situation i would take one Ray Mears over a million Bear Grylls!

[@paul_k_7351]

Great to see you here, Ray! Thanks for the vid!

[@MrSCOTTtheSCOT]

If you were lost on a desert island what one thing would you take with you ? Ray Mears

[@matthewhale2464]

Definitely Ray and not bear Grylls

[@Dogtagnan]

I visited a Stone Age flint mine in Poland (Krzemonki?). The arduous lengths they went to to tunnel into chalk for the flint nodules showed it had to be worth their while. On the surface had been specific areas where they had manufactured tools; for example arrowheads in one area, axe heads in another. Across Europe they've found artefacts from this one mine, indicating that there was a thriving business across thousands of square miles. So much for the school textbooks telling us our ancestors were ignorant.

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

Same here on the Kent coast. Big beautiful nodules of black flint! And after hours of practice, I’ve got through six rolls of Band-Aid but I’ve managed to make a paper knife!

[@Thetarget1]

There was a big flint industry in Europe in the stone age. Archaeologists have found exported Danish flint all the way in Iberia.

[@MontyCantsin5]

What textbooks have you read that claim our stone age ancestors were ignorant? I’ve never seen this idea being put forward.

[@freeholdtacticalmed]

Looking at the crap they’re brainwashing our kids with, I’d rather see a classroom with a Ray Mears video on than bovine excrement like Fantasy race theory.

[@brev5057]

the true value and heart of this man and his lifelong pursuits, friendships cannot be overstated. THANK YOU for your service to everyone the world over. may we take head in the stark, beautiful experiences, skills, lessons you have shared with us all. thank you Ray

[@jorvikoutdoors]

@raymears is an absolute legend and tv is in a better place when Ray is on there...

[@alisigdeniz9286]

Grew up watching Ray. Glad to see him doing his thing.

[@TH-ds2yx]

Never come across your channel before but saw Ray Mears in your thumbnail and now you've got a subscriber. What a legendary man. I have 2 of his books and they are a literal wealth of knowledge and interesting anecdotes.

[@danosmond278]

Hi there, which books of his would you recommend?

[@TH-ds2yx]

@@danosmond278 I own Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft which really is the Bible of outdoor living, and Ray Mears Wild Food which is all about foraging and is very interesting

[@danosmond278]

@@TH-ds2yx Thank you I will have to check them out.

[@EggsForDessert]

Wow Ray looks so healthy. Glad he’s doing well.

[@davidsmith8997]

I love seeing the past come to life. Very helpful in understanding the lives of our ancestors.

[@simonh2011]

The sad thing is that people now want over the top extravagant material like Bear Grylls than actual information that could help you in a survival situation. Nothing against Bear, he's a good entertaining watch but I'd always go to Ray if I needed real information on how to survive

[@julienbrellier]

I was always saddened by the whole, “who’s better, Ray or Bear” debate because they were two completely different things. Bears shows always tended to be aimed more at entertaining and Ray towards the more informative side but both were great. Lost count of how many times it’s been talked about round a campfire haha.

[@simonh2011]

@@julienbrellier Exactly if you look at one as informative and one as entertainment then it's win win!

[@plummet3860]

Bear is bs scripted crap i grew up watching ray

[@simonh2011]

@@plummet3860 depends what you want to watch. I enjoy watching his shows but not to take information, more just to see what crazy thing he will do as I find it entertaining. I watch Ray to learn survival skills from the best

[@andysmith5464]

In the first ever scene I watched of Bear Grylls was him crawling through a wet muddy ditch (likely a road ditch across from his Premier Inn) I turned it off straight away. Ray would teach you not to get your clothes and kit wet by any means if possible.

[@SandrasSpicySpanishSalami]

Ray Mears deserves a Knighthood.

[@doghousecharlie5919]

Much respect. Ray Mears is a treasure. The Michael Jordan of survival

[@BosworthMcG]

Michael Jordan is the Pavarotti of basketball.

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

@@BosworthMcG Ha ha! 😁

[@scottwhitley3392]

“Our ancestors had plenty of time” I love that. It’s true. In the modern world time is our enemy and it constrains us. Back then it was their friend.

[@pauldavies9360]

I bet they slept more too, rising with the sun and weren't knocking back the coffee and junk food.

[@scottwhitley3392]

@@pauldavies9360 Exaclty. Schedules didn’t exist. Everything was done on a need to basis. Life flowed with the natural of the earth

[@Insecthouse]

Yeah ,Iove this stuff. I like to imagine the Neolithic hunter gatherers passing this life supporting knowledge on through generations. Each one adding a little improvement through experience. And also the field craft and stalking skills they must have acquired to get close to prey. I remember Ray talking about Australian aborigines deliberately conserving their energy and being efficient in their movements and productivity. I really think people haven’t changed much in potential for thousands of years. The levels of intelligence those hunters had was high I’m sure.

[@pdeklerk2330]

Grew up with Ray, the man is a Legend.

[@harryrissik3310]

Such a pleasure to watch and learn from Ray Mears as usual. I grew up watching his documentaries and it has been an important factor in driving my passion for primitive skills and nature.

[@tonymaurice4157]

Best video you guys ever played! Made a few Elm and Ash bows myself, they are definitely deadly as well as primitive arrows!

[@HistorySkills]

This is awesome. Would love to see more experimental archaeology like this.

[@HistoryHit]

Hoping to do more of this on the channel!

[@snotgobblerific]

Hunt Primitive collab would be amazing

[@Steve-oj7ev]

Very satisfying that I was recommended this. Great to see and I hope we see more like this. Many thanks ...!

[@HistoryHit]

Thanks so much. Do consider having a watch of Ray's 'Ancient Britain' series on History Hit TV!

[@kelvinsparks4651]

Great to see ray back on screen again.

[@VoxFelis]

More Ray, please!

[@WesterlyWilderness]

Seen ray in person at a show around 4 years ago and he said he has a new series on the way in the future ! Hopefully we see it soon it’s been a long wait

[@Zegswijze]

For everything that has changed since the stone age, it is nice to see that some things haven't changed at all. Fixing points on wooden arrows is still done by melting glue over an open flame to this present day.

[@j.l.emerson592]

I once knew someone who knapped arrowheads from thick glass, flint, chert, obsidian, etc. His favorite glass was the thick bottom of a glass Round Up one gallon jug. He was quite talented.

[@cumorahwatson1967]

My mom, and my brother loved this guy, they say he's the best! She says it's a shame, he isn't on the main stream channels, any more people would learn alot from him she says. l know my brother, would totally agree.👍👍

[@georgemorley1029]

Ray Mears: Here’s how you can find water in a survival situation, using knowledge that people have been using for thousands of years. Bear Grylls: Let’s jump out of helicopters with celebrities and drink our own piss!

[@stevejenkins9984]

I'd love to see more of this! This is what I do I make bows and primitive arrows and equipment. Absolutely cool to see someone else do it!

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

Good old Ray, he foresaw the rise of Omicron and prepared early, like the best survivalists

[@bettyswollocks5278]

3 cheers for Ray Mears 👏

[@pegjames188]

As kids we used old playing cards as flights and a piece of copper tube on the pointy end, worked very well.

[@jacoblee5546]

A dumb question but how exactly do you get around the teething troubles of arrow shafts without seasoning them?

[@redbeardie]

Great to see Ray!

[@alastairbell7084]

Time and time again Ray remembers us how strong & resilient we humans were and now it reflects how weak we have become that when the time the next ice age or change in our planets climate most humans will not survive as we have lost our skills to survive which has made is weak and vulnerable

[@yorkshirepud0]

Ray makes bear grills looks like a kid camping in his back garden

[@mikrikbell]

Wahey it's Ray! Looking healthy... Loved his stuff since I was a youngling...

[@klaasklapsigaar1081]

Mr Mears, please show us next how to make a Tomahawk Missile from birchbark.

[@williamfordham8081]

Ray is a guy of guys. Few like him. Fewer still of his knowledge.

[@DingbatToast]

Great video right up to the end where we didn't see the arrow in flight

[@iantincangleed4702]

Great skill Ray, thanks

[@bws833]

Brilliant. I was thinking when he was cutting the slot for the arrowhead, when was the Band-Aid invented? 🤣

[@jay0kew]

Put me on a deserted island and after 3 months you probably find me dead from starvation... Put Ray Mears on the same deserted island and after 3 months you will find a thriving economy !

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

Only if you like eating scorpions and snakes. This guy never found a bug he didn't love to eat. At least BearGrylls had the guts to say "This tastes horrible!":)

[@Chris66able]

@@bobmetcalfe9640 Bear Grylls is crap compared to this guy, and as Ray said himself Bear is a Clown .

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

@@Chris66able I don't have the slightest interest in comparing the two as survivalists, just it would be nice if just once - and I've never seen Ray do this having watched all his early stuff at least - he said something like "this tastes awful but you have to eat it to survive". Never saw the man eat anything that wasn't "yummy". I've eaten one or two of the things I saw him eat, including if my memory serves fried scorpions, and they are not "yummy". Crunchy yes, relatively inoffensive yes, but not exactly tasty. Besides, even though I am not a fan of Grylls, I don't think he's a clown. And I think that Mears is probably wrong to say so. I've seen the man put things in his mouth that I wouldn't get within yards. It might be relatively stupid, and he might have to turn off his tastebuds, but what the hell?

[@jamesalanstephensmith7930]

Haven’t seen you in a while. Nice short informative video!

[@stoynospasov939]

Which brand is his shirt? It is amazing…

[@nofearjustlove1508]

Would be nice to see the full process. Is the glue from the time period and if so how is it made? May aswell used gaffa tape.

[@robcraven2626]

No fear. It's tree resin.

[@MontyCantsin5]

Watch the other video showing Ray Mears making arrows from the same period. To fix the arrowheads in place, pine resin mixed with charcoal would’ve been used. For the fletching, glue derived from crushed bulbs (in addition to plant fibres and animal sinews) would have done the job.

[@Hut-in-the-woods]

Where are you in this video thats looks amazing

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

Ha! Phil Harding would have had that arrowhead finished in half the time. :)

[@pirateboyfearless]

People always go on about bear grylls, but i know who id rather walk me out of any foreign environment.... no drinking your own piss no madness just ray whittling a car out of a birch tree.

[@reloda]

Good to see Ray

[@funda298]

Oh I miss Ray!

[@nebusnevermore]

Love you Ray!

[@Mcdfr123]

Didn't early man tie the arrow head on with "string" to hold it in place?

[@trogdo]

love you ray

[@donwright3427]

Hi Ray. Your the best

[@alistairmonaghan6515]

Well done Ray - you shot some leaves

[@sparey4431]

Where’d he get the glue from? He didn’t explain that part

[@richrobson220]

From tree resin

[@jillatherton4660]

Ishi favoured hazel arrows.

[@forswornclaw732]

Dan Snow, Ray Mears?? Have i died and gone to heaven, think i'll need to sub

[@ChaosInCali]

I didn’t know Benny Hill was a bushcraft expert

[@RodCornholio]

Think about this: you wouldn't be here if someone didn't do this in the past...probably a LOT of your ancestors did this. Yep, feeding, fleeing, fighting, and fornicating.

[@harleyboy3914]

When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night he checks under his bed for Ray Mears. .

[@JustinDOehlke]

Stone age resin

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

Ok then..YOUR TURN BEAR!??

[@lewistaylor1965]

'the arrowhead is attached using resin glue...which is thermo plastic'...???

[@StonesSticksBones]

Pine resin glue, & thermoplastic means a property, meaning it softens when heated, not literally plastic

[@MrSpaceMees]

some archeologist is going to find his stuff and think he struck gold

[@TheMDJ2000]

Yes but how is the glue made?

[@Barouche]

Probably used resin which seeps naturally from pine tree trunks.

[@TheMDJ2000]

@@Barouche yes that makes sense thanks!

[@derrickdoiron4421]

It's in the video. Resin

[@TheMDJ2000]

@@derrickdoiron4421 Is it? I wasn’t paying enough attention! Thanks 😊

[@Trebor74]

Tree resin and probably how it used to be made by boiling bones,etc

[@ven5008]

Excellent

[@trapper1211]

well damn he turned into a granpda

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

Then, on completion of said bow, you should ideally be able to shoot the bugger. Me? Despite being marksman with pistol and rifle, after 200 quid‘s worth of archery equipment (top of the range 45lb recurve and a dozen top-flight arrows) I can’t hit a barn door! 🤬 I should have started when I was eight years old and not 68 years old!

[@pauldavies9360]

Haha! As long as you enjoy it it really doesnt matter how good or bad you are!

[@admiralpercy]

Why would you want the arrow to stay stuck into your prey? In first responder training they always tell you not to remove any object impaling a person if possible because its holding the blood in. An arrow that gets stuck in an animal would kill more slowly

[@therealisation5500]

Just a guess but I'd say the barred ones would be for Humans to cause the max amount of damage if removed but just guess

[@vintagethrifter2114]

Animal that is trying to run away from the embedded arrow, will cause itself a lot more damaging as the arrow moves around. It will cause a lot more bleeding.

[@arthurmcbride1235]

You're right - they are not really barbs, we just think of them like that because it seems like the fish hooks we use today - they are not barbs but a wider blade, to make a bigger cut as it goes in. Arrows most often go right through an animal. Ray - like most people in the UK - has not experience of bowhunting, as it's illegal in that country.

[@vintagethrifter2114]

Modern broadsides fired from a modern bow will usually go through a body. Primitive arrowheads fired from a primitive bow usually won't. In that case, you'd want the arrowhead to move around to cause more damage. I think that his video is based off of the later bow and arrowhead since he is making an arrowhead from stone.

[@drxym]

I wonder if they put colour onto their arrows so they could find the damned things after loosing them off into the woods. Ochre, chalk or something of that nature.

[@arthurmcbride1235]

THose arrows heads do not have barbs, they just have a wider blade to make a bigger cut as it goes in, it is not designed to "stick in" the animal. Arrows most often go right through an animal. Ray - like most people in the UK - has no experience of bowhunting, as it's illegal in that country.

[@VooDooMaGicMan81]

It's not a powerful enough bow to create the required force which would allow an arrow to go 'in & out' of a large animal.

[@carlbrown2123]

Using a bow in this country is not illegal. It would stick in the animal. Its not a rifle.

[@arthurmcbride1235]

@@carlbrown2123 Bow hunting is illegal in the UK. On red deer arrows often pass straight through, unless bone is hit.

[@arthurmcbride1235]

@@VooDooMaGicMan81 You dont need much. Deer are only made of meat. Unless the arrow hits bone.

[@carlbrown2123]

Just seen that it is illegal. That's fair enough then... Need to stop using my primitive now then.

[@Dregkar]

Whoa, a Ray Mears video where you don't see a bit of chicken skin??

[@douglaskane7749]

Ray..the man bear wants to be

[@liamhargreaves7135]

Never get tired of ray takes me back to being a boy

[@c0mputer]

Good video but NO NEED to add the typical anticipatory music. It’s so cliche. This is not a Bear Grills show. It really puts me off.

[@DirtyBertie]

So glad to see you in trousers Ray seen far too much of “you” in those shorts over the years. All the best xx

[@MikeMcRoberts]

r/restofthefuckingowl

[@silencedarms]

stone age? really indiana where making these joints less than 150 years ago and still are till this day i would say traditional arrow not try to put an age on it😂 and k don’t think bows existed during stone age o think that was more of a spear time

[@hsfox2792]

Jesus man calm down, cant even read what you said without getting a stroke. Even though the people from the stone age used spears more, doesnt mean they didnt use bows and arrows.

[@breakfast917]

Ray to himself, I can do this so anyone else in history that could do it must have been very speciali lol they had nothing else to do in those days.

[@grogdizzy5814]

Why not show the arrow in flight or hitting a target? What a disappointment

[@johndodd4375]

Not really any good against a 22 bullet gun.. old fashioned methods are a thing of the past but I suppose you have to make money somehow now you are old and passed it. Good luck though

[@tentringer4065]

Not sure you understand the concept of wilderness.

[@04williamsl]

Not enough information here whatsoever. First time I've seen someone put a stone age arrow together, so I have more information than previously. But he talks about "straightening the arrow" but then doesn't explain how. The camera zooms in so you can't then actually see what he's doing. If anyone has a more informative process on it, I'd love to watch a video on it. This is just a half production in my eyes, sorry!

[@pauldavies9360]

I agree. Sometimes I wish Ray went into more detail, I suspect its tv that leaves alot out. I imagine just drying the arrow in the fire and inspecting it every 10 seconds or so and gently bending it to be straight is how its done.

[@MontyCantsin5]

There is another video showing Ray Mears make a very similar arrow in more detail; just search for it.

[@matthewhale2464]

Notice how Ray doesn’t have to actually kill a defenceless animal with his arrow just to score viewers for the sake of entertainment unlike grotty old bear Grylls

[@grahambamford9073]

Ray hunts alright. I remember seeing a TV programme of him shooting deer. It's just not PC to show it on UK TV.

[@TheArkansasBushcrafter]

His flinching right off the bat causes him to lose all credibility with me

[@MontyCantsin5]

What?

[@nigecheshire9854]

Used to like Ray,seems very ignorant about , politics, economics,tribalism was very surprised about that.

[@theoriginaldylangreene]

Do you think that everyone who disagrees with you is ignorant?

[@MontyCantsin5]

@Nige Cheshire: What is this observation based on exactly? A video? Something you’ve read?