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JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on December 15, 2017, 11:52:23 pm --- Btw, where in the Black Hills are you?
Hawkdancer

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I am in Rapid City. Except for the week of May 14-20th, 2018. Then I will be in a tent in the woods west of the Crazy Horse Monument being humiliated by one "stupid" turkey after another. You coming?  I feed folks pretty well and there is always birds to be worked up!


--- Quote from: BowEd on December 16, 2017, 09:17:29 am ---JW....The hair removal itself is'nt hard at all,and as a general rule with the grain is best.Main thing too is that your hide is good and dry.Fleshing it first of course.It's the epidermis that the hair roots are in that needs to be removed too for good brain oil penetration to happen and a nice soft product afterward.Like a flannel shirt really.From all the people I've taught brain tanning it's the biggest factor for stiff hides.A very sharp scraper does the job well.Helps very much in the thinner areas too.If too thin in the flanks etc. using 80 grit sand paper will do the job there too.You'll get a feel for the whole process as time goes on.Check this out....
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,56929.0.html
There are many new school type ways to get these steps done.This is old school.I guess if you want really older school you can use flint & bone scrapers too but the end result will still be the same.

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We had her good and dry.  I didn't get enough thongs stretching it every which way, so there were a few areas without good tension, but we got it done.  We'll cut it off the frame next and I will use the random orbital sander to lightly go over all of it just to make sure grain on both sides is interrupted where the braintan solution can get in there nice and deep.  I popped on hole/tear in it, but it is very close to the edge and I will just use that tear as the guide for cutting it out.

I am always amazed at how dang fluffy good braintan becomes compared to the rawhide that it comes from.

BowEd:
I am always amazed at how dang fluffy good braintan becomes compared to the rawhide that it comes from.
Yes I never get tired of it's texture and feel.

Hawkdancer:
That might be doable!  19&20 May are the snow dates for our Buckhorn Skinners  "Squirrel Shoot" Championships, but usually we get it done in April.  Spring season opens on 14th?  How much are non-resident tags?  We could be on the road a lot next year, I'd like to make it to Marshall, as well, and we are supposed to go to a " Camp Jam" in the Laguna Mtns. Of California in Jne

JW_Halverson:
Spring turkey season is at least 6 weeks long. I always set the camp dates for the last week of season to take advantage of the best chance for warmer weather and for the hens to be off setting eggs so that the poor gobblers are more likely to be enticed. 

Nonresident tags have been $100 in the past, but I think they may take a small increase this year. I am waiting for the regulations to be released for the coming year.

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