Mulberry??

[Titan_Bow]

While turkey hunting this week in SW Nebraska, I came across a guy cutting some trees down, and it looked like osage, but had different bark than the osage I've seen.  The guy cutting it said it was mulberry, but didnt know what type.  Does anyone know specifically what type of mulberry this is?  I am going to attempt a bow out of it, but if it is a really good bow wood, I want to plan a trip back to cut a lot of it.

[Justin Snyder]

I believe when it comes to the wood, mulberry is mulberry.  It is great wood.  Think of it as osage without the thorns.  Osage and mulberry are close enough relations that they can hybridize. Go get all you can. Justin

[Hillbilly]

I'm not familiar with Nebraska, but the only native mulberry we have here in the East is Red Mulberry (Morus rubra). Asian White Mulberry is also naturalized here and there across the country, as well as paper mulberry. I've only used red mulberry, and it's great wood. Like Justin said, osage is in the mulberry family. Mulberry is not as dense as osage, just make the bow a bit wider/thicker for the same draw weight than you would with osage.

[Titan_Bow]

 Thanks for the info.  I was aware that mulberry was related to osage, but I thought I had remembered hearing a long time ago that a certain type of mulberry was sought out for bow wood.  This stuff grows all over the place where I turkey hunt.  I guess its time to plan another trip to get a truckload of wood.