Glenn
Senior Member
Anyone have any Osage trees that they would like to get rid of?
Wanting to cut some for bow wood...
Will travel...
Wanting to cut some for bow wood...
Will travel...
This past Spring I planted about 2 gallons of Osage Orange mush full of seeds on our property in Gordon County. Of course I will likely be dead and gone before they are old enough to harvest for bows but hopefully someone will one day. I brought back a half dozen oranges I picked up on an Illinois hunt in '06. I let them rot during the winter in a 5 gallon bucket with water.
I know this isn't much help to you, just chattin'.
Might be easer to just buy a stave. Here is just one of several suppliers.
http://www.osagestaves.com/
Good luck Glenn.
I still have a lot of contacts in Ks.
Someone might be willing to ship to you if you can give a description of what you're looking for, length, diameter, etc.
Rick
Well we are loaded with mock orange trees. Some say it is osage orange, has fruit about the size of golf balls. While it is full of thorns, the limbs are too small to make a bow out of, ill ask nic.
Thanks nic, i figured those things were good for nuthing. Even the rabbits wont eat them. i once thought our place wuz loaded with ash trees, not, elm.