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Hunting Bow
Ranged weapon,Blueprint
A repair bench brings the Hunting Bow back from broken for 40 Wood and 10 Cloth.
Damage is one body hit up close, with no armour. A headshot multiplies it against players only. Damage per second empties one magazine and counts the reload. Velocity and spread are applied locally by your game client, while the server bounds their limits.
What the Hunting Bow is looted from
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Hunting Bow, most likely first
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item. “37 + 50%” means 37 every time and a 50% chance of one more.
Hunting Bow skins
81
81 skins on the Steam Market change how the Hunting Bow looks, from $0.99 to $12.39.
Also listed: 10 Twitch and Kick drops, marked “Drop”. They never reach the market, so they have no price.
Hunting Bow stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Hunting Bow is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #1443579727, console shortname bow.hunting). Loaded with standard Wooden Arrow, it delivers 50 base impact damage from a single-round chamber in active combat. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
Hunting Bow, useful for short to medium range combat and hunting.
Monument recycling yield: Radtown green units return 50% of ingredients (5s cycle), beating 40% yellow safe-zone units by +25%
Bench repair & durability cap: Full repair costs 40 Wood and 10 Cloth (zero rare bodies) while capping max condition by 20%
Conveyor & locker automation: Filter by category or shortname bow.hunting to auto-stock locker kits and storage boxes
Hunting Bow crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
Crafting Hunting Bow in Rust takes 15 seconds by hand without a workbench, with all ballistics, crafting, and durability values read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler recovers base materials at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Damaged copies repair at a Repair Bench for a fraction of recipe cost.
How Hunting Bow compares to related weapons in Rust
When comparing Hunting Bow against related weapons in Rust, craft copies once the blueprint is unlocked (15 seconds per craft) and recycle surplus spares at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base efficiency) rather than a safe-zone yellow recycler (forty percent efficiency) to maximize recovered materials.
Weapon
Damage
Fire Rate
Sustained DPS
Workbench / Source
Blueprint (Node / Path)
Hunting Bow
50 dmg
1.85s cycle
27 DPS
Crafted by hand
10 scrap (Table)
LR-300 Assault Rifle
40 dmg
500 RPM
160.4 DPS
Military crate / Vendor
Uncraftable
Semi-Automatic Rifle
40 dmg
343 RPM
91.1 DPS
Workbench Level 2
60 node / 930 path
MP5A4
37.5 dmg
600 RPM
163 DPS
Workbench Level 3
120 node / 420 path
Related items
Compare Hunting Bow with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Hunting Bow against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons.
Frequently asked questions about Hunting Bow in Rust
What are the damage, fire rate, and range stats of the Hunting Bow in Rust?
Loaded with standard ammunition, the Hunting Bow deals 50 base damage per hit, firing once every 1.9 seconds (27 sustained DPS) in Rust, dropping to 80% damage past 60 m. Against a fifty-percent projectile-protection Metal Chest Plate, close torso hits deal twenty-five net damage and down a full-health player in four shots.
What ammo does the Hunting Bow use in Rust?
The Hunting Bow fires Bone Arrows, Fire Arrows, High Velocity Arrows and Wooden Arrows, reloading after every shot in Rust. Holding the reload key (R) opens the ammunition radial menu, letting players switch between standard and specialty rounds in their inventory.
How do you get the Hunting Bow in Rust?
The Hunting Bow is crafted by hand from 200 Wood and 50 Cloth in Rust. Raw ores smelt into metal inputs in a furnace while non-craftable components must be looted from monument crates before queuing the craft at your workbench.
Which crates drop the Hunting Bow in Rust?
The Hunting Bow drops from 2 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Tool Box (4.9% chance) and Sunken Crate (3.3% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
What does the Hunting Bow recycle into in Rust?
The Hunting Bow recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 25 Cloth and 100 Wood. Monument green recyclers shred items one unit at a time on fast radtown cycles, whereas safe-zone yellow units trade lower material recovery for peacekeeper protection.
How long does the Hunting Bow take to craft in Rust?
The Hunting Bow takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 2 or 3 in Rust. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID 1443579727 across 85 weapons and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped on a default server.
How long does the Hunting Bow take to despawn in Rust?
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Hunting Bow despawns after 5 minutes by default. Picking it back up into a player inventory or storing it inside a base container immediately resets that ground despawn timer, which the server scales by item rarity tier.
What is the item ID for the Hunting Bow in Rust?
The Hunting Bow has 32-bit signed item ID 1443579727 and shortname bow.hunting in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Weapons category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
What is the give command for the Hunting Bow in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Hunting Bow in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give bow.hunting 1 or inventory.giveid 1443579727 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands require administrator or moderator privileges on the server, while regular players can bind a quick-craft shortcut key instead.