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Offline DuBois

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This is Hickory, right?
« on: May 10, 2017, 12:39:30 pm »
From NE Kansas.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2017, 12:56:45 pm »
Looks like oak to me.  But I'm no expert.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2017, 02:54:26 pm »
That's chestnut oak. Hickory has a composite leaf.
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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2017, 03:16:30 pm »
Some kind of oak I would say.I've got tons of pig and shag hickory here.
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Offline High-Desert

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2017, 03:48:17 pm »
Hickory has pinnately compound leaves that increase in size towards the tip.
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Offline jaxenro

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2017, 04:15:38 pm »
is chestnut oak different from regular oak? doesn't look like regular oak
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Offline DuBois

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2017, 04:54:40 pm »
Chestnut oak any good for bows?
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Offline Pat B

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2017, 06:03:25 pm »
There are a gazillion oaks and this is one of them. It is in the white oak family. Probably will make a good bow.
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Offline bushboy

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2017, 06:24:43 pm »
Yes oak for sure!very tension safe but low on the compression side!needs a solid belly toasting.
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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2017, 06:51:17 pm »
I am thinking now that it a chinquapin oak. Was looking at a "trees of Kansas" website and leaves looked just the same.  I'll toast it when I ever get to trying it out.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2017, 07:20:36 pm »
Chinquapin oak has narrower leaves.
 If it is lower in compression trap the limbs in favor of the belly...then toast the belly.
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Offline Jim Davis

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2017, 09:12:41 pm »
Chestnut oak
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Offline rps3

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2017, 08:33:34 pm »
My most rewarding place to hunt over the years has been in a place loaded with these trees. The acorns have a beautiful color scheme too.
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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: This is Hickory, right?
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2017, 05:13:18 am »
I agree.  I have had good luck hunting deer feeding on chestnut oak acorns.  We have swamp chestnut oaks that dump huge acorns in October.  Never tried to make a bow from it.  The timber folks market it right along with white oak.  I bet it makes a good bow.
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