Opinions please

[tcrooks]

Nice touch leaving the bone in the photo. LOL

[bootheeltrapper26]

I noticed it to just didn't say anything..... Ppl that didn't know any better would prolly stare at it for hours and wonder what it is... Lol

[ozarkmountainman]

Wow. Cool!

Dale

[krank]

Good stuff......I have posted stuff before and got ripped by others and welcomed the criticism. Otherwise, I still would be doing it. It always fascinates me what buyers like and don't like. Shroeder at Nafa just whacks the ears off his coon.....No biggie. I take coon and wash them in soap and water and pull out scads of blood and mud and grease and this ding me as damaged (I did a good job of drying fur and combing before I board it up) Go figger.....Then I got a tail with slippage at the tip and I rip the tail off rather than get dinged for slippage and that was OK....It just drives me nuts.
By the way, my front coon legs are at least 1 1/2" long when I board. The whole front leg is trouble (3"?) and no front leg leaves those big holes.

[bigjohn]

The trouble with washing furs with soap is taking the oil out of the fur.This causes a loss of luster.Better just to rinse them out in cool water.It will get out enough of the blood and dirt without adding anything else.

[krank]

I aint washing no more. That ticked me off. It must have been the loss of luster. Heck with the bloody head (Maybe a cold water rinse on bad ones) and degrease by scraping. It was high maintenance and a lot of trouble to dry them and then board before too late.

[trapper7911]

I hadn't even noticed it. I pull those out and skin down to the nice gleaming white bone. Then I let them dry and throw them in a box for trading at the big buckskinner rendezvous and primitive shoot. Last year I traded a shoebox full for a set of tomahawks I liked.

[login]

I dont get it, yall say you will cover your pelt with borax (which is a detergent booster) to clean blood, dirt and what not out of the fur, but you wont wash your fur in a bucket full of soapy water (Dawn) because it damages the fur. That dont make sense to me.

I will keep on doing what I do, and what I do is what I do.

[ozarkmountainman]

I'd throw them in the washing machine if it was me & they was nasty enough. Whole. On the carcass. Then sit back and enjoy the sound. If it was me.

Dale

[bverboy]

dale would you use cascade so theres no water spots??

[bigjohn]

Nov 16, 2013 10:27:08 GMT -6 bverboy said:

dale would you use cascade so theres no water spots??

BaHaaaaaaaaaa.

[bootheeltrapper26]

Lmao, this is getting good!!!!