Big Game with primitive equip

[NTProf]

You see a lot of people hunting deer with primitive equipment, but is there anyone who hunts other big game with primitive bows - Elk, Moose, Bear, Caribou, dare I say Bison?

[Buckeye Guy]

Yes ,yes, yes, and yes ,and dare I say yes !!!
I know personally of some of the finest hunters in this country doing these things for many years.
Many of the fine men I know don't do computers so you just don't get to see their work !!

[Keenan]

Yes ,yes, yes, and yes ,and dare I say yes !!!
I know personally of some of the finest hunters in this country doing these things for many years.
Many of the fine men I know don't do computers so you just don't get to see their work !!

I'll add a few more yeses to that.  Look at all the bison and elk that our ansesters used to take on a daily bases.

[Badger]

   A friend of mine took a bison cow with a 50# osage self bow I built him. Kind of a canned hunt but it was interesting to hear how it went. Cow was 600# shot at about 10 yards penetrated both lungs using a modern broadhead. Says she went about 50 yards and her lungs filled up with blood. Steve

[NTProf]

Thanks, guys. I am not doubting it can be done. I just wondered who has done it since you don't see any pictures posted.

[bcbull]

yes it can be done iv killed deer elk moose caribou antalope blk bear and a grizzly and a 2300# bull buffaloand several african game spices  all with a long bow  the key is shot placement and the proper arrow broad head   brock

[NTD]

Someone posted a good story not that long ago of an elk Kill. 

[NTProf]

bcbull

what bow did you use to kill all those? Wow.

[bcbull]

ntd  i shoot a 63  lb yew long bow   brock

[n2huntn]

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,15456.0.html

[NTProf]

n2hutn, thanks for this link!

[JW_Halverson]

I hear that question a lot when I show up in 1770's clothing and a flintlock rifle at deer camp.  My usual answer is "Nope, not possible at all.  That's why all our ancestors are dead...starved to death waiting for the laser guided, heat seeking, wireless internet GPS adapted ultra-mag rifles to be invented."

 

If you can hunt it with modern gear you can hunt it with the primitive gear if you adapt, work a little harder/smarter, and know the limitations of the equipment.  You won't see many of the successful primitive equipment hunts in the average Hook-n-Bullet crowd magazines because they are not sponsored by big name manufacturers.  Likewise you won't see it on the Horn Porn channels on cable either....again, those shows are nothing but an extended marketing tool (read: infommercial) for the advertisers.  But if you subscribe to specialty magazines like Primitive Archer for bows, Muzzleloader/On The Trail/MuzzleBlasts for the blackpowder scene you will from time to time see some great articles on us nutjobs that insist on doing it the hard way! 

[NTProf]

JW, well-said!

[crooketarrow]

     Indains did'nt eat just plants for 10,000 years.

[bucksbuoy]

Wild life experts dont recommend hunting anything larger then deer with bow and arrow, and judging by all the skeletons I find in the woods of nice bucks with full racks, I might be inclined to agree with them. Personally, its my dream to go to africa and take BIG game with a bow. I think as long as you are shooting a good stout bow, 60+ pound draw, and a 400+ grain arrow, and, and, and, you are a good shot and a responsible hunter, its definitely do-able to take even the largest animals on land.