VA Osage - Updated *Pics* + Stumpshoot

Osagetree · July 08, 2007, 09:04:00 AM

Good story and pics! Cute kids!

Noth'n in the world better than osage, arrows, friends and family! Unless your hungry,,, then food comes to mind!

Eric Krewson · July 08, 2007, 09:19:00 AM

Whew, that is some rough looking osage. Save yourself some grief and go for billets on the stuff with limbs. Not much bow wood in a trunk with large limbs sticking out of it.

Ed Frye · July 08, 2007, 10:56:00 AM

was wore out myself by the time we got home and telling momma and the other two about our great day. will post some pic and tell a story later as i am still learning the photobooth site. It was a great day for myself and my boy's. No sooner had we left and both of them went to sleep to leave ole dad to do all the driving.LOL You got it right Chuck it is Sean. More to follow.

Ed Frye · July 08, 2007, 10:57:00 AM

was wore out myself by the time we got home and telling momma and the other two about our great day. will post some pic and tell a story later as i am still learning the photobooth site. It was a great day for myself and my boy's. No sooner had we left and both of them went to sleep to leave ole dad to do all the driving.LOL You got it right Chuck it is Sean. More to follow.

Ed Frye · July 08, 2007, 10:59:00 AM

Opps! How did that happen?

Killdeer · July 08, 2007, 03:20:00 PM

Keyboard hiccupped.

So what did Caleb and Emma do while everybody else went shooting? That is some gnarly looking osage, any idea how long it took to get that big and tangled?

Killdeer

Forester · July 08, 2007, 11:06:00 PM

Well alright! It's good to see that you hosted another adventure Talondale. I really wanted in on this one, almost as much as the squirrel hunt/STAR shoot. Either I'm going to quit leaving town or you'll have to start planning these things more in advance.....

Glad to see you had a good time. Good luck with the yella wood and thanks for the pics. Keep the kids shooting straight!

Talondale · July 09, 2007, 10:33:00 PM

The first stump we shot at I glanced my arrow of the edge and promptly lost it in the under brush. We decided to concentrate on dirt clumps rather than my hard stumps. We found lots of turkey sign. Sean used a feather we found to swat the gnats that kept getting in our eyes.

Talondale · July 09, 2007, 10:36:00 PM

My friend Steve is a stranger to trad bows, having given up his compound for a x-bow, but he took to the Bear target bow like a fish to water. He was definitely competitive.

Talondale · July 09, 2007, 10:38:00 PM

But the man of the hour was definitely Ed.

Here he is with his beer can hero pic. He had a magnet in the end of his arrow.

Talondale · July 09, 2007, 10:40:00 PM

Too soon it was time for goodbyes. Thanks for a good time and all the help.

deerslayer32 · July 09, 2007, 11:32:00 PM

Hey I think you got some great experience cutting Osage and you're gonna have even more fun splitting it. I would split it in halves first, paint the ends w/ shellac IMMEDIATELY and let them sit for a year or two before splitting them any further. IF you take the wood down to stave size now it will twist as it dries, thus becoming worthless. Also up here in MO I like to cut the trees in Jan or Feb when the sap is down. It cracks more when it dries if there is more sap in it. If you see the bark twisting at all as it goes up the trunk, it won't split straight and is worthbless. You may want to get the Boyers Bible Vol. 1. Hey, it looks like a lot of fun with your family though, and that's the most important thing anyway. good luck.

paleFace · July 10, 2007, 08:38:00 AM

well the split'n has commenced!

Chuck, Ed must have said 100 times last night how generous you were. however by the time we finished up he was saying some other choice words about ya! :mad:

just kidding of course.

i must have slept wrong last night my back is sore this morning. "[dntthnk]"

OzarkRamblr · July 10, 2007, 08:49:00 AM

Love the looks of that yellar wood...Looks like a good time was had by all as well.