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Moccasins?
Scowler:
I don't make moccisans but I do wear them when I shoot (weather permitting). I got mine from Arrow Moccisans. I far as I know there is no way to waterproof moccisans. I do apply Montana Pitch Blend on them periodically to keep the leather is shape.
stickbender:
Dang Eddie, those are some nice looking hunting Mocs! She does good work. How do they fit? Did she measure you, or did they just happen to fit. How did you meet her? Is there a Cree settlement around the job site, or Motel? Did you get a nice pair for Cathy also? Might be a good idea...... ;) You know, explain why you went back a second time and all...... ;D But seriously, those Moccasins look sharp, and very well made. The hunting pair look like Apache Mocs. , and the pair on the right, look like Sioux style. Or one of those western Tribes. Anyway, glad you got to get out and do a little more than wade through snow, to find a place to dig. Get any Moose lips yet? :)
Wayne
mullet:
Wayne, the small ones in the first picture, uh, with the pretty flower?, they would be for the wife. Most of the population here is Cree or Inuit. I found a shop that sells NA art. the owners are Cree and they sell the stuff for the artisans. They have some cool birch bark, teeth-biting art, but I'd be broke if I bought everything I wanted.
huntertrapper:
nice mocs. hell id wear the flowered mocs in the woods...if its for hunting whose gonna care? NOT ME ;D ;D ;D
stickbender:
Ahhh, good for you, I am sure She will like them. Yeah, I know what you mean about buying all the stuff you want to buy, so you will just have to charge the Canadians more, ;D Well as for waterproofing the mocs how about the " Sealskin" socks, that are water proof? Put them on and then put the moccasins on. At least your feet will be dry. But I don't how the moccasins will feel when they are wet, even with dry socks. any who, have fun up there, and do more research on their beer, and food. ;) And try the moose lips before you leave. I saw Andrew Zimern on the bizare food show in Alaska in a meat processing shop, and they had some moose lips. I think they made head cheese with it. I don't know if they have it in Canada, or in the section where you are at, but with the large Cree, and Inuit population there you should be able to get some. Are you near the coast, or actually just where in the heck are you up there anyway. If you are near the coast, maybe you can get some seal, or whale. I was reading about a Teacher who went up there for a year to teach school in an Inuit or Eskimo village, and she said she told one of the ladies there that she would like to try some whale blubber, just to say that she had tried it. So they brought her a slab of it, and she asked if there was any special way to prepare it, and the lady told her, she just mixes it with "Hamburger Helper". :D Find any rock, or soap stone up there ? Any Fossils? Ivory? Artifacts? June bugs? ;D
Wayne
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