I was fighting my way through a thick spot yesterday to get to an area I wanted to hunt and got all tangled up in honey suckle vines, greenbriar thorns and the dreaded locus tree thorns.

These are some serious thorns for those not familiar. They are on the trunk and on low hanging branches and will go through a hunting boot sole in a second. I know.

Anyway, I had my pruners out snipping my way through and mistook my bow string for a vine. Second I shut down on it I realized my mistake, but was too late. All buy about 4 strands got cut. Got it unstrung quick and put the spare on.
One less freak accident I got to go through anyway.

I abolutley hate those honey locust thorns!

Nasty stuff

Wow, and I thought buzztails and cactus were bad. Those are some nasty thorns.

Hoyt:

Sorry about the bow string.  Good thing you had a spare.

Those locust trees are a pain.  If ya cut em down and burn em the thornes turn into steel spikes.  It takes years for them to rot.  I mean millennia.....  I have a bunch of em scattered around my place.  Finally found something that will kill em but ya can't get it up here.  Same stuff the Texans use to kill mesquite.  The trees are in the same family.

Hate the locust thorns but the deer love to eat the big pods after a good freeze  

Tracy

Wow,this thread title is the exact thing I advised my doc when our family was large enough.

I have NEVER seen such a horrible looking tree. God must have really been having a rough day when he came up with that thing!LOL
GLENN

HOLY CRAP THATS NASTY!!!!!!  

In the locust grove I'm hunting almost all the tree trunks have the thorns. I snip them off as I go up or take a stick and knock them off the trunk. They come off easy, just have to cover your eyes when you snip or hit them with a stick.

I do it on an afternoon hunt when I can see them good. I try to make sure they don't fall at the base of the tree cause they will go through your boot. The hanging branches are what you really have to be careful of when walking so as not to get an eye punctured.

Honey Locust is just nasty wood period.
 I grew up in Southern Illinois and when we were clearing timber I swear I saw sparks coming off the chain saw cutting an old Locust!
    Those thorns are nasty as well!

   Glad you didn't cut all the strands on your string that could have been a surprise!

Holy smokes, I have never seen thorns like that and I don't want to.  We have some black locust up here, but without thorns.  And it sure is hard to cut!

they look really bad.

Nasty...yes, but it sure makes a pretty bow!  Here is my honeylocust sunbear longbow:


 

I've seen nice selfbows from black locust, haven't seen that nasty crap around though. My feelings exactly bowwild!

oh man u are so lucky you didnt cut all the threads on your string /  sign of relief LOL good luck to you this season

   :eek:  WOWSERS!

Very familiar with those big nasty thorns. Had a coon hunting accident with one of those trees.

Wow! Those are some thorns!!!

Bet if you hung a stand in one those trees no one would take it.