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Primitive Pathways
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Share the adventures of the forgotten past with Billy Berger. Creative, professional quality videos will both educate and entertain. Also check out my website (primitivepathways.com), link is below, for lots of unique primitive items that make great gifts for yourself or someone else. I'll be uploading new content regularly, as well as producing more primitive DVD's in the near future, so don't go too far. Enjoy my videos, check out the website, and most importantly, get out there and practice those primitive skills so they're preserved and not forgotten. Long live the Stone Age!
Penetration Test: Paiute Bow vs. Deer
primitivepathways.com In this video Billy Berger tests the penetration capabilities of a replica Northern Paiute bow and arrow on a freshly harvested deer. All internal organs were left in place to ensure this test replicates real hunting scenarios that the Northern Paiute would have encountered. The bow was 42-lb sinew backed juniper with lightweight reed arrows tipped with small obsidian points. You'll get to see, firsthand, just what the Northern Paiute bow and arrow is capable of.
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Mouse meets Snake
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primitivepathways.com Mr. Mouse meets Mr. Snake. Will they be friends?
Stone Points in Flight...How do they fly??
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primitivepathways.com In this video Billy and Savannah test the flight characteristics of stone tipped arrows in flight. These stone points are designed to fit modern carbon fiber and aluminum arrows and can be shot from compound bows, crossbows, or traditional bows. Here you'll see just how well stone points actually fly. Check out Savannah's custom jewelry at her website: primitivebynature.net
How to Properly String a Primitive Bow (Step Through Method)
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primitivepathways.com Learn how to properly string a primitive bow to minimize overstraining the bow. The step through method is illustrated in this video, although there are other ways to string a primitive bow. But the step-through method gives the most control.
Making a Sioux War Arrow
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primitivepathways.com Billy Berger teaches you how to make a museum-quality Sioux war arrow from the Great Plains. This video will copy the authentic war arrows used by the Sioux and other Plains Indians of the northern Great Plains and are based on authentic arrows housed in museums across the country.
Brand New Primitive Pathways Website!
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primitivepathways.com After months of work, I'm excited to announce the release of a brand new, updated website! The web address is the same, primitivepathways.com, but it now has an updated server with a modernized look, more streamlined ordering platform, and newer, more vibrant photos. Check it out for brand new products never before released!
Making Stone Hunting Points for Carbon Fiber Arrows (HD)
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These points can be purchased at: primitivepathways.com Learn how to make stone hunting points that will screw into any standard modern carbon fiber or aluminum arrow. These allow modern hunters to experience the excitement of hunting with stone points without having to change their entire set-up. In this video Billy Berger shows you how to make a screw-in insert that a stone point can be mount...
Making the Gunther Barbed Arrowhead
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primitivepathways.com Learn how to make the exquisite Gunther Barbed arrowhead. These delicate arrowheads require advanced skill to make. Billy Berger shows you how to chip them out of thin flakes of flint and agate. Master knapper Steve Allely introduced me to Gunther points and he can make the best Gunther points of anyone I've ever seen. You can buy Steve's points! His online store: flintkna...
Visiting a Prehistoric Quartz Quarry. Flintknapping, Quartz Knapping.
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HTTPS://PRIMITIVEPATHWAYS.COM In this video I visit a prehistoric quartz quarry in central Virginia. Quartz was used for spearpoints, arrow points, and knives wherever it was found for thousands of years. This is one of the rare sources for toolstone that's not been destroyed by development. Thankfully it was preserved and it's still untouched after thousands of years.
Making a Great Basin Butchering Knife from Basalt. Flintknapping
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primitivepathways.com Learn how to make a stone knife like the Northern Paiute and other prehistoric Great Basin peoples made and used. This stone knife is useful for a variety of tasks, including light camp cutting, harvesting vegetable foods, and butchering big game animals. This flintknapping video will show how to deal with problems that stone can present. In this video Billy Berger crafts ...
Perfect Headshot on Squirrel with Primitive Bow (HD)
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primitivepathways.com Primitive Archer Thad Beckum makes a perfect shot on a squirrel with his primitive bow and rivercane arrow. This shows how accurate a primitive bow can be in the hands of a skilled archer. Thad also makes all his own hunting equipment and he's a very skilled craftsman. Watch Thad's youtube channel: ua-cam.com/users/beckumoutdoors. Or visit his website: beckumoutdoors.com
Flintknapping Quartz, Making Quartz Arrowheads
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primitivepathways.com Billy Berger shows how to make arrowheads from quartz. Quartz was used heavily in prehistory for spearpoints, arrowheads and knives, but today most knappers won't even touch it due to much better options being available, like glass, obsidian, and flint. I always enjoy copying the old guys, and if they used it and it was good enough for them, then I feel it's only fair that...
Hunting with Stone Points is Valuable Archaeology
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primitivepathways.com Billy Berger shows how using stone points for hunting helped him discover clues that revealed how prehistoric artifacts were used. When a stone point is thrown or shot at game, sometimes it will break in a very distinctive way. These breaks, called impact fractures, reveal that the point impacted a hard object at high speed, fracturing the tip and removing chips and flakes...
Junkyard Flintknapping: Making Arrowhead from Floor Tile (HD)
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primitivepathways.com In this video Billy Berger shows you how to chip a spearpoint from common ceramic floor tile. Using all bone and antler knapping tools, Billy chips a sleek spearpoint that looks identical to the authentic prehistoric examples you'd find in the forest that were lost hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Long live the Stone Age!
Can a Primitive Bow be Lethal on Headshots? (HD)
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primitivepathways.com Billy Berger tests the penetration capabilities of a primitive bow and stone tipped arrows against different deer heads to see if a primitive bow can generate enough force to drive a stone tipped arrow through a deer's skull and deep enough into the brain to be lethal. Billy Berger uses a 55 lb raw hickory longbow (not fire hardened or heat treated) and a 650 grain riverca...
How to Make Throwing Hatchets...That Work!
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How to Make Throwing Hatchets...That Work!
Collecting Clay for Primitive Pottery
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Collecting Clay for Primitive Pottery
Hornets vs Homemade Flamethrower 3! (HD)
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Hornets vs Homemade Flamethrower 3! (HD)
How to Make Thin Arrowheads, Flintknapping (HD)
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How to Make Thin Arrowheads, Flintknapping (HD)
Making Arrowheads with Lapidary Equipment, Lapidary Knapping (HD)
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Making Arrowheads with Lapidary Equipment, Lapidary Knapping (HD)
Making Arrowheads from Ceramic Insulators (HD)
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Making Arrowheads from Ceramic Insulators (HD)
Making Plains Indian Metal Trade Arrowheads, Iron Trade Points (HD)
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Making Plains Indian Metal Trade Arrowheads, Iron Trade Points (HD)
How Fast Does Copperhead Venom Work?
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How Fast Does Copperhead Venom Work?
Processing a Squirrel with Stone Tools (HD)
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Processing a Squirrel with Stone Tools (HD)
Thank you Billy, great video. What would be the typical dimensions of these Sioux war arrow points?
Thanks Billy for the great informative video !
Great work Billy i always enjoy seeing your research in to our ancient weapon systems .
If you can’t tell, your channel is (Thank The Lord) popping up in algorithms. I’d bet $$$ if that doe was alive that first arrow would have been a full pass through!
That's 17.1 grams, and 20.4 grams.
Very interesting test and comparison! Keep em coming! Excellent video!
Will do! Thanks!
I remember seeing a timber rattler fed a mouse slightly smaller than that. Death was within a couple of seconds-I was shocked. The snake began eating the mouse in 10 to 20 seconds after the bite. I figured the dosage of venom must vary a lot between individual snakes.
Stone point are and will always be sufficient if made properly.
lol the music😂
Forgot to mention…SUBBED! Thank you Sir!
Thanks brother!
I’d imagine the arrows going much deeper/through if it were alive! I can’t help but think with a heart pumping and blood/fluid through all the living tissue would help it to pass through. How long had the buck been dead before you tested?
It had been dead for at least 8 hours before I got it. So it was stiff from rigor mortis. I'd bet that if the deer was alive I might have gotten even better penetration than I did in this test.
Try 30yrds
Don't need to. I can get a lot closer than that....
Cherokees also made river cane arrows, but only used 2 feather fletchings instead of 3. I bought a hickory Cherokee bow at the Cherokee Reservation in Western, NC at the eastern base of the Great Smokey Mountains. My Grandfather was 1/4 Cherokee and born in Hickory, NC. His Mother took him on a train to Oklahoma to meet his Western relatives. He contracted malaria there. His son got malaria while fighting in the Pacific during WW2.
Yeah I've seen some authentic Cherokee bows and arrows in the Smithsonian and you're correct.
@@primitivepathways I worked at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian from 2000-2004. We got to meet some of the surviving Navaho Code Talkers on their way to meet President Bush at The White House.
Your channel is my most used channel for primitive skills knowledge. After trying for ages to knap, you helped solve a lot of things that were difficult for me. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with all of us!
Love this Billy. So glad you’re putting videos out again buddy.
I've got more in the works....so stick around!
@@primitivepathways awesome!
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Why you so mad??
Billy, these videos (and others) have truly helped me to work on my sustainable lifestyle ambitions. Thank you.👍🏻
Thanks so much!
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Its been a while since an upload of this caliber
Got some more in the works!
Excellent!
I agree!
So why aren't you getting pass throughs? Arrow diameter? I was sure it'd pass through at that range. Never mind, I assumed the arrows weighed more than they did. Why aren't you building heavier arrows??
They are replica of Paiute bows and arrows. They were light weight arrows and bows and hunted deer at close range like most western tribes. They were excellent ambush hunters and were able to get close. That’s why
I certainly could make heavier arrows, but I'm replicating the arrows based on the museum examples I've seen. They also made heavier arrows out of hardwood shoots like wild rose, but I know heavier arrows would of course result in deeper penetration. I wanted to see how well the lighter reed arrows would penetrate.
@primitivepathways I understand. I heard on a video a while back that more recent stone points had no notches and were simple triangles any truth to this? seems logical that notches would be better.
Well apparently 45 seconds or so lol. Just wanted to say thank u Billy I came across your bow making series years ago and been a fan since. Definitely became a passion of mine
Woww, thats amazing billy!! How fast are those arrows coming out of that bow?? I have the exact same setup. 320 grain read arrows with a sinew backed juniper bow but my bow is only 30lbs but it flings those arrows 160fps! I just wanna know the speed of yours so i can make a good penetration estimation for my bow and arrows.. here in ND we have Phragmites australis americanus. They are kinda red at this time of year but as they dry out they turn that tan color.
I don't have a chronograph so I don't know the speed.
@primitivepathways you can calculate the speed with your phone! I can make a video and post it so you can see how to do it...if you think you'd be interested of course
I am so impressed with people that can process Sinew
It's not hard to do...but it is tedious...
Was that the Hangin Rock snake?
I think so...it's hard to tell in the video
That is wicked cool man.
Thanks Thad!
I'm thinking they weren't hunting the way we do. I would think the bow was more of a execution tool. No what I'm saying?
I agree...I think they were probably hunting using different techniques, and even possibly doing drives to force the deer into an ambush.
Thank you for the update
Been waiting to see this thanks !!!
Glad you like it!
Nice.
I kept a Copperhead for a while and I remember it being even faster than. They all got immediately bitten whether he intended to eat or not.
Sweet
Thanks brother!
Yeah boii!
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Coming back to this video and seeing it be 13 years old is crazy! I use to rewatch this series over and over again when I was a kid trying to make a functional bow. I then gravitated to modern archery and now I’m bored with it. So here I am again…10 years later. Glad to see you are still posting videos and man I’ve missed primitive archery. Time to make a bow now that I’m more able bodied and able to comprehend instead of being a mush brained child 😂
Awesome channel! Go ducks!
Gar fish scales make good blowgun dart points, as do honey locust or even big black locust thorns. Several years ago I got several gar fish scales from a friend. They were nt as big as the one in the picture. I eventually lost the darts they were on. But hey would kill a cottontail very quickly. I imagine smaller shark teeth would do the same.
+1 sub, awsome channel!
So the native Americans used a wood rasp to help from their arrows. So did they get the wood rasp from?
Thank you! Why was it so hard to find a video like this lmao. Got giant piece of common opal I wanna break open but I’m new to breaking open rocks and these pieces are huge. I want them smaller. But there are really nice piece of opal so I don’t want to damage it all and then there are parts idc about. So I wanna figure out the best way to beat it lol.
Billy, it's good to see you active on UA-cam again. Good job on updating your website, too. I was watching someone on the "Knifeware" channel talking about snapped stone found in Canada and thought of you. This led me back to your channel.
Billy do you plan to do any more fire hardened white wood bow videos? I already have the DVD but it's still cool to get more references.
No I don't. The guy who discovered the concept is getting a little older and he wants to take a step back from bow making. Maybe some other guys will do some videos in the future, but as of now I don't have any plans to make any videos on it.
Thank you from Costa Rica.
I saw your artículo in a magazine, from there i make the arrows in that way....thank you...
What??? Using a compound bow??
Yes! Because the compound bow shoots arrows at higher speed, I wanted to show how well stone points fly, even off a high performance compound bows.
That is cool man 😎👍💯🔥🏹
Feeling old now. Watching videos on "primitive skills" and seeing what I was taught as a kid. 😂
I just had a lot of fun demonstrating arrow making and bows at a festival near me. gonna have a booth too at the local fair with other crafters at the end of this month! very fun and exciting to see everyones interest and hear their stories!