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Kegan:
I can't be sure, but I beleive someone had mentioned "white hickory" at a local lumberyard and woods dealer. He said it was an uncommon species, but was known for coming out with clear, all white boards throughout the tree. I am pretty sure it behaved just like normal hickorys (shagbark and smooth bark), if only makes more color coordinated boards :P.

tom sawyer:
Yes I have, I've used it.  Its another name for mockernut hickory.  We have it up here, and yes the heartwood is very light and hard to tell from sapwood.  Its a smoothbark and is nearly as good as pignut, which is the consensus favorite of bowyers.  Mine was great in tension and so-so in compression, I had a couple of times where I got chrysals on the belly.

http://forestry.about.com/library/silvics/blsilcartom.htm

Google is a wonderful thing.

DCM:
I don't prefer pignut over shagbark despite it's reputation for flight bows, and I've heard the same from certain a big named crumudgen.  Frets to easy.  Haven't tried mockernut but with hickories there is a lot of grey areai n properties between subspeciies and specimens.  I'd say a good clear specimen is at least as important for backings.  I'd say go for it, and have some belly cores cut too.

DCM:
"Hickory nuts are a minor source of food for ducks, quail, and turkey (7,21)."

I usually just scan these pages.  There's a lot of extraneous stuff.  But this caught my eye.  I want to see a bobwhite quail each a hickory nut.  It's big as their heads!

mullet:
    Heck,I'd like to see a turkey eat one.The only thing I've seen eat them is squirrels and hogs.

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