Archery Talk

Lol more than you or I or a large crowd could ever put a dent in

and wood, I’d be happy to save you some. Send me a PM on details for both

 

Wow found this…
Strength. Osage orange is exceptionally hard and strong. The bending strength (MOR) is over 20,000 psi (50 percent more than red oak). Hardness is around 2000 pounds (100 percent more than red oak). Stiffness (MOE) averages 1.8 million psi (roughly equal to red oak). The high density means excellent nail and screw holding as well. Pre-drilling of holes for fasteners will often be necessary to avoid splitting.
I knew it was tough but had never seen actual numbers. I know a nail will pretty much bend or bounce of when you try to nail something to it.

 

Yea that wood is some wild stuff.

 

bois’d’arc aka Osage Orange. Lotta bowyers use it. Great material for self bows with fantastic charater!! Looks like there is some poison ivy vines on that one on the right.

 

Tons of it lol

Thankfully I’m not allergic to that.. but I did get fully assaulted by chiggers

 

Im allergic to poison ivy, and chiggers arent any fun! I think i got a couple bites the other day but not in a bunch of them thankfully

 

My ankles were the worst but I’ve got them head to toe

 

Looks like you got in to some seed ticks.

 

My one stand, actually my best one, is in a gnarly skinny oak tree, about 8-10" in diameter. I think it was 2011 when I first hung a stand in that tree. It had several vines like the one in your pic. Never had a problem with poison. Maybe a tiny blister and itching for a day or so. Well, I'm hanging sticks wrapping my arms around the tree, cutting the shit down, etc...Next day it looked like someone whipped my arms. The itching was so bad and it burned. Taking a shower was the worse. For two weeks it went on. Gonna hang another stand, grab my long sleeve canvas shirt I wore on the last rodeo (yes it was washed), and proceeded to get poison all over again.

Now, I take disposable rubber gloves, anything gets washed mutliple times in hot hot ****ing hot water.

 

Get yourself some technu, apply it like a lotion to every part of your skin that might come in contact with PI before you start working, once you’re done take a COLD shower and use the technu as soap.

can’t stress it enough, cold water after exposure. Warm water opens pores and allows the oils in. Cold water is fine to rinse the oils off your skin

technu is magic shit for poison ivy.

 

Back in August 2011 on was hanging stands on one of our Brown County farms and got destroyed by chiggers a hot shower relived the discomfort

 

Never heard of those but maybe??

 

Seed ticks are baby ticks just out of they’re nymph stage. They are tan in color and very small whereas chiggers are bright red. I’ve gotten into them on several occasions and usually hundreds of them.

 

Exactly what Dave said, I get poison Oak really bad and also use Technu, it's a game changer. He explains it perfectly.

 

temporarily...

 

Headed to Montana this fall for a hunt with a general archery tag. Any recommendations?

 

Kill a big one

 

What does that allow you to kill?

 

A bull or cow in general areas.