green wood hunting bow

[kid bow]

i wanna see if you guys can make a fully capable hunting bow from green wood.

[Onebowonder]

<snip>...and post the pictures of your results on this thread

lets see if you guys can do this

...could you please post your results first so we all have an example of what can be done.  That way your 'challenge' makes a little bit of sense.

OneBow

[sadiejane]

why no hickory?

[kid bow]

to many things can be done with hickory and ill have pics posted in a few

[Bryce]

Your talking from green wood to dry bow? Bc I can go cut a branch and put a string on it and call it a bow in 10 mins.

[vinemaplebows]

Thinking the same thing Bryce.

[kid bow]

let me rephrase my thing here didn't even mean to make it a challenge. i wanna see the bows you guys can build from green wood. not just stringing a branch.i just wanna see if you guys can make a fully capable hunting weapon. sorry for the confusion i dont know why i even wrote that to begin with

[paulsemp]

When I was younger I made a lot of green bows. Yes they will shoot a arrow and yes you can hunt with them BUT I would only do it in a desperate situation. All of them only lasted a few days.

[ionicmuffin]

good practice in case you are in that situation!

[kid bow]

they can last for years if they are made right

[blackhawk]

Why wood I wanna do that when I have oodles of real SEASONED bow wood....there's no point in making bows from dripping wet green wood, and even in most survival situations you might have better luck with primitive traps n such

[ionicmuffin]

well, ive seen in the TBB v1 that if you rough them out and tiller, then you dry it out in the sun an wind it will be very reliable.

[ionicmuffin]

hey hawk you have wood on the brain   

Why wood I wanna do that

[kid bow]

lol i amd adding a serving to a bow that i made a couple years back and its my faithful hunting companion lol

[blackhawk]

hey hawk you have wood on the brain   

Why wood I wanna do that

Dude I've had wood on my brain 24/7 for years...it never stops from the time I wake up till the time I go to bed,n then I'm haunted by it in my dreams

Way back when I did wack a hick sapling down n tillered it out, then cut a dogwood shoot n made an area all with a hatchet only in a recorded hours time ...ill never do that again..it took almost 5" of set and to say it was a dog wood be a compliment