Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: JW_Halverson on August 11, 2020, 07:32:11 pm
-
I was contacted by someone in the Rendezvous community wanting to trade an osage tree on her brother-in-law's property for a bow. Since she is 14 hours away, I had to decline.
I said I would put word out on the wind and see if anything blew in. I have asked her to send me photos of the tree as bait.
-
The tree has been felled and bunked up into 7-8 ft lengths and is loaded on a trailer.
-
Does the trailer come with it??? I am about 3.5 hours north. Maybe Kyle (MO Coon Catcher) will see this - he is a bit closer than me.
-
I’d love to Since it’s not very far away, if I didn’t have so much going on right now. I’m not expecting a free day for a month or so.
Kyle
-
Pics!!!!
-
Yeah, I posted this around on several sites and someone close to her went to take a look. Turns out she would give you a free piece of osage if you made it into a bow for her for free. The rest of it was $50 a stick and there wasn't anything that would even burn straight, much less make a bow.
So sorry.
-
Haha, What a deal!
-
A very small percentage of osage trees are bow quality. It's hard to explain the difference to someone who knows nothing about building a bow. Their neighbor probably told them people make bows from those trees and it's worth a lot of money.
-
A very small percentage of osage trees are bow quality. It's hard to explain the difference to someone who knows nothing about building a bow. Their neighbor probably told them people make bows from those trees and it's worth a lot of money.
That's what I figger, too.
Last time I was at the Classic we stopped in Herman, MO at a farm where a guy builds split rail fences and will sell a little of the osage for a bowyer that stops by. He had a windrow of cut osage logs 50 yds long and 6 ft high. We spent over 3 hours to get 12 staves.
-
I have had countless numbers of people over me the same kind of Osage. You never know though. Arvin