northern woods

[Bone pile]

I'm visiting family in Vermont and it's starting to get real colorfull here.What good bow woods are growing up here? I would like to cut something and store it for next year
Thanks
Bone pile

[blackhawk]

Hophornbeam,hard maple,elm,black locust,white oak,hickory,white ash,etc...lots of hardwoods...

[JackCrafty]

Hey!  That's my neck of the woods.  (I grew up in NH).

There are mostly maples and oaks up there, as far as hardwoods go.  Good, strong woods, both of them.  There are birches there too but I've not had much fun making bows from birch.  Lots of dogwood too and if you can find a big dogwood bush with a large limb inside, by all means take it.

Other woods you might try are apple (crab-apple), cherry, and elm.  There's a bunch of others but the ones I've mentioned are the most common.

[mullet]

Hey, you're missing all of the rain.  You guys have gotten 12" in Venice.

Patrick; Where'd you grow up in New Hampshire?

[huisme]

Maples, Ash, and especially Black Locust are my recommendations. Treat BL like Osage you have to trap.

[osage outlaw]

Grab some HHB if you can find any.  Its good stuff. 

[JackCrafty]

Eddie, I spent my childhood in Portsmouth... on the coast.

[twisted hickory]

I have built a dozen out of hickory. Works good if ya get it good and dry. I am hunting w a over built parallel limbed bow that gets 160 at 9gpp.
Greg

[Bone pile]

Thanks for the responses ,now all I have to do is go cut one.Eddie ,we have been calling down and there is there lots of water everywere and still raining.
Thanks again
Bone

[Olanigw (Pekane)]

Stick with the sugar maple. I've got a prior claim on all the hickory, ash and locust

Have fun with the family.  We're having perfect fall weather this week