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Oct 20, 2011 23:06:50 GMT -5
Post by whitedove on Oct 20, 2011 23:06:50 GMT -5
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Oct 22, 2011 11:20:09 GMT -5
Post by taosdjango on Oct 22, 2011 11:20:09 GMT -5
boy that nephew is good with a bow? or at least it should be a bow your muzzleloading season starts today oct 22.
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Oct 23, 2011 2:15:49 GMT -5
Post by taosdjango on Oct 23, 2011 2:15:49 GMT -5
this forum is starting to get really bad now
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Oct 23, 2011 6:46:28 GMT -5
Post by paulette on Oct 23, 2011 6:46:28 GMT -5
On the positive side, nice accomplishment to get a great buck like a 7,8, 10 pointer! Be nice if he realized just how easy it is to make leather. Especially with the heavier skins.. Those babies don't need any soaking at all to scrape the hair and grain layers off of. Sometimes best not too as the water will make an already heavy skin heavier yet. Tools can easily be fashioned from old lawn mower blades and the like, long as they're not sharp enough of an edge to cut your finger, the steel to scrape a hide doesn't need to be all fancy or anything, it just has to have an abrupt DULL edge, so as to not cut down into (gouge) the skin. It comes off with fairly little effort on a freshly removed skin like that. You could do it yourself WD.. with a narrow pole sitting down.. can get a bit messy but very little effort on a freshly killed and removed skin.. Even the heavier thicker skins sometimes seems easiest yet to grain as their epidermal layer is already thicker to start with.. You ever hear of washing soda, White Dove? Comes in the supermarkets.. (some of them) in the section where boxes of stuff like Borax are.. well the one called washing soda is great.. only need a cup of it or so if you DO want to soak or if you don't get the whole skin cleanly grained off.. One can soak a skin in that stuff for several days if they REALLY gotta.. and chances are they don't BUT.. the washing soda will prevent the skins from that horrible rot that'd turn ANYONE off of tanning any thing.. lol.. no BS! anyway kind of a shame for folks to NOT realize how easy it is to soften skins. Smoking them to complete the tannage isn't any big deal either, providing you don't use HEAT in the smoke as that is what can really irreversibly damage skins.. so I hope you encouraged the young man to tan it's skin. and simple salting and allowing the skins to drain off can preserve them for some time if you need it. Well anyway just thought I'd throw that info out there.
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Oct 25, 2011 10:08:38 GMT -5
Post by paulette on Oct 25, 2011 10:08:38 GMT -5
You're welcome WD! I hope to encourage DIY tanning! Most folks that hunt seem to wish to but don't for whatever odd reasons. Would like to convey that it's really not ALL THAT DIFFICULT! Everything is a job, lol. I would like to know what is the biggest reason most folks don't tan their own hides.
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