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Offline Pappy

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Re: A simple Hackberry Bow
« Reply #30 on: September 04, 2012, 11:41:36 am »
Very nice bow Ryan,I like the finish work myself. :) and can't beat the way the grain looks in Hackberry. :)
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Offline jimmy

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Re: A simple Hackberry Bow
« Reply #31 on: September 04, 2012, 02:41:47 pm »
There is tons of hackberry where I live.  Me and Sidewinder are entertaining the idea of working with it, I just always thought it might not be worth the effort.  Your bow looks real good though.  Can you give more dimensions on it?  Did it take on any set?
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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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Re: A simple Hackberry Bow
« Reply #32 on: September 04, 2012, 03:04:54 pm »
It's pretty decent wood. dimensions about like any other white wood should be fine.  it took a little set. again, about like other white woods. im sure it will take a little more over time. It was a good dry piece tho. cured since '07.lol    I'm not hesitating to hunt with mine. I have a set of 8 sparkleberry, privet and hackberry arrowshafts between 650-725 grains that shoot great off it.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: A simple Hackberry Bow
« Reply #33 on: September 04, 2012, 11:21:45 pm »
Another great bow Gill.  Reminds me that hackberry is on my bow wood bucket list.  Did you know the world's smallest genome belongs to an endosymbiont of a small aphid like bug parasitic to the hackberry tree?
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