Help with tree ID...

[Flyboy718]

What kinda tree is this?  I live in northern louisiana.

[Shaun]

oak of some variety

[aric]

looks like red oak to me

[TroutGuide]

Looks like black walnut but I need to see more of the tree and the limb does not look quite right so I guess Im no help realy.  I dont think it is red oak.

[okie64]

Hard to say. Red oaks usually have darker bark than that. Wait till the leaves pop out and it will be easy to tell.

[red hill]

I vote for walnut, also. The bark is deeply furrowed like walnut.
Stan

[Balding Kansan]

I'll put my .02 on elm.

[TroutGuide]

The flowers and limb do look like elm and while the trunk bark looks a little rougher than I would expect I think I will change my vote to elm.

[Flyboy718]

I was thinking american elm...?

[okie64]

Are you gonna cut it for bow wood? Looks like a really big tree.

[Flyboy718]

Just a few limbs that look good.

[Pat B]

Find something you know for sure will make a bow before you put too much work into cutting the wood. No since in cutting on a tree if the wood isn't appropriate for bows.

[Flyboy718]

Pat this one is coming down with a track hoe and will be pushed into a pit and burned, I have a favor called in to get a few 10" or so diameter limbs sawn to 8' length.  No labor on my end except loading in my truck.

[don s]

i think a type of elm also. maybe winged elm.
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[Pat B]

The branch doesn't have the corky wings that winged elm has.

[JamesKerr]

that looks like it might be elm of some sort

[Flyboy718]

Yeah...was thinkin american elm.