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Title: POC-Arrows??
Post by: 3Feathers on December 12, 2010, 10:11:00 AM

What are POC arrows.What does POC stand for??

Title: Re: POC-Arrows??
Post by: smokin joe on December 12, 2010, 10:13:00 AM

It's just a short way of saying Port Orford Cedar. POC is the wood that wood arrows are most commonly made of.
Joe

Title: Re: POC-Arrows??
Post by: PrarrieDog on December 12, 2010, 10:13:00 AM

Port Orford Cedar shortened to POC.
Harvested at Port Orford, Oregeon.
That's my story and until I have more coffee, I'm sticking to it.  :coffee:

Title: Re: POC-Arrows??
Post by: 3Feathers on December 12, 2010, 10:30:00 AM

Thanks for the info kinda new to the tradworld
always learning something new and this is the place for a top of the line education............

Title: Re: POC-Arrows??
Post by: Grey Taylor on December 12, 2010, 11:17:00 AM

Port Orford Cedar is the name of the tree but it is not necessarily harvested in Port Orford, Oregon:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaecyparis_lawsoniana  
Similarly, Sitka Spruce is the name of a tree but it is not necessarily harvested in Sitka, Alaska:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_sitchensis

Guy

Title: Re: POC-Arrows??
Post by: snag on December 12, 2010, 11:20:00 AM

Port Orford cedar used to range up and down the s.w. part of Oregon and into n.w. California. There is less than 200 acres of marketable POC left on national forest lands in Oregon.

Title: Re: POC-Arrows??
Post by: Pat B on December 12, 2010, 12:30:00 PM

If I am not nistaken it also occurs in a limited area in Japan. There are a few other plant specie that are found in both locations. Our native cane, Arundaneria is very similar to a cane in Japan but I'm not sure which one.