Twisted Stave Media

11/05/2024

Don’t ever underestimate Mother Nature’s ability to put you in your place 😜

Every now and then it's good to just take off on a solo camping trip and see what happens! That's what I did on my most recent outing, a solo survival challe...

20/04/2024

Primitive Survival Challenge: Bamboo Bow Build, Hunt, Catch & Cook

This may be the best primitive survival/bow building video I've ever done. While on a recent trip to a tropical island, I took on the challenge of building a...

09/03/2024

New vid!

Learning how to make a primitive bow and arrow just takes a little time and practice. Bow building doesn't have to be expensive. You don't have to buy an exp...

20/01/2024

Surviving Subzero Temps - No Tent, No Sleeping Bag | Winter Survival

With winter weather and subzero temperatures, getting lost in the winter woods could be a deadly mistake. It's not uncommon to hear about a hunter or hiker g...

06/01/2024

Hands down, the craziest turkey hunt I’ve evever witnessed…

With just a few days left in the fall turkey hunting season, I grabbed the 20 gauge flintlock smoothbore, loaded up some black powder and 6 shot and hit the ...

23/12/2023

Holy Smokes, WHAT just Happened! FLINTLOCK Elk Hunting 2023 Part 2

Last week Xander Budnick and I snuck in on a big elk herd but, with the limitations of my flintlock rifle, they were just a bit out of range. This week, we'r...

17/12/2023

It's GO TIME! Flintlock ELK HUNTING 2023

The late season in the Rocky Mountains is a special time. By now, most other hunters have either punched their tags or long since thrown in the towel. But fo...

20/11/2023

Cold Weather Tips | Choosing and Layering Winter Clothes

Winter weather is on its way and many of us will be spending a lot of time outdoors so this week's vid will cover some cold weather tips to help you stay war...

12/11/2023

Fen just put out another vid from elk camp. Pop over and check it out!

The Hayes Family elk camp is more than just a hunting trip. When we're not elk hunting, we often take a day to simply hike and enjoy the public lands around ...

11/11/2023

Life in the Mountains | 2023 Elk Hunting

Each September, the Hayes family packs up and heads to the mountains. For how long? Well, that depends on how good the elk hunting is. This year is different...

28/10/2023

I Cooked a Grouse on a WATER WHEEL

On a recent camping trip into the wilderness I was lucky enough to shoot a grouse with my self bow. And since it's been a while since I did any catch and coo...

21/10/2023

Hide Tanning 101 - How to make Leather from Animal Skins, NATURALY

Hide tanning is one of the oldest professions on the planet. And for thousands of years, animal skins have been tanned using the natural tannins extracted fr...

15/10/2023

Action packed few moments 😳

While packing up for elk camp in early September, one of the local farmers stopped by and said he'd seen loads of deer coming out into a bean field the eveni...

19/08/2023

Looking for a calorie packed backpacking food for those grueling mountain hikes? We’ll here ya go😉

Pemmican has been a long-time staple of native Americans and backwoods hunters. It is the original survival food and, in my opinion, is better than any energ...

12/08/2023

Check out our trip to collect obsidian!

Fen and Clay make a trip to a huge obsidian flow to collect obsidian for flint knapping stone arrow heads and primitive blades. We go camping on top of a but...

08/08/2023

Ever think about taking a chance and leaping into the unknown? Yeah, me too…

Mickey joins return guest Clay Hayes out on the homestead. He is a professional outdoorsman best known as the winning survivalist in season 8 of Alone on the...

08/07/2023

The Ultimate Primitive SURVIVAL BOW? Cable Backed Bow Build

Wherever they lived, primitive peoples adapted to their environments and learned to make use of whatever natural materials they had to thrive in the wilds. E...

17/06/2023

What does 5000 YEAR OLD Chewing Gum Taste Like? Let's find out!

I recently came across an article describing wads of chewed up birch tar dating to nearly 6000 years ago. They were unearthed in Denmark during an excavation...

13/06/2023

HE WON $500K ON A SURVIVAL SHOW: CLAY HAYES - Today we are giving you full access to Clay Hayes. He's a YouTuber and Winner of Season 8 of History Channel's...

27/05/2023

Surviving the WORST Storm of My Life on a Bear Hunting Trip in Idaho!

It's spring bear hunting season in the western states and this week, Coye and I gear up to go backpacking and camping in the Idaho wilderness for a few days...

20/05/2023

Is this the IDEAL Survival Bow? - Penobscot Bow

One of the things I love about primitive bows and bow building is the seemingly countless variations of this simple and effective primitive weapon. Primitive...

14/05/2023

Relax, I got this🤣

We dream of owning our own sailboat one day and in this weeks adventure, we rent a sailboat for the day, take the family with us, and head out to learn how t...

13/05/2023

Whether you're just getting into bushcraft and survival, or you're an old sage, a good handsaw is indispensable in the wilderness. From survival shelter buil...

03/05/2023

Everglades adventures!

Clay and I like to take a trip, just the two of us, each year and this year we find ourselves down in the Florida Everglades. Its wild and beautiful and with...

29/04/2023

Flintlock Muzzleloader Turkey Hunt!

There's just something about old school weapons that sucks me in. If I'm not hunting with one of my hand made longbows you'll likely find me in the woods wit...

15/04/2023

Friction fire in the damp woods??

In this video, I'll show you how to make fire even in the wettest weather WITHOUT a match! YouTube is full of friction fire videos done in optimal weather co...

24/03/2023

Lessons from the …

1. It’s not so hard to get out of bed when there’s fishing to be done.
2. Thermacells have ZERO effect on saltwater mosquitos 🦟
3. Good rum is a must 🥃
4. If your leader is frayed, take a moment to swap it out.
5. Jon boats are best polled from the bow 😉

15/03/2023

Been off grid for a while in south Florida. That’s a good combination…

04/03/2023

This week we're back in the Caribbean foraging for dinner form the ocean! We're freedive spearfishing with a pole spear for reef fish. Grunts, snapper, jacks...