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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DuBois on May 10, 2017, 12:39:30 pm

Title: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: DuBois on May 10, 2017, 12:39:30 pm

From NE Kansas.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: osage outlaw on May 10, 2017, 12:56:45 pm

Looks like oak to me.  But I'm no expert.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: Pat B on May 10, 2017, 02:54:26 pm

That's chestnut oak. Hickory has a composite leaf.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: BowEd 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.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: High-Desert on May 10, 2017, 03:48:17 pm

Hickory has pinnately compound leaves that increase in size towards the tip.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: jaxenro on May 10, 2017, 04:15:38 pm

is chestnut oak different from regular oak? doesn't look like regular oak

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: DuBois on May 10, 2017, 04:54:40 pm

Chestnut oak any good for bows?

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: Pat B 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.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: bushboy 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.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: DuBois 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.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: Pat B 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.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: Jim Davis on May 10, 2017, 09:12:41 pm

Chestnut oak

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: rps3 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.

Title: Re: This is Hickory, right?
Post by: H Rhodes 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.