Pecan selfbow

[FilipT]

For what species is just name "hickory" used, is it a pignut hickory or something else?

[wapiti1997]

within "hickory" there's pignut, bitternut, shagbark, shellbark and mockernut, just in this area...  just hickory is a broad scope and pecan certainly fits..

[PatM]

Hickory is divided into True or typical Hickory and the Pecan Hickories. Actual Pecan is the only one that people seem to use that name for rather than generically calling it Hickory

  The two types can still hybridise so the separation can't be much of a difference.

[Danzn Bar]

Hickory or holly, dosen't matter to me ,,,,,congratulatios with meat on the ground ....again way to go joe.....
DBar

[FilipT]

I know that hickory is broad term, but my question is whenever you see "hickory bow", of what particular species is that bow? I think you all understand, everybody calls it simply hickory, but obviously its one particular type of hickory.
What are differences between Pecan hickory and others, do they have similar tension/compression ratio and SG? How is their workability?

[Chief RID]

Congrats and pretty work.

[sleek]

I know that hickory is broad term, but my question is whenever you see "hickory bow", of what particular species is that bow? I think you all understand, everybody calls it simply hickory, but obviously its one particular type of hickory.
What are differences between Pecan hickory and others, do they have similar tension/compression ratio and SG? How is their workability?

Any answer to that question ( which I do not have ) will be general. There is a large difference in between same species only feet apart, even staves taken from the same tree to say one species is better than the other.

[Arrowbuster]

Way to get it done Joe. On the bow and on the deer.

[rps3]

Congratulations, my first selfbow deer was taken with a hickory stick.

[PatM]

I know that hickory is broad term, but my question is whenever you see "hickory bow", of what particular species is that bow? I think you all understand, everybody calls it simply hickory, but obviously its one particular type of hickory.
What are differences between Pecan hickory and others, do they have similar tension/compression ratio and SG? How is their workability?

  People just use what is common locally. Some of the Hickories are much more widespread and common so a typical hickory bow is likely to be one of those types.
  Pignut generally gets the nod as the best  and Shagbark is frequently used as well.

  You can look up the numbers in wood strength databases and get an idea of their relative strengths but most of them have quite similar properties.
  As mentioned though the Pecan Hickories are somewhat weaker all around.

[bradsmith2010]

nice  bow ,, nice way to test the cast,, congrats

[bjrogg]

Nice bow looks like you got her sighted in good.
Bjrogg