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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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big ol stave run
« on: April 10, 2011, 06:34:31 pm »
took a "business" trip down to Alabama and Florida to see family and hunt turkeys  with dax in bama.  got an eastern bird thanks to dax's guiding, and hope to arrow an oceola while here in FL.  But while in bama, Dax and I, went and did some good southern hardwood huntin.  got a nice variety of wood that i cant get in the great state of Montana.  cut a few trees and got a whole bunch of staves.  when they all got spilt and sealed i ended up with 32 individual bows staves total. 
   13 Eastern red cedar
     7- flowering dogwood,
    6 hickory
    4 winged elm
    1 very clean cherry
   and 1 really nice sweet gum just for fun... outa make a bow....just probably not like elm or hickory.   

not to mention i picked up a box worth of some sorta chert that is there local...not sure what it is but its peanut putter colored, and flakes great without heat treating......im gonna post pics of it in the flintknapping section in hopes someone can tell me about it
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Offline Pat B

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Re: big ol stave run
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2011, 07:38:59 pm »
That stuff is way too straight to build bows with!  :D
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Offline nclonghunter

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Re: big ol stave run
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2011, 08:59:37 pm »
"The forest of the straight trees". Even the dogwoods are long and straight. Those look great, well done!
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Offline Barrage

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Re: big ol stave run
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2011, 11:33:17 pm »
That should keep you busy for awhile.
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Offline JackCrafty

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Re: big ol stave run
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2011, 12:06:52 am »
Eh, that's good for starters... ;D
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Offline cowboy

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Re: big ol stave run
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2011, 12:35:51 am »
Looks like you were a man on a mission in Bama, Ryan! I wanna see that rock ;D.
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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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Re: big ol stave run
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2011, 01:25:03 am »
thanks, yeah that rock is posted in the knapping section. pretty cool stuff when i find it myself.....never really lived in good rock huntimg country...just crummy chert and occasional pieces of coral....nothing of any real quality or quantity.
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Offline RidgeRunner

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Re: big ol stave run
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2011, 10:55:42 am »
Nice stash of bow wood. Good haul.

If you are still in Bama you got to come by and see me.  I am in Bama.

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