Hunting Bow
Hunting Bow, useful for short to medium range combat and hunting.
The Hunting Bow is a bow in Rust. Its default arrow is the Wooden Arrow. It deals 50 damage per shot at 32 shots per minute, tied for the highest damage per second of the 4 bows. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Hunting Bow
Loading the next shot takes 1 second, and switching to it takes 1 second. Aiming down the sights narrows its spread from 2° to 1°, 2 times tighter than firing from the hip. Mounted in an Auto Turret, it deals 70% of its normal damage.
There are 4 kinds of ammo for it: Wooden Arrow, High Velocity Arrow, Bone Arrow and Fire Arrow. With the other ammo types, its damage per second is 40 for the High Velocity Arrow and 40 for the Bone Arrow. The High Velocity Arrow flies fastest, at 80 m/s, and the Fire Arrow slowest, at 40 m/s.
From full condition it fires 200 shots with the Wooden Arrow before it breaks.
Hunting Bow damage and stats
Loaded with the Wooden Arrow, the Hunting Bow deals 50 damage per second. The Fire Arrow raises it to 60.
How to craft the Hunting Bow
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 200 × Wood and 50 × Cloth.
200 
50 
How to get the Hunting Bow blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
1 Item 
10 Scrap Blueprint 10 How to repair the Hunting Bow
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 41 × Wood and 11 × Cloth, and you need its blueprint.
×41 ×11 Hunting Bow compared with other bows
Among the 4 bows it ranks 1st for damage per second, 2nd for damage per shot, 3rd for fire rate and 2nd for magazine size.
The closest to it in damage per second are the Compound Bow, Crossbow and Mini Crossbow.
High Velocity Arrow 40 40 1° 80 ×1.510–100m 
Wooden Arrow 50 50 1° 50 ×1.510–60m 
Bone Arrow 40 40 1° 45 ×1.510–60m 
Fire Arrow 60 60 1° 40 ×1.510–60m Damage & DPS are per-shot with the listed ammo; aim cone is the spread in degrees, velocity in m/s.
What the Hunting Bow recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 100 × Wood and 25 × Cloth for one.
×100 ×25 ×120 ×30 
×150 ×37 50% 
×80 ×20 
Bronze Egg
Small Loot BagThe chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Hunting Bow
Tool Box has the best chance at 4.9%, followed by Sunken Crate at 3.3%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.
