WHEN RYAN GILL was 13, his father gave him a stave—or long stick—from a black locust tree, along with a single wood rasp. By the time his dad got home from work that evening, Gill was standing over a ...

What most people see when looking at a tree sapling is only a sapling, however when Lyle Shaulis looks at one, he sees a bow in the rough. Recently, Shaulis found a hickory sapling he thought would ...

John Strunk dreams of carving the perfect bow from the perfect piece of wood. It's adream that he admits, he will work a lifetime to achieve. He gently draws a knife blade across the bark of a vine ...

The Makoshika Bowmen will hold a 3-D archery shoot July 30-31 at their Glendive range. The shoot will begin at 8 a.m. on both days. Concessions and primitive camping will be available.

I've been mildly obsessed with YouTube's "Primitive Technology" channel for almost a year now. In it, an unnamed man in Far North Queensland, Australia builds things in the woods. He shows us the ...