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Offline JW_Halverson

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Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« on: August 11, 2020, 07:32:11 pm »
I was contacted by someone in the Rendezvous community wanting to trade an osage tree on her brother-in-law's property for a bow. Since she is 14 hours away, I had to decline.

I said I would put word out on the wind and see if anything blew in.  I have asked her to send me photos of the tree as bait.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2020, 08:35:06 pm »
The tree has been felled and bunked up into 7-8 ft lengths and is loaded on a trailer.
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Offline TimBo

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2020, 09:34:37 pm »
Does the trailer come with it???  I am about 3.5 hours north.  Maybe Kyle (MO Coon Catcher) will see this - he is a bit closer than me.
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Offline Mo_coon-catcher

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2020, 08:42:28 am »
I’d love to Since it’s not very far away, if I didn’t have so much going on right now. I’m not expecting a free day for a month or so.

Kyle
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Offline Selfbowman

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2020, 08:58:19 am »
Pics!!!!
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Well I'll say!!  Osage is king!!

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2020, 04:50:37 pm »
Yeah, I posted this around on several sites and someone close to her went to take a look. Turns out she would give you a free piece of osage if you made it into a bow for her for free. The rest of it was $50 a stick and there wasn't anything that would even burn straight, much less make a bow.

So sorry.
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2020, 11:15:57 pm »
Haha, What a deal!
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2020, 09:22:22 am »
A very small percentage of osage trees are bow quality.   It's hard to explain the difference to someone who knows nothing about building a bow.  Their neighbor probably told them people make bows from those trees and it's worth a lot of money. 
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2020, 08:18:02 pm »
Quote from: osage outlaw on August 15, 2020, 09:22:22 am
A very small percentage of osage trees are bow quality.   It's hard to explain the difference to someone who knows nothing about building a bow.  Their neighbor probably told them people make bows from those trees and it's worth a lot of money.

That's what I figger, too.

Last time I was at the Classic we stopped in Herman, MO at a farm where a guy builds split rail fences and will sell a little of the osage for a bowyer that stops by. He had a windrow of cut osage logs 50 yds long and 6 ft high. We spent over 3 hours to get 12 staves.
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Offline Selfbowman

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Re: Anyone just south of Lebanon Missouri want osage?
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2020, 06:38:24 am »
I have had countless numbers of people over me the same kind of Osage. You never know though. Arvin
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