Took my hackberry bow out for a few last days of deer season and scored.

Keenan, I was splitting firewood, bud.

Saved a six foot section of the post oak trunk to split for staves.

Today I got 4 staves out of the best side of the trunk. Two of those need to be split again to give me a total of 6 post oak staves.

Haven't heard of anyone making a bow from post oak. I hope these will be usable. The grain appears straight.  The growth rings are tight. The staves were quite wet. I expect it'll take a while to dry these out.  :rolleyes:

David, congratulations! I like you hunting camo, I am thinking about going old school wool this year.

Nice one Dave!

Today I learned that when chasing a ring on a stave that has very thing ring's stop at the ring above the one you want and scrape the rest of the way.  Went through 3 rings trying to get one unviolated.  Lesson learned.

-Jeremy  

Continued to build my stash up, worm holes and all...lol.  Got 6 staves and 2 more billets chased down today.

Congrats Dave.

I finally shoveled the first truely significant snowfall of the season up here, maybe 6 or 8 inches  

Looks like a nice one DVS, Congrats!!!

oh yer done frosty, cooked, pooched... you have had the bow dream!!!

Cooked up some deer heart for me and the kids for dinner. Fresh never frozen.      

My three year old daughter went from,( I'm not hungry ) to I want the whole thing. Mission accomplished.

Dave, you mean the heart was still in tact?

Only got four done today, but these four were good staves.  And the stash is growing

Charlie you're gonna be tripping over that stuff. Better send some my way!

I got this in the mail. Guess we will see if its a suitable replacement for urac.

Worked on my tade bow for PA Red Oak... Looking good but we shall see as we go along.

Wishing osage grew in my neck of the woods... Dave's pic make me super jealous!!!

At work now doing reports... stinks

I shot a mid 60#'s static recurve I just tillered. Im wondering if I need to trim 3-4#'s off it. Its a stoudt one right from the start of the draw. The sound the string gives off when I snap an arrow on scares dogs away.....

I made cedar arrows and worked on Pearly Boys BBO.

QuoteOriginally posted by Roy from Pa:
I made cedar arrows and worked on Pearly Boys BBO.

And it BETTER be good or I will send it right back to SW PA.

I fried squirrel. This picture was taken just before I made onion gravey to go with them.

That looks tasty Eric! Worked on my tillering tree so that is ready to go. Also going slow on removing wood from my rawhide backed red oak board bow for PA trade...