Its been a gradual growth into primitive archery for me, starting with bows, etc. I've steered away from cutting and curing my own shoots for whatever reasons, but after a fire in our woods several years back that destroyed a lot of white oak and hickory trees I've noticed a lot of wild blackberry and dozens of clumps of what I believe is hop hornbeam coming up everywhere. From what I can glean on the internet this is supposed to be a spreading-type shrub but so far its growing tall, straight and limbless, I guess due to its growing in competition with the older, scarred hickory and oak. I've marked a few 'trunks' for future bow wood, but was wondering if the smaller shoots can be used for wooden arrow shafts.
Thanks, Eric
