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cowboy:
Hey Otoe (was it Glenn?) on that osage in our part of the country anyway, the bugs will attack it almost immideatly after you cut it - think they sense or smell the sap, you'll see em crawling all over it. They breed (from what I've seen) and lay their eggs in the bark, you have a couple of weeks usually and will be safe - if you leave it with bark on for a month or more you'll most likely have a few bugs into the yellow wood a grain or two (or deeper)
  Best to cut the tree and seal the ends soon as it hits the ground. Get it split up and get the bark off as soon as your able, haven't left any sap wood on mine yet will try that on some of these most rescent one's, when you get the bark off seal the whole backside real good. Your on easy street from that point as far as bugs are concerned. Don't work green staves down too small unless you have something to clamp them to or you'll prolly get some twist or sideways warping.

Pappy:
What cowboy said.I cut most of my Osage in the winter and that helps. :)
   Pappy

Pappy:
FRIDAY,YA. Got a big weekend planed.We have the Deer Classic this weekend at the club.
It is a laid back shoot where we shoot 18 deer and 2 Turkey.We score them 12/10/8/ and a
wound is -3.We take that score and opening weekend if you take a deer or Turkey we weigh it and add them to you points.It is a 3 man team event and we usually have 30 to 40 teams.It
is a lot of fun especially on opening weekend.Lots of cooking and get to see a lot of deer.I
also plan on putting up some more stands and tiller an Osage bow I am working on and
of course some camp fire cooking.No Col. Sanders this weekend. ;D.It time to check out my broad heads and get my hunting equipment in order so got lots to do.Hope yall have a good one also.
Pictures Monday. :)
   Pappy

BearG:
PAPPY, cant wait to come down !!!!!
we are talking about the regular week after kids season is that cool, or is a there a better week?
bear

Pappy:
Bear I am off the 5th through the 9th.Had a great weekend,we had the deer Classic at
the club.We had 21- 3 man teams to enter that is a few teams less than normal but it was raingin[finely !!!!! ;D] so it was OK.Worked on my bow some but had to run the registration most
of the day.Ron done some more to his Boo backed bow but ran into a little problem with the grip.
I think he got it fixed,always something with bow building. ???.Had Tuna casserole for Friday night
and Chicken and taters for Sat.Put out 1 more food plot and got 1 stand up also so I guess I am as ready as I can be for opening weekend only 12 days now.Life is good. :) ;)
   Pappy

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