What about Black Locust for a self bow? Does it work good? I have access to tons of the stuff, there is a large stand of it on one of the places I hunt.

What do you do about cutting and curing it? Anyone got a good link to something on that?

And what about Osage? Is that the same thing as Bois de Arc, or to us country folk, Bodark? That makes the big wrinkly "apples" that bleed white milk? I have heard if you cut a tree down and let the shoots grow up, they grow nice and straight and amke a good bow. Is this true or is it bunk? We have lots of that stuff around here also. I can probably find one in a shelterbelt that has already been cut and has shoots.

Once again, how do you dry it properly without splitting?