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Offline kid bow

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green wood hunting bow
« on: November 30, 2012, 05:04:46 pm »
i wanna see if you guys can make a fully capable hunting bow from green wood.
« Last Edit: November 30, 2012, 06:22:46 pm by jonah214 »
i need nothing but my old bow and arrows.

Offline Onebowonder

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Re: a challenge (i bet you cant do it)
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2012, 05:19:34 pm »
<snip>...and post the pictures of your results on this thread

lets see if you guys can do this

...could you please post your results first so we all have an example of what can be done.  That way your 'challenge' makes a little bit of sense.

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Offline sadiejane

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Re: a challenge (i bet you cant do it)
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2012, 05:36:35 pm »
why no hickory?
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Offline kid bow

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Re: a challenge (i bet you cant do it)
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2012, 05:43:37 pm »
to many things can be done with hickory and ill have pics posted in a few
i need nothing but my old bow and arrows.

Offline Bryce

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Re: a challenge (i bet you cant do it)
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2012, 06:04:40 pm »
Your talking from green wood to dry bow? Bc I can go cut a branch and put a string on it and call it a bow in 10 mins.
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Offline vinemaplebows

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Re: a challenge (i bet you cant do it)
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2012, 06:09:11 pm »
Thinking the same thing Bryce.
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Offline kid bow

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Re: a challenge (i bet you cant do it)
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2012, 06:17:55 pm »
let me rephrase my thing here didn't even mean to make it a challenge. i wanna see the bows you guys can build from green wood. not just stringing a branch.i just wanna see if you guys can make a fully capable hunting weapon. sorry for the confusion i dont know why i even wrote that to begin with
i need nothing but my old bow and arrows.

Offline paulsemp

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2012, 06:57:34 pm »
When I was younger I made a lot of green bows. Yes they will shoot a arrow and yes you can hunt with them BUT I would only do it in a desperate situation. All of them only lasted a few days.

Offline ionicmuffin

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2012, 07:05:23 pm »
good practice in case you are in that situation!
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Offline kid bow

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2012, 07:08:33 pm »
they can last for years if they are made right
i need nothing but my old bow and arrows.

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2012, 07:11:21 pm »
Why wood I wanna do that when I have oodles of real SEASONED bow wood....there's no point in making bows from dripping wet green wood, and even in most survival situations you might have better luck with primitive traps n such

Offline ionicmuffin

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2012, 07:11:44 pm »
well, ive seen in the TBB v1 that if you rough them out and tiller, then you dry it out in the sun an wind it will be very reliable.
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Offline ionicmuffin

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2012, 07:13:29 pm »
hey hawk you have wood on the brain   
Why wood I wanna do that
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Offline kid bow

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2012, 07:14:17 pm »
lol i amd adding a serving to a bow that i made a couple years back and its my faithful hunting companion lol
i need nothing but my old bow and arrows.

blackhawk

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Re: green wood hunting bow
« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2012, 07:23:18 pm »
hey hawk you have wood on the brain   
Why wood I wanna do that

Dude I've had wood on my brain 24/7 for years...it never stops from the time I wake up till the time I go to bed,n then I'm haunted by it in my dreams >:D

Way back when I did wack a hick sapling down n tillered it out, then cut a dogwood shoot n made an area all with a hatchet only in a recorded hours time ...ill never do that again..it took almost 5" of set and to say it was a dog wood be a compliment