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Clay Hayes Self-Bow Series: Building a Self-Bow

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Long before Clay Hayes ever appeared on Season 8 of History Channel’s hit show “Alone”, where participants test their mental toughness, physical toughness, and bushcraft in a crazy competition of survival and attrition, he was building self-bows and teaching others to do the same. Folks like Jim and Mark, who made the trek to Florida to tap into clays wealth of hard-earned self-bow knowledge. Making bows, hunting with them and sharing his passion for it are at the heart of who Clay is. Follow along as he details the fascinating process of making a self-bow and much more.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public

0:09.4

lands, the second amendment and good food.

0:18.2

Alright what is up everybody welcome to episode two of this most fantastic pod venture.

0:24.4

If you're watching on YouTube again and if you're not I'm going to describe it we're

0:27.2

sitting down at shave horses and they're actually in a very amazing apparatus it's a chair

0:35.8

that swivels it's got a footrest the front of it swivels it's got like a foot operated

0:40.7

clamp that you can clamp your bow down in as as you can see with Jim over here and the

0:46.0

demonstrator and this is about where Jim and I have been posted up for the last two and

0:51.2

a quarter days.

0:52.2

It's become quite comfortable we've been working on bows with Mr. Clay Hayes we're down

0:56.9

and we're down in the panhandle of Florida right now on the Hayes Ranch so we had in the

1:01.8

previous pod venture which I definitely recommend any not pod for the previous podcast

1:07.1

of this pod venture yes I recommend everybody to and into that because that was a good

1:10.6

one we introduced Clay we talked a lot about his history and how he got into hunting and

1:15.0

how he got into bow building his time with the you know natural resources and all that

1:21.3

good stuff so anyway lots of really really interesting stuff there but now we're going

1:24.9

to get a little bit into the nitty gritty of yes the what in the how of what we've been

1:30.8

doing the last couple days cool thing that we've done here so and we're actually our

1:35.1

bows Jim are outside drawing right now yep we put that little coating on them the

1:40.3

year thing yeah what was what was the the coating that we just put on him to kind of finish

1:44.0

him Clay just a spar your thing spar your thing which that's really that's one of the

1:48.0

more final steps we're going to back up there and we'll talk about exactly how one might

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