Building a Yew Crossbow from Scratch

This week I&mixing it up with a recurve crossbow build. We&be using an old board and a junk piece of Pacific Yew left over from building a longbow. With just scrap materials and hand tools we&building a yew crossbow from scratch. Although I&build hundreds of selfbows, longbows and recurves, this is the first crossbow I&ever attempted. It was a fun project and definitely not the last one I&build. Anyone with basic woodworking skills and a few simple tools could build a simple crossbow like this in a day. I&pretty impressed with the performance of the wooden crossbow. The cast and penetration on a foam target isn&nearly as good as one of my longbows but for hunting at close range on small to medium game, it should work just fine. Heck, I may even build one and take it hog hunting this winter. If you&into gaming, you might see something similar in the games Elden Ring or Albion online (I have no idea what that is but it&a pretty popular search term haha...). Towards the end of the video I shoot it a bunch with some slow motion thrown in for good measure. Don&forget to subscribe to the channel. We&uploading a new video each week that features one of the following topics: archery, bow hunting, bow building, survival skills, bushcraft, self reliance, primitive skills, primitive bows, hunting, camping, fishing, and a lot more! Big thanks to our partners who help support these videos! You can also connect with me on my other media outlets!