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JW_Halverson:
Today I revisited an area that had been mechanically thinned a decade ago. I had been hunting deer here and saw a lot of scuffing and scraping to tree trunks, weeping sap. I filed the spot away in memory with intent to come and harvest the hardened resin some day. Today was that day!

The resin is hard and brittle, fully cured. I was careful to eliminate as much bark as I could, but still has a little. The total weight of today's harvest is 14.6 ounces, almost a pound. It fills a quart freezer bag up.

Since most people add beeswax along with a filler like rabbit turds, I will include a few ounces of beeswax from my hives to sweeten the pot. Get your own rabbit turds.

I am open to a lot of stuff in trade, mostly just collecting the resin for folks that just don't have access to the raw materials I see all the time in abundance. Make an offer!

Pat B:
John, I'd be interested but I was planning to offer some good smelling bees wax.  >:D
 I really would be interested in some of that pitch. Looks like some good stuff. Tell me what you are in need of.

JW_Halverson:
Got any 5/16th field points?  I seem to not be able to find those I thought I had.

Hawkdancer:
John,
Those points are hiding in your plunder. Similar to my vintage broad heads and Estwing hatchet!  Still got some of the pitch I gathered at Turkey '18.  Will check my arrowmaking box, I just unloaded it today so it's in the shop!  Somewhere!
Hawkdancer

Pat B:
Got a lot of 11/32" but no 5/16"

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