The Deadly Native American Bow That Killed More Frontiersmen Than Buffalos Ever Did

The Deadly Native American Bow That Killed More Frontiersmen Than Buffalos Ever Did Most people think the rifle simply beat the bow, that the gun was always the better weapon. The old ones knew better. The man who came onto our plains feared the buffalo that could trample him, but it was a bent stick and a string of dried sinew that killed more of his kind, faster than his fine rifle could load twice. In this video, I hand down the thing my grandfather taught me with my first bow: the gun shoots once and then begs to be fed, but the bow never stops asking. I'm a Lakota, and a rifle cost a man coin, powder, and lead for the rest of his life. My bow cost me my two hands and not one penny. You'll learn why a skilled bowman put ten arrows in the air before a rifleman's one ball was home, how sinew laid along the back of a short bow made it hit like a thing twice its size, and why an Army surgeon wrote that an arrow wound was deadlier than a bullet.