Hickory?

[okie64]

I cut some hickory today and was wandering if anybody knows what kind it is? I've made bows from hickory but never really knew what kind it was. I dont know if it even matters as far as makin a bow I would just kinda like to know.

[sweeney3]

Wow that is pretty wood!  I am like you though.  I can tell hickory, but dunno which specific species they are.  I don't think it matters too much, but it would be nice to know.  I plan to get out this summer with my "Trees of Arkansas" book and figure out some of that.

[JW_Halverson]

If I ever left this bow wood desert and found myself in those kinda woods I'd have a stroke. 

Actually, me and the say I'd be carrying would have plenty of strokes!

I'm drooling.  Our climate is perfect for shooting and keeping a hickory bow and the exact opposite of growing wood for one!  How bloody sad.

nice jackpot

[bryan irwin]

nice haul we have so much hickory in N.C. and i could'nt tell the difference either but it makes a good bow and barba Q

[Dauntless]

South Dakota is a bow wood desert?  I'm from Manitoba and I would never have thought it lacked bow wood even though it's dry in the winter, floods in the spring and short in the summers.

Okie, that wood is to die for.  I look forward to seeing it bend a bit.

[JW_Halverson]

I've tried the local bur oak and have had sad results.  Of the green ash bows I have tried only one came out, my first bow ever...all else were poor performers.  I've found a few good hackberry trees at my place, but now I'm out again. 

Now if I could get ponderosa pine to make a good bow, I'd be clean and green!

[Buckeye Guy]

My eyes aint so good , maybe pignut !
for shure not shagbark
If them other trees are ash I would be geting them made into bows to before the emerald ash boerer hits them!
Good looking woods !!!

[Dauntless]

Do you have any serviceberry/amelanchier sp. ?  Dense stuff, almost always in brushes.  I've made bows from the wood and porto from the berries.

Sorry for the off topic nonsense Okie.

[JW_Halverson]

Around here serviceberry is called June Berry (Prunus amellanchier.  We have it, but it gets about 14 inches tall, has 10-14 leaves, and every 5th plant grows A berry.  I grew up in North Dakota and we had woody draws full of them an I remember eating them until I was ready to burst, *sigh*.

[Lee Slikkers]

Great looking haul, dang I'm envious of how fast you got those debarked and cleaned up...I'm still pulling on the drawknife and removing sapwood on my Osage haul 3 weeks ago 

[ken75]

one on the left looks like mockernut , two on right either pignut or bitternut

[JW_Halverson]

That's a great benefit of hickory over osage, Lee.  No sapwood. 

[okie64]

My eyes aint so good , maybe pignut !
for shure not shagbark
If them other trees are ash I would be geting them made into bows to before the emerald ash boerer hits them!
Good looking woods !!!

I kinda thought the first pic was pignut but not sure. The other trees in the pic are post oaks. Dont know if they would make good bows or not? The deer sure do like the acorns off of them though.

Do you have any serviceberry/amelanchier sp. ?  Dense stuff, almost always in brushes.  I've made bows from the wood and porto from the berries.

Sorry for the off topic nonsense Okie.

I dont think we have serviceberry round here. That doesnt sound like nonsense to me.

Great looking haul, dang I'm envious of how fast you got those debarked and cleaned up...I'm still pulling on the drawknife and removing sapwood on my Osage haul 3 weeks ago 

Lee, kinda like Jw said, you dont have to mess with working the sapwood off hickory. If you cut it this time of year just pop the bark off and theres the back of your bow.

one on the left looks like mockernut , two on right either pignut or bitternut

I've heard of all those hickories and if you say so that sounds good to me. I'm guessin they all make good bows? They sure are a pain to split.

[ken75]

lol thats why they make good bows the long fibers dont snap very easy like some woods. there is no better wood to make a drag around throw in the truck and fight off wild hogs bow with than Hickory !!

[Buckeye Guy]

Their so straight and nice hickory you could have just saw-en them instead of splitting oh well you got some good exercise anyway !! Nice haul !!Wish my last batch had been like them !1