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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 23, 2025, 06:58:06 pm »Plan on euro mounting the heads, they are ready for the boil. 
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 23, 2025, 06:56:34 pm »Beau brought Margaret Ann and Bodhi with him, they had a great time at the creek and around the fire, Margaret Ann is still a little shy around dogs but she is coming around and they are beginning to really build a love for the farm. Then on to the cat and dog, I was working on the heads and other stuff and Shawn was skinning the cat, the guy that gave it to me field dressed it 
so couldn't tub it, guess I will make a rug or something.
Pappy
Then on to the cat and dog, I was working on the heads and other stuff and Shawn was skinning the cat, the guy that gave it to me field dressed it so couldn't tub it, guess I will make a rug or something. Pappy
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 23, 2025, 06:51:29 pm »Got about 34 lbs of burger and 22 lbs of steak and back strap for me and Beau , also 4 shoulders. Shawn's deer had some issues but we work through it and got a pretty good pile on meat for him also.
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Arrows / Re: flight bow and arrows
« Last post by bassman211 on November 23, 2025, 06:49:49 pm »Today I got my rangefinder working again ,and went back to were we shot flight arrows yesterday. Our best arrow shot 180 yds. Not very good at stepping off distance. Back to the drawing board.
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 23, 2025, 06:48:03 pm »You and yours also Steve 
Had a good weekend, got caught up on all the deer processing for now, done a doe for me and Beau's last buck, Shawn showed up and Saturday we did his also. My little freezer where I keep my brain's and a few dead critters was getting full so Friday morning I laid out a bob cat and coyote head and a few other choice items the bob cat came from a friend in the club killed last year and the Coy. head was one DaveO[otis] killed I think. I let them thaw and after I got the deer processed I went to work on them. I wished I had done a video of Annie's reaction to the cat and coy dog head, she would sniff and I could stomp my feet and she would take off like a rocket, I got a good laugh out of her.
Pappy
Had a good weekend, got caught up on all the deer processing for now, done a doe for me and Beau's last buck, Shawn showed up and Saturday we did his also. My little freezer where I keep my brain's and a few dead critters was getting full so Friday morning I laid out a bob cat and coyote head and a few other choice items the bob cat came from a friend in the club killed last year and the Coy. head was one DaveO[otis] killed I think. I let them thaw and after I got the deer processed I went to work on them. I wished I had done a video of Annie's reaction to the cat and coy dog head, she would sniff and I could stomp my feet and she would take off like a rocket, I got a good laugh out of her. Pappy
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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by bassman211 on November 23, 2025, 05:42:07 pm »The times that I used heat with a heat gun on Osage... to get the wood straight on a form lining up the tips with the handle, and belly heating with a heat gun to help hold its shape. You can fire harden elm,hickory, and even white oak, and some other woods with good results, but Osage being the bow wood that it is , and being hard to get your hands on a good stave really doesn't need to be fire hardened.JMO
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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by Chumash on November 23, 2025, 11:02:25 am »Hardening wood with fire to make it more durable is a very old technique. It was used to harden the ends of grave sticks and the tips of the first spears.
Heat changes the cell structure (caramelization, carbonization) and reduces the equilibrium moisture content.
The wood becomes harder and more durable (less susceptible to microorganisms and fungi).
For example, so-called thermo spruce used as exterior cladding for houses lasts just as long as larch wood.
Heat treatment—whether with a heat gun or over an open fire—has a lot of potential for bow wood.
But be careful, because although the wood becomes harder and more durable, it also becomes more brittle. Too much heat or heat for too long is not good for any wood.
Heat changes the cell structure (caramelization, carbonization) and reduces the equilibrium moisture content.
The wood becomes harder and more durable (less susceptible to microorganisms and fungi).
For example, so-called thermo spruce used as exterior cladding for houses lasts just as long as larch wood.
Heat treatment—whether with a heat gun or over an open fire—has a lot of potential for bow wood.
But be careful, because although the wood becomes harder and more durable, it also becomes more brittle. Too much heat or heat for too long is not good for any wood.
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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by Burnsie on November 23, 2025, 10:41:27 am »I heat treat all of my osage bows but never tried to fire harden one.Eric - is your heat treating to make corrections or add deflex, recurves...etc. - or just done to the full length of the bow after it has been tillered and basically finished?
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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by Eric Krewson on November 23, 2025, 09:41:43 am »I heat treat all of my osage bows but never tried to fire harden one.
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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by Del the cat on November 23, 2025, 06:06:45 am »Heat treating the belly can certainly increase the performance of Osage.
But I don't know about "fire hardening" vs heat treating.
Del
But I don't know about "fire hardening" vs heat treating.
Del