Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: wapiti1997 on September 03, 2016, 09:55:42 pm
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20 or so years ago I planted a couple of pecan trees. One was shading the back deck so the wife asked me to cut it. I put away a few staves, and figured pecan was a hickory so it ought to make a bow. I made the wife one last year. This year I wanted to make a new bow to hunt with..
It took some set, but feels good and puts an arrow where I look in my effective range..
It's 66 inches ntn, 47# @28.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/Mobile%20Uploads/0812161611_zps4i7loypn.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/Mobile%20Uploads/0812161611_zps4i7loypn.jpg.html)
I made a moose hide strike plate and shelf pad, shaved the hair off with a scalpel leaving a stiff bristly launcher.. The hide is scraps from a taxidermist.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/Mobile%20Uploads/0812161627a_zpsyhm0ucu1.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/Mobile%20Uploads/0812161627a_zpsyhm0ucu1.jpg.html)
Tip overlay is cow horn.
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/Mobile%20Uploads/0812161627b_zps45sxktxk.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/Mobile%20Uploads/0812161627b_zps45sxktxk.jpg.html)
As they say on Forged in Fire... "It will Kill!"
Meet "Toxicarya"!
(http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee423/joelacefield/Mobile%20Uploads/0903160915_zpsk9cerq87.jpg) (http://s1227.photobucket.com/user/joelacefield/media/Mobile%20Uploads/0903160915_zpsk9cerq87.jpg.html)
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Nice bow and nice shot!
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The proof is in the pudding. Well done.
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Outstanding!
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Gorgeous!
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Great job on the bow and harvest!
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Way to go Joe....nothin like a opening day doe on the ground.
DBar
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Great story. Congrats
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Nice!
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Nice outcome on your bow and your hunt.Congrats.
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i never thought pecan would make a bow... the limbs always break under their own weight...
but that is a sweet looking bow and congrats on filling the freezer with it..
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i never thought pecan would make a bow... the limbs always break under their own weight...
but that is a sweet looking bow and congrats on filling the freezer with it..
I'm smoking some ribs today and chopping up some of the trimmings to use for smoke. It's stronger in tension and very difficult to break. Now a pithy branch full of nuts might be a different story.
It does take some set and is slow, humidity is always 70% or better, even my house is 50% or better in the summer..
It is quiet and forgiving..
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Woo! Way to introduce a bow with it's first kill (I presume)! Like that rest too
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isn't it just hickory..?
very nice bow!
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isn't it just hickory..?
very nice bow!
Pecan is in the same genus, Carya, thus the name of Toxicarya...
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For what species is just name "hickory" used, is it a pignut hickory or something else?
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within "hickory" there's pignut, bitternut, shagbark, shellbark and mockernut, just in this area... just hickory is a broad scope and pecan certainly fits..
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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.
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Hickory or holly, dosen't matter to me ,,,,,congratulatios with meat on the ground ....again way to go joe.....
DBar
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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?
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Congrats and pretty work.
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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.
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Way to get it done Joe. On the bow and on the deer.
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Congratulations, my first selfbow deer was taken with a hickory stick.
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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.
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nice bow ,, nice way to test the cast,, congrats :)
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Nice bow looks like you got her sighted in good.
Bjrogg