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The beauty of Osage Orange (hedge) is it's the perfect bow wood. Its tensile strength when put under stress is incredible. Many bow wood needs to be backed with snakeskin leather or some kind of laminate so they don't split at the fibers Osage is unique this way. The Native Americans had big ass wars with other Indian tribes traveling to steal the osage orange in its growing areas in the midwest. The French explorers called it Bois de arc which translates to the wood of the bow. They considered it superior to Yew that was common to European longbows.
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