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High-Desert:
So many possibilities with all those skins. Every time I get a furry creature, they wife wants it for decoration. I try to make my critters into something. I bark tanned my elk hide and made a quiver, and ugly one, but a quiver none the less. The beaver pelt is trim on the top. The Muskrats pelts are fur silencers. Deer hide is going to be my wife's quiver. I can't get out an trap
Enough to get enough hides for all the projects I have planned.
What do you all do with your hides?

Eric

osage outlaw:
This is my only tanning experience.  A fawn hide and 2 chipmunks.  I was happy with how they turned out.  I've got a bobcat and my first selfbow deer hide in the freezer.  I want to tan them this winter. 

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--- Quote from: High-Desert on November 11, 2016, 11:33:50 am ---So many possibilities with all those skins. Every time I get a furry creature, they wife wants it for decoration. I try to make my critters into something. I bark tanned my elk hide and made a quiver, and ugly one, but a quiver none the less. The beaver pelt is trim on the top. The Muskrats pelts are fur silencers. Deer hide is going to be my wife's quiver. I can't get out an trap
Enough to get enough hides for all the projects I have planned.
What do you all do with your hides?

Eric
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I like to scare kids and adults with them when there at my house😆 Trade them and make stuff too
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selfbow joe:
I haven't tanned anything yet.but going to this winter. I do trap a little bit and have a big coon hide and some deer hides in the freezer so far . with fur prices are very low I thought I could try to make some things this year.

Chief RID:
I fleshed out a grey fox many years ago. I tacked it to a board and put 20 mule team borax on it to dry it out and keep the bugs away. I shot it in 2005 and it still looks good. I will post a pic today, if I remember. I don't know what you call that but that is what I did to it.

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