As someone who grew up playing with my dad's spare pvc pipes, I had no problem believing that a pvc bow could perform very well. Pvc is a wonder material. Just don't let it sit in the sun.
'Doctrine of competing harms' also called by other names is pretty much common law ... Basically in any situation in which following a law will lead to more harm than not, that law can be considered null and void. Furthermore the 2nd amendment of the constitution trumps any state/local "laws" that directly contradict it. This is what is called the supremacy clause.
There is, however, viable for killing game and not viable... 35lbs is worthless for hunting anything other than small game. If one hits anything other than soft tissue, the arrow will not penetrate. Especially with a traditional style (read "Especially slow-shooting") bow. There is good reason behind minimum draw weight laws.
Pvc bows. Yes. They'll last reasonably long in a survival situation but they shouldn't replace learning to build your own from raw materials because eventually your pvc bow is gonna break.
Um usuário qualquer your never too young if you are interested go get a weaker bow and find a group for your age there plenty of them or make your dad train with you in the backyard
You know when you walk in the woods during deer season without your bow or gun , then a buck shows up. Well I went squirrel hunting with my 35 pound self bow. A doe came in at 15 yards. I came home with groceries. Pass through, with a small flint bird point. A light bow at short range ,can be deadlier than a heavier bow at 40 yards. Especially with primitive or traditional bows. Shot placement is usually easier at 10 to 20 yards, and shot placement is key in archery.
these things are actually really amazing. last season my buddy managed to take down a deer with one that he made. and that got me in the garage experimenting with making my own.
40lbs is all you need for most hunting needs. You dont need to be able to take down an elk from 100 yards but kore realistically a grouse or rabbit from about 50 feet
I make my own pvc bows and love them. Fun to make and shoot. The process teaches you how bows work. My favorites are 4 years old and haven’t lost any poundage.
This, like all PVC bow reviews I have seen, does't give me useful information. I can make a 60lb draw bow out of a green stick, but it will shoot like a dog. The 35 and 40 lb hunting rules are based on arrow speed/penetration with efficient design fiberglass flatbows-- the predominant commercial hunting bows at the time of the legislation. What I need to know from these PVC things is chono arrow speed plus arrow weight for a bow of a given draw weight. Acceptable chono speed (which I have seen on videos) doesn't mean squat if the arrow is a light aluminum target arrow. You have to know both speed and weight. Heck, even a side by side penetration test with a known 40lb draw weight fiberglass laminate recurve vs a pvc bow would be useful info.
Check out the BackyardBowyer - I know h did chrono tests with some of his PVC bows. He's the main PVC bow guy, if there's anything to know about PVC bows or even just archery - he probably has a video on it. He is also pretty cool and will often reply to questions from the comments. Good luck.
@squatchdad52 Nothing wrong with having knowledge about the properties of a bow, even the most simple of old world designs have trackable arrow speed characteristics. I get that there is a nostalgia in using simple and and intuitive technology without all the technical calculations used with modern weaponry, but having a few figures beforehand doesn't hurt.
I had a pvc bow a while back and we did have fiber glass arrows at the time and found that for our particular bow the arrows seemed just too heavy so we ended up making lighter arrows out of bamboo of course our bows were nothing fancy as we made them ourselves everything was hand made from the bow to the arrows and fletchings. But the bamboo arrows did absolutely amazing. Don't know if that helps?
I have an idea for you. Old Laminate or fiberglass Cross-country skis is great for making bows. :-) The center is already beautifully marked by their tip, which helps simetric marking second tip - (Arms of bow), then just grind it to the desired shape and perform the tileration. You could make a video about it...?! Greetings from the Czech Republic and good luck...
My understanding is these aren't good for cold. You need another type of pipe. The guy that made these talked about it here in the comments section. I might see about him making me a "cold weather" bow.
I've shot my schedule 40 bow in 30 deg weather hunting rabbits (wearing a safety shield and a welding coat) it didn't break but it wasn't as smooth shooting tho. Jmo
greyghost1101 you got lucky. I shot multiple bows made of pvcin that weather and all broke or failed. I tested multiple designs. only thing I couldn't test was with pipe that tolerates cold, as it's not available to me.
Will is not getting the grasp of instinctive archery if he thinks that you just bring the bow up and release without aiming. And then he goes "oh yeah now it shoots better" when he takes a second to aim and come to an anchor point. What a coincidence. On another note, great video as always, I enjoy seeing all these cool things you try out in the woods. It's all about having fun anyways. I'm not really trying to bash Will too bad, just making a point for anyone else who could be reading this
Just the way they used the biceps to string the bow and the grip of the bow hand shows that they are no experts on the subject of archery. If your form and technique aren't perfect, how can you tell if it´s the bow, or you as an archer, who is shooting badly?
I live in Alberta Canada and I left a 45lb one strung and outside all winter tor a test. shot it at all different temp ranges down to -30 and never broke or collapsed and preformed same. I am really impressed as is most people I show my bows to how well they will perform. Note the white PVC I have found to be better than the grey in speed
I did too a few weeks ago. I've broken some wooden bow and while waiting my staves to cure to make more, I thought to give pvc a try. I made it too strong and hurt my arm using it. All done according to the backyardbowyer guide. Best if you get his book on pvc bows for better understanding.
Posting at beggining maybe not a good survival bow but definitely fun as hell. But some people can make some beastly ass shit. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
Ok look if I’m surviving on an island for 5 years Oliver queen style with a pvc bow with different settings than allowed does it look like I give a damn about the law?
I have made dozens of pvc bows. The easiest to make and most powerful is made of 3/4" schedule 40 pvc, not heat-formed. It is 52" long with three 48" survey rods and a string I made of dacron and stren fishing line. It is 60 lb at 29" draw. It is probably hunt legal, but I kill cans rather than critters. I find it accurate at 25 yards (length of my backyard), however I have a commercial fiberglass compound bow at 45 lb draw which is much faster. PVC with fiberglass rods is cheap and good but not like the pricey high tech stuff.
You can build then in a day and at varying weights, I have one that shoots 75lbs and is amazing to shoot ,I got mine from backyard Bowyer, well worth the cost
@@condorkon7928 Don't know how that happened.... but I'd imagine that took a hellovah lot of skill. So if that really happened, congratulations to that dude and damn fine shot he made. But that still doesn't change the fact that a 35 lbs bow or a rock isn't the most powerful or effective means to kill a deer (or something similar). Just because you can doesn't mean you should or that it's the most practical option.
@@CharacterMatterz That'll do it... Albeit, I like a little more oomph to my weapon of choice. Usually when I'm hunting deer I like to run a Peterbilt 379. At 70 mph and usually 40,000+lbs I find that deer for the most part stay down... The only problem is I only get hamburger when I get a deer. On the plus side, I find that my rig of choice has just enough kinetic energy and power to take larger animals like elk and even bear. I wouldn't rely on this though, I don't think that 40,000lbs is enough to cleanly take anything larger than a mule-deer, however, in a pinch I have been able to down moose before. If I was running a little light, say the base weight of 18,000lbs, I wouldn't dare go for anything larger than a deer... for the most part, I typically go for rabbits and birds while running an 18,000 pounder.
You forgot to mention the standard pvc pipes you get in America are very different to the ones we get in the UK. I found only one company that imports them and they're the equivalent of $30 per meter.
Interesting concept. I have a 43 foot fiberglass sectional ham radio antenna. Super whippy at the topmost, smallest diameter tubing. I needed to install a 1/2 inch diameter, 6 foot solid fiberglass rod inside the tubing firming it up. The same fiberglass rod (shellacked, even by itself ...) could be put into the smallest of a 1/2 inch diameter PVC (or these fiberglass) tubes, and you would definitely have a 40+ (!) pound pull (probably 80+!). You could make a medium (4 foot, very hard pull) or a long PVC bow (6 foot easier hard pull) out of these, and have some dynamic kick ass hunting!
+John Lord John, I've been working with PVC bows for several years now, using Nick Tomihama's methods for making the bows. One thing that I've learned is that "heavy" is not the same as "fast" when it comes to making bow. Yes, I can make a PVC bow that pulls 50 pounds or more. I could add fiberglass to the inside and beef that up to 70 or 80 pounds of draw. But, and this is the important part, the arrows would actually fly more slowly out of the heavier bows than they would out of my lightest bow. Why? Because the point of the bow is to be an efficient spring, not a heavy spring. So, what I've decided to do is maximize the efficiency of 3/4" Schedule 40 pipe, and abandon the use of 1" pipe completely, and never, ever put any extra weight in or on the bow anywhere near the midpoint of the limb or farther out. All this will do is make it harder to pull, and actually worsen the efficiency of the bow. A properly made, 45# 3/4" schedule 40 PVC bow will throw a 10 grain per pound arrow at over 150 feet per second. I have one of those sitting next to me right this second. No fiberglass or foam filler, no special backing, no reinforced pipe. Just properly bent and shaped PVC tubing. I've heard that some people have gotten their PVC bows up to almost 200 feet per second, by using lightweight wooden siyahs, as wood is lighter than PVC when properly used. I'm happy with what I have, and have been able to hit a 4" target consistently with field points from 15 to 30 yards away, which is all anyone needs to be able to do to hunt in the area where I live. With the amount of kinetic energy these things have, a broadhead would be able to go right through pretty much any prey animal that I'm likely to shoot at, including a deer. Most certainly anything smaller than a deer.
The only problems I uave found with them is to not leave one in your car.. Check out the books by the backyard bower.. He goes into great detail on everything from building the pvc bows to making arrows from dowel rods and even how to make fletching jigs.
While there are more simplistic bows, that one looks amazing. A lot of work went into that. Props to the person who made it. Amazing craftsmanship no doubt
Nic Tomihama's "Simple PVC Pipe Bows" (and ALL his other books) = best (cheap!) money you can spend to get excellent info on how to build top-notch PVC bows. His vids are great too -- shows you how to mold the hot PVC, various tools and methods... I've built several PVC recurves that I hunt big game with and hit with great accuracy out to 50 yards, all day long. Learn the art! Make sure you use brand new PVC, as it breaks down and gets brittle over time -- especially if exposed to sunlight / weather. Whack it with a hammer first at one end, if you're not sure -- if it shatters, don't use it. It's so cheap, you can make ten bows for the cost of one mainstream manufactured bow. Once you've made your bow, PAINT it -- a couple coats -- will protect the PVC from UV damage when you take it outside. Also -- for those who don't know, like I didn't -- this is 'traditional' archery, so use fletched arrows -- 'feather' fletchings (either natural or artificial) that compress as they pass the handle of the bow, so they fly true. Hard (plastic or other) fletchings will bounce off the handle and make the arrow wobble in flight -- meant for compound bows.
I have a PVC long bow that pulls 80lbs at 31" I told some friends/archers about it and they laughed at the idea, next time I saw them I brought it and none of them could draw it back more than 8".
In getting someone back into archery u should first instruct in proper shooting techniques. Stance, pull, anchor point, 2 name a few. All of which lead 2 a much more pleasant experience 4 the beginner
Just made a $5 recurve bow from 3/4” PVC. It draws right around 45lbs @27”. Nice, smooth, and gets the job done up to 80yards so far. Can’t believe how durable a small piece of PVC is
forgot to add that I really like your bow design. It looks like Backyard Boyer's design with wood seyahs. I may make one with fiberglass rods, which should add speed. Thanks for your vid.
A good target is a paper bag stuffed with plastic. Or dog food bags, tarps stuck w duct tape. I've collected shopping bags and stuffed a lot of things for shooting at. Cereal n cracker boxes are good for small game sized targets. 3 pizza boxes will stop a 45# recurve with 1 filled with cereal boxes!
That's really awesome! I gotta make some now. I'm a custom knife maker and blacksmith so this will be something new to add to my ability. Thanks for the video I really enjoyed watching it.
Never heard of exstinctive shooting before..lol smh. After watching the rest of the video I think I've figured it out. Exstinctive shooting must be when you knock an arrow then abruptly jerk it up and sling a arrow without taking any sort of aim whatsoever and then blaming your inaccuracy on not having a proper target. Hmmmm I get it now! Because anyone trying to shoot a bow that way would be extinct in the very near future if their life depended on it...Amusing.......
Instinctive. You shoot from instinct without aiming down the arrow, just the understanding thst the arrow is where you are looking I am an instinctive archer myself and do just fine, it just takes practice to get the coordination down between your eyes and your arrow
I'm looking for a quick assembly take down bow and believe it or not, those PVC bows look great. I mean I need something I can use for home defense as guns are hard to get where I am and there are home invasions. Also, can you leave them strung? I mean home invaders won't wait for me to string my bows up.
No, o didn't have all those negative thoughts about a possible PVC bow. I build things incessantly and figured it would make good bow material. And it does.
These DIY videos of archery all has the same problems. Learn how to shoot first, then you can make a bow. Believe me it takes a long long time🙂 your moves are quite beginner. Try to be smooth, convinient and precise. Good luck😉
A pipe, tape, fiberglass marker rods and cord is all you need. Fiberglass core. Long bow. Less cool but better longevity and no heat required. And quick to put together.
You have to think too: You're not going to hunt with field tips on your arrows. So I believe the power of these bows would be plenty for small game at short distances. so the fact they bounce off that target bag isn't much of an issue for me. I'm definitely interested in making/buying one of these.
I made one at 58 inches and is a 64 pound paracord string and flys at 338 feet per second with a force of over 150 foot pounds at 50 yards. That could kill an elephant. Made it for 15 dollars total with paint and string the handle.
They can break! There are certain inferior qualities of pvc that will shatter.Make sure that the PVC is quality by using a hammer. If it shatters then do not use the PVC.
You have to be on top of a deer to kill it...at best. This isn't survival, it's stupidity. Buy a good longbow or recurve and invest in an actual tent. You wouldn't last a week out here in Montana.
Across the pond, it’s illegal to hunt with any bow, that said I’d definitely want to make one, practice on some small game targets and refine my archery a bit because I haven’t done it in a while and I’m a fair bit rusty
I can see only one downside to PVC bows 421 year into a survival situation that thing snaps you're at a boat you don't have anything you're going to have to learn how to make a wood bow so you might as well learn how to make a wood bow primitive wood bow and do it right
Backyard bowyer has a great channel! good vid
Canadian Prepper
Cool boow
That kid is brilliant!!!
kikal videos
Fvvbh
You can't do a "Are PVC bows any good?" video on UA-cam without mentioning Backyard Bowyer.
Bro, yes! He made a war bow with furniture pvc! Amazing!
absolutely awsome kind regards mike in the uk.
great info overall
......6;50- i felt like those arrows are approaching towards me!!
Would bank line make a better string? Just asking.
Where is the link for the Assassin's Creed Inspired Bow?
i have got 1 piece of pvc and i dont have a heat gun what i need to do
use a stove top, just be careful to heat evenly and not over heat it
+Randy Giackino tnx and arrow
Ya in freezing weather it will crack.
$7 per bow means I can form my own bowman's militia. We will fight in the shade...because our arrows will block out the sun!
lol .. I like your thinking ...
let's conquer Asia ?
then we will fight in the shade
ATACK RUSSIA!
+superteum superteum no attack mexico or Canada they are closer
As someone who grew up playing with my dad's spare pvc pipes, I had no problem believing that a pvc bow could perform very well. Pvc is a wonder material. Just don't let it sit in the sun.
Or the extreme cold
Don't let your laminated recurve bow sit in the sun either.
🌹
I became a bow nerd overnight
Lmao same
Hhahaha..
Same..
when you have to survive there is no legal or not legal .
questionable logic, but ok
'Doctrine of competing harms' also called by other names is pretty much common law ... Basically in any situation in which following a law will lead to more harm than not, that law can be considered null and void. Furthermore the 2nd amendment of the constitution trumps any state/local "laws" that directly contradict it. This is what is called the supremacy clause.
There is, however, viable for killing game and not viable...
35lbs is worthless for hunting anything other than small game. If one hits anything other than soft tissue, the arrow will not penetrate. Especially with a traditional style (read "Especially slow-shooting") bow. There is good reason behind minimum draw weight laws.
What's the point of surviving if you lose your humanity ? When will you people understand that ?
There is no humanity if we don't survive.
Pvc bows. Yes. They'll last reasonably long in a survival situation but they shouldn't replace learning to build your own from raw materials because eventually your pvc bow is gonna break.
easy-to-use, easy to make, light weight, disposable, cheap, deadly, perfect.
15:10 The AC fanboy inside me just screamed in joy. I need one of these things lol. If nothing else, just for fun.
Might be good for a 65 yr old beginner like myself..
CHILEDOUG KIZERIAN you are never to old to begin
I think i'm too young
Um usuário qualquer your never too young if you are interested go get a weaker bow and find a group for your age there plenty of them or make your dad train with you in the backyard
cookiesw thank you man, i'll try
Good
Dude in the camo shorts listens to rush and probably loves dark horse comics.
Definitely
Nothing wrong with either of those
You know when you walk in the woods during deer season without your bow or gun , then a buck shows up. Well I went squirrel hunting with my 35 pound self bow. A doe came in at 15 yards. I came home with groceries. Pass through, with a small flint bird point. A light bow at short range ,can be deadlier than a heavier bow at 40 yards. Especially with primitive or traditional bows. Shot placement is usually easier at 10 to 20 yards, and shot placement is key in archery.
these things are actually really amazing. last season my buddy managed to take down a deer with one that he made. and that got me in the garage experimenting with making my own.
You mean to tell me
That when you fully draw a bow and focus on your shot
*You get better results??*
Chris Hanline who’d have thought it right? Wow.
@@joeltbasham It's a complicated world out there.
Hahaha
Thats the problem with "instinct" technique is sometimes your instinct is crap
I thought that this was going to be an instructional video on making a bow. I kept waiting for the build portion of the video that never happened.
Well if you’re using the 35 lb. draw bow for legitimate survival in Ohio during a SHTF event I wouldn’t worry about the legality of it.
All the American Indians
(First Nation) had was bows about 35 - 40
pound pull bows according to bow makers. Worked for them.
@@psalmsoftheheartministries7103 im sure if they could have had better bows they would have...but ya they got bye no doubt
40lbs is all you need for most hunting needs. You dont need to be able to take down an elk from 100 yards but kore realistically a grouse or rabbit from about 50 feet
look up this guy on UA-cam Backyardbowyer He's legit! Semper Fi!
I make my own pvc bows and love them. Fun to make and shoot. The process teaches you how bows work. My favorites are 4 years old and haven’t lost any poundage.
This, like all PVC bow reviews I have seen, does't give me useful information. I can make a 60lb draw bow out of a green stick, but it will shoot like a dog. The 35 and 40 lb hunting rules are based on arrow speed/penetration with efficient design fiberglass flatbows-- the predominant commercial hunting bows at the time of the legislation. What I need to know from these PVC things is chono arrow speed plus arrow weight for a bow of a given draw weight. Acceptable chono speed (which I have seen on videos) doesn't mean squat if the arrow is a light aluminum target arrow. You have to know both speed and weight. Heck, even a side by side penetration test with a known 40lb draw weight fiberglass laminate recurve vs a pvc bow would be useful info.
Check out the BackyardBowyer - I know h did chrono tests with some of his PVC bows. He's the main PVC bow guy, if there's anything to know about PVC bows or even just archery - he probably has a video on it. He is also pretty cool and will often reply to questions from the comments. Good luck.
getting all big brained about a piece of plastic and a string is missing the point.
@squatchdad52 Nothing wrong with having knowledge about the properties of a bow, even the most simple of old world designs have trackable arrow speed characteristics. I get that there is a nostalgia in using simple and and intuitive technology without all the technical calculations used with modern weaponry, but having a few figures beforehand doesn't hurt.
I had a pvc bow a while back and we did have fiber glass arrows at the time and found that for our particular bow the arrows seemed just too heavy so we ended up making lighter arrows out of bamboo of course our bows were nothing fancy as we made them ourselves everything was hand made from the bow to the arrows and fletchings. But the bamboo arrows did absolutely amazing. Don't know if that helps?
I have an idea for you. Old Laminate or fiberglass Cross-country skis is great for making bows. :-) The center is already beautifully marked by their tip, which helps simetric marking second tip - (Arms of bow), then just grind it to the desired shape and perform the tileration. You could make a video about it...?! Greetings from the Czech Republic and good luck...
You should try shooting it when it's cold outside
My understanding is these aren't good for cold. You need another type of pipe. The guy that made these talked about it here in the comments section. I might see about him making me a "cold weather" bow.
+PREPAREDMIND101 REVIEW THE SAS BOW $199
I've shot my schedule 40 bow in 30 deg weather hunting rabbits (wearing a safety shield and a welding coat) it didn't break but it wasn't as smooth shooting tho. Jmo
Ookami Kage finally someone that knows what I'm talking about lol
greyghost1101 you got lucky. I shot multiple bows made of pvcin that weather and all broke or failed. I tested multiple designs. only thing I couldn't test was with pipe that tolerates cold, as it's not available to me.
Will is not getting the grasp of instinctive archery if he thinks that you just bring the bow up and release without aiming. And then he goes "oh yeah now it shoots better" when he takes a second to aim and come to an anchor point. What a coincidence.
On another note, great video as always, I enjoy seeing all these cool things you try out in the woods. It's all about having fun anyways. I'm not really trying to bash Will too bad, just making a point for anyone else who could be reading this
Just the way they used the biceps to string the bow and the grip of the bow hand shows that they are no experts on the subject of archery. If your form and technique aren't perfect, how can you tell if it´s the bow, or you as an archer, who is shooting badly?
@@kimolsson9386 ALSO MENTIONING THE WAY THEY GRAB AND NOCK THE ARROW...
Im new to archery can you explain what they did wrong please?@@lordgangrelagarwaen6982
I live in Alberta Canada and I left a 45lb one strung and outside all winter tor a test. shot it at all different temp ranges down to -30 and never broke or collapsed and preformed same. I am really impressed as is most people I show my bows to how well they will perform. Note the white PVC I have found to be better than the grey in speed
That's amazing. I would have thought it would get brittle and break in those low temps.
Just built my first pvc longbow. Came out great! Definitely going to build another one.
Fer way can you pls list out each nd Everything you did?
I did too a few weeks ago. I've broken some wooden bow and while waiting my staves to cure to make more, I thought to give pvc a try. I made it too strong and hurt my arm using it. All done according to the backyardbowyer guide. Best if you get his book on pvc bows for better understanding.
Fer way i made mine 2 months ago ,it works so good !!
Make a video.
@@syedarishahmed4321 I want the bow also . How can buy .
I consider a very important creation with pbc, can you be so nice to translate your video to spanish.
I'd love to see how you painted this "wooden" bow. It looks great.
Posting at beggining maybe not a good survival bow but definitely fun as hell. But some people can make some beastly ass shit. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
Ok look if I’m surviving on an island for 5 years Oliver queen style with a pvc bow with different settings than allowed does it look like I give a damn about the law?
I have made dozens of pvc bows. The easiest to make and most powerful is made of 3/4" schedule 40 pvc, not heat-formed. It is 52" long with three 48" survey rods and a string I made of dacron and stren fishing line. It is 60 lb at 29" draw. It is probably hunt legal, but I kill cans rather than critters. I find it accurate at 25 yards (length of my backyard), however I have a commercial fiberglass compound bow at 45 lb draw which is much faster. PVC with fiberglass rods is cheap and good but not like the pricey high tech stuff.
You can build then in a day and at varying weights, I have one that shoots 75lbs and is amazing to shoot ,I got mine from backyard Bowyer, well worth the cost
Does it take Glock mags?
I am going to be selling bows again through Etsy. etsy.me/2waSw3y
35 lbs draw ----> Viable hunting option.
*Laughs in 70 lbs compound.*
i watched a guy take a deer with a rock
@@condorkon7928 Don't know how that happened.... but I'd imagine that took a hellovah lot of skill. So if that really happened, congratulations to that dude and damn fine shot he made.
But that still doesn't change the fact that a 35 lbs bow or a rock isn't the most powerful or effective means to kill a deer (or something similar). Just because you can doesn't mean you should or that it's the most practical option.
I use a station wagon. 6800 lb curb weight.
@@CharacterMatterz That'll do it... Albeit, I like a little more oomph to my weapon of choice. Usually when I'm hunting deer I like to run a Peterbilt 379. At 70 mph and usually 40,000+lbs I find that deer for the most part stay down... The only problem is I only get hamburger when I get a deer. On the plus side, I find that my rig of choice has just enough kinetic energy and power to take larger animals like elk and even bear. I wouldn't rely on this though, I don't think that 40,000lbs is enough to cleanly take anything larger than a mule-deer, however, in a pinch I have been able to down moose before. If I was running a little light, say the base weight of 18,000lbs, I wouldn't dare go for anything larger than a deer... for the most part, I typically go for rabbits and birds while running an 18,000 pounder.
@@condorkon7928 i know a guy that punched a deer to death
You forgot to mention the standard pvc pipes you get in America are very different to the ones we get in the UK. I found only one company that imports them and they're the equivalent of $30 per meter.
Caleb Able maybe he didn't know
Pepega
Your holding the bow upside down in the thumbnail
Interesting concept. I have a 43 foot fiberglass sectional ham radio antenna. Super whippy at the topmost, smallest diameter tubing. I needed to install a 1/2 inch diameter, 6 foot solid fiberglass rod inside the tubing firming it up. The same fiberglass rod (shellacked, even by itself ...) could be put into the smallest of a 1/2 inch diameter PVC (or these fiberglass) tubes, and you would definitely have a 40+ (!) pound pull (probably 80+!).
You could make a medium (4 foot, very hard pull) or a long PVC bow (6 foot easier hard pull) out of these, and have some dynamic kick ass hunting!
+John Lord
John, I've been working with PVC bows for several years now, using Nick Tomihama's methods for making the bows. One thing that I've learned is that "heavy" is not the same as "fast" when it comes to making bow. Yes, I can make a PVC bow that pulls 50 pounds or more. I could add fiberglass to the inside and beef that up to 70 or 80 pounds of draw. But, and this is the important part, the arrows would actually fly more slowly out of the heavier bows than they would out of my lightest bow. Why? Because the point of the bow is to be an efficient spring, not a heavy spring.
So, what I've decided to do is maximize the efficiency of 3/4" Schedule 40 pipe, and abandon the use of 1" pipe completely, and never, ever put any extra weight in or on the bow anywhere near the midpoint of the limb or farther out. All this will do is make it harder to pull, and actually worsen the efficiency of the bow.
A properly made, 45# 3/4" schedule 40 PVC bow will throw a 10 grain per pound arrow at over 150 feet per second. I have one of those sitting next to me right this second. No fiberglass or foam filler, no special backing, no reinforced pipe. Just properly bent and shaped PVC tubing.
I've heard that some people have gotten their PVC bows up to almost 200 feet per second, by using lightweight wooden siyahs, as wood is lighter than PVC when properly used. I'm happy with what I have, and have been able to hit a 4" target consistently with field points from 15 to 30 yards away, which is all anyone needs to be able to do to hunt in the area where I live. With the amount of kinetic energy these things have, a broadhead would be able to go right through pretty much any prey animal that I'm likely to shoot at, including a deer. Most certainly anything smaller than a deer.
John Lord + And belt sand them to limb shape, making them more efficient and to adjust the tiller and draw weight.
Damn I need to get the bow out! Haven't had it out once this year. Sucks being busy all the time.
The only problems I uave found with them is to not leave one in your car.. Check out the books by the backyard bower.. He goes into great detail on everything from building the pvc bows to making arrows from dowel rods and even how to make fletching jigs.
and once the temp. goes bellow freezing... your PVC bow is done...
3 pc arrow??? amazon...
don´t deliver to some countries...
Good info I didn't know this
While there are more simplistic bows, that one looks amazing. A lot of work went into that. Props to the person who made it. Amazing craftsmanship no doubt
the links you gave do not work
Nic Tomihama's "Simple PVC Pipe Bows" (and ALL his other books) = best (cheap!) money you can spend to get excellent info on how to build top-notch PVC bows. His vids are great too -- shows you how to mold the hot PVC, various tools and methods... I've built several PVC recurves that I hunt big game with and hit with great accuracy out to 50 yards, all day long. Learn the art! Make sure you use brand new PVC, as it breaks down and gets brittle over time -- especially if exposed to sunlight / weather. Whack it with a hammer first at one end, if you're not sure -- if it shatters, don't use it. It's so cheap, you can make ten bows for the cost of one mainstream manufactured bow. Once you've made your bow, PAINT it -- a couple coats -- will protect the PVC from UV damage when you take it outside. Also -- for those who don't know, like I didn't -- this is 'traditional' archery, so use fletched arrows -- 'feather' fletchings (either natural or artificial) that compress as they pass the handle of the bow, so they fly true. Hard (plastic or other) fletchings will bounce off the handle and make the arrow wobble in flight -- meant for compound bows.
Impressive stuff! I do have a couple of factory made bows but this looks like a lot of fun :)
- Martin
9:00 hunting tip would have been a kill on that bag versus small game..nicely done video. Thumbs up
I have a PVC long bow that pulls 80lbs at 31" I told some friends/archers about it and they laughed at the idea, next time I saw them I brought it and none of them could draw it back more than 8".
@Hunt And Fish Norfolk it's full of fibreglass too
How did you make your bow
if you use thicker pvc or drive way markes to reinforce the core did I in one just stright and has strong draw
I thought the second the guy was chumlee from pawn shop 🤣
How reliable are they in freezing and scorching temperatures? Would you consider a followup video covering winter and summer (extreme) temperatures?
In getting someone back into archery u should first instruct in proper shooting techniques. Stance, pull, anchor point, 2 name a few. All of which lead 2 a much more pleasant experience 4 the beginner
Checkout Backyard Bowyer and his books and videos
Use the pinch technique & hold the bow in the middle of the hand grip.
I've made a 5-1/2 ft pvc bow with 50lbs draw weight and I do hunt with it lol
Davon Corrie Does it still shoot the same in cold weather
@@tooterplumber1128 Lol, PVC bows will fucking explode in cold weather.
@@mr.techaky7655 that isn't true I shot mine in the winter before while it was cold and nothing happened it shot like it usually does
@@victoriatrevino1833 Hmmm.... Must've been made out of schedule 40 then.... Cause all the PVC I've seen is stupid brittle in winter.
@@mr.techaky7655 if you pay attention to the video, schedule 40 is exactly what they say to use...
Just made a $5 recurve bow from 3/4” PVC. It draws right around 45lbs @27”. Nice, smooth, and gets the job done up to 80yards so far. Can’t believe how durable a small piece of PVC is
forgot to add that I really like your bow design. It looks like Backyard Boyer's design with wood seyahs. I may make one with fiberglass rods, which should add speed. Thanks for your vid.
A good target is a paper bag stuffed with plastic. Or dog food bags, tarps stuck w duct tape. I've collected shopping bags and stuffed a lot of things for shooting at. Cereal n cracker boxes are good for small game sized targets. 3 pizza boxes will stop a 45# recurve with 1 filled with cereal boxes!
I'm scared of having a Tom & Jerry's funny ending, a Tom's eye funny ending specially 🤣
Thank you for sharing, when the zombie apocalypse starts, now I'll be able to arm my friend and family for like $500 bucks, awesome 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂✌🏼💯
What do you think about...Cold Steel Big Bore Blowguns....? I think the darts are the weak point...with cold Steel...?
That's really awesome! I gotta make some now. I'm a custom knife maker and blacksmith so this will be something new to add to my ability. Thanks for the video I really enjoyed watching it.
I'm a die hard wood/sinew back kind of guy, but PVC wouldn't care about being soaking wet for a human lifetime.
Would Rambo use this?
It's surprising how powerful the PVC bows are. I've always wanted to make one. Thanks for the tests!
Never heard of exstinctive shooting before..lol smh. After watching the rest of the video I think I've figured it out. Exstinctive shooting must be when you knock an arrow then abruptly jerk it up and sling a arrow without taking any sort of aim whatsoever and then blaming your inaccuracy on not having a proper target. Hmmmm I get it now! Because anyone trying to shoot a bow that way would be extinct in the very near future if their life depended on it...Amusing.......
Instinctive. You shoot from instinct without aiming down the arrow, just the understanding thst the arrow is where you are looking
I am an instinctive archer myself and do just fine, it just takes practice to get the coordination down between your eyes and your arrow
I'm looking for a quick assembly take down bow and believe it or not, those PVC bows look great. I mean I need something I can use for home defense as guns are hard to get where I am and there are home invasions. Also, can you leave them strung? I mean home invaders won't wait for me to string my bows up.
Dead link to the Etsy store - where can we get these bows??
No, o didn't have all those negative thoughts about a possible PVC bow. I build things incessantly and figured it would make good bow material. And it does.
These DIY videos of archery all has the same problems. Learn how to shoot first, then you can make a bow. Believe me it takes a long long time🙂 your moves are quite beginner. Try to be smooth, convinient and precise. Good luck😉
Their cool and I have made and shot them but I’d rather have a sling bow but overall good video🤙🏼
What it like 18 pounds? 32pounds? Maybe you could kill a rabbit if you were within 20m.
IS HE WEARING EYE LINER ??? PVC BOW AND MAKEUP??? GREAT SURVIVAL TIPS
A pipe, tape, fiberglass marker rods and cord is all you need. Fiberglass core. Long bow. Less cool but better longevity and no heat required. And quick to put together.
You have to think too: You're not going to hunt with field tips on your arrows. So I believe the power of these bows would be plenty for small game at short distances. so the fact they bounce off that target bag isn't much of an issue for me. I'm definitely interested in making/buying one of these.
I made one at 58 inches and is a 64 pound paracord string and flys at 338 feet per second with a force of over 150 foot pounds at 50 yards. That could kill an elephant. Made it for 15 dollars total with paint and string the handle.
Tbh...pvc bow is for training..if you good at pvc then you ready for upgrade
They can break! There are certain inferior qualities of pvc that will shatter.Make sure that the PVC is quality by using a hammer. If it shatters then do not use the PVC.
so what if you hardy use it...will it last or does it age and get brittle? thax
You have to be on top of a deer to kill it...at best. This isn't survival, it's stupidity. Buy a good longbow or recurve and invest in an actual tent. You wouldn't last a week out here in Montana.
Buy a PSE SNAKE recurve bow. Absolutely incredible!
I know I'm 4 years late, but it shouldn't be that hard to fiberglass-back a pvc bow with drywall tape.
Can't prep against diabetes.... That's the future apocalypse.
Make sure you put a towel on the pipe and smack it with a hammer first. Domn't want a failed bow. Could be dangerous.
Olá,meu sonho é ter uma flecha dessa 🏹
Across the pond, it’s illegal to hunt with any bow, that said I’d definitely want to make one, practice on some small game targets and refine my archery a bit because I haven’t done it in a while and I’m a fair bit rusty
Hello ...could you make a video making a bow and materials and sizes. .???
I can see only one downside to PVC bows 421 year into a survival situation that thing snaps you're at a boat you don't have anything you're going to have to learn how to make a wood bow so you might as well learn how to make a wood bow primitive wood bow and do it right
The 550 cord reduces the harmonic wear from the return because it flexes. A static line will rock the PVC.
Why am I watching Nicholas Cage shooting with pvc bow
How did they make it look so much like wood?
trade secret lol
Ugh. Cmon
+Maker Workshop shoe polish
I use a nerf football from the dump. Great lil rabbit target.
They call it instinctive shooting "because you shoot it fast" lmao
Mythic link gone. Out of buxi ess
Definitely paint the bow. I'd use acrylic. It's uv resistant.
Stop trying to explain your poor shooting so much and keep practicing instead guy..
Take pvc bow, and laminate fibreglass... boom