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JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: Aaron1726 on December 20, 2025, 10:36:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Piddler on December 20, 2025, 08:21:07 pm ---Like those. I have some bones in the freezer that is on my list to do. Any tips would be appreciated.
Piddler

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Thanks.  I can tell you my process.  I toss the bones in a pot of water and add some dishwasher soap and then boil them for about 5 min or so.  I tried dish soap before and it worked, but once it comes to a boil its a bubbly mess.  Then I pull the bones out and let them cool just until I can pick them up.  I use a spoon to scrape the remnants of meat and such off, which should come off really easy if they boiled right.  You don't have to get them clean all the way out to the tips, that part will next get cut off.  So then I cut the ends off to where it looks right.  Then you have to clean all the stuff out of the inside of the bones, this part is a mess and the best way I've found is a coat hanger wire and keeps working it through, rinse and repeat.  Then fit them together with some sanding, and then I hot glue the pieces together, or use pitch glue, that works too.  Then these I wrapped the joints over with artificial sinew. 

Good luck on yours, let us know how they turn out.

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Pretty much the same here, replacing the wire coat hanger with a pipe cleaner, and cutting the ends off FIRST so tht the soapy water can clean from the inside out, too. The marrow in the bones has a lot of fat and will yellow the bones.

Aaron1726:
Yeah it is fatty.  Don't know why I never thought to cut the ends first, but makes sense, ill have to try that next time.  Thanks

Piddler:
Thanks fellas. Gonna have to give it a try.
Piddler

Pappy:
That is very cool, I also make them and do about the same as JW, I have a die hard buddy that hunts them , I made him one and he said he only uses it on birds that won't respond to anything else and is amazed on how it will usually bring them in when nothing else will. :) Pappy

mullet:
You beat me to it, Pappy. I was going to say that the birds that seem to come to a wing bone or Trumpet calls are the ones that have heard all the other calls.

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