---
title: "Video: How to Make a Primitive Atlatl"
description: "All you’ll need is a knife, a couple feathers, and some sinew or cordage. Make a little walkabout into the woods and cut your materials, carve them into tools, and try some target practice. You can use atlatls to hunt (where legal) or in survival situations."
date: "2018-06-30"
modified: "2018-06-30"
authors:
  - name: "Aram von Benedikt"
    job_title: "Writer"
    link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/aram-von-benedikt/"
url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/video-how-to-make-primitive-atlatl/"
categories:
  - "Gear"
  - "Hunting Gear"
  - "Survival Gear"
---

# Video: How to Make a Primitive Atlatl

![](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/PEPNT7TGMFZLBC2OOLL65LC63Y.png>)
*Aram von Benedikt*

Here’s a fun project that will let you tap into your primitive side. All you’ll need is a knife, a couple feathers, and some sinew or cordage. Make a little walkabout into the woods and cut your materials, carve them into tools, and try some target practice. You can use atlatls to hunt (where legal) or in survival situations.

## Author
Aram von Benedikt is one of *Outdoor Life’s* western writers. He has no formal credentials as a writer, only the authenticism born of a life spent in the backcountry and a library of 3,000 books. Writing for *Outdoor Life* came as an unexpected blessing, and he’s still mildly surprised every time he sees his name in print. He lives on a remote Arizona desert ranch with his lovely wife, a handful of half-wild kids, a dozen horses, half-a-thousand cows, a plethora of cactus, and the occasional, big desert muley.

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