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What to do with some elk hooves?
Mesophilic:
Was planning on a quiver with the hide. Judging by how much I was able to get fleshed and trimmed I'll have plenty for two quivers and a couple of knife sheaths.
...well at least I think I fleshed it. Never worked with anything bigger than coyotes and they weren't shot a half dozen time with a muzzle loader and massacered during skinning.
BowEd:
Sounds good.That's always nice...A massacered slitted up hide.It was free anyway right?
DC:
How long did you have to boil the feet to get the hooves off? I tried it once and had no luck at all.
Mesophilic:
--- Quote from: BowEd on October 10, 2018, 05:52:52 pm ---Sounds good.That's always nice...A massacered slitted up hide.It was free anyway right?
--- End quote ---
Free it was. Couldn't argue with the price..
Went over to pick up the brain this afternoon and my friend gave me both of the ivories as well. Will give me some meat later on after it hangs a little bit and is butchered. Not bad at all for helping to carry this elk off the side of a mointain in a sleet storm. But the joke is on him as I would have done it just for the hide and the sinews I was able to collect.
Hawkdancer:
You could probably sew up the bullet holes with sinew before working the hide. How bad the cuts are will determine whether you split the hide to tan it. Holes and splits get bigger as you stretch the hide. It is probably easier to work smaller pieces, maybe deer size. Ed can give better advice on that.
Hawkdancer
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