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Main Discussion Area => Cave Men only "Oooga Booga" => Topic started by: Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive on February 25, 2008, 10:03:00 pm
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i finnished up tanning a road killed bobcat, i was driving at work and saw it on the side of the road and very fresh. no sense in letting it go to waiste. i used eggs because the brains were still on the road. unfortunatly the head far far too unusable and it tore some holes in the legs. but here it is, just figured i would share it fr whats its worth. also it turned out very soft and supple for the majority, the legs are just a bit papery but not bad at all.- Ryan
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Nice looking pelt you got there.
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good lookin tan and nice cat. you guys got a good pop. of cats down there?
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Man, nice tan job dude! I need to learn how to do that :).
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nice save
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what a beautiful quiver that would make. i'm glad you took it. it always tears me up when i see animals wasted along the road. in germany it's considered pouching, if you pick it up (what a stupid law) so we have to let it go to waste and i hate that. >:(
PS: do you think we could talk you into a "tan-allong" the next time you find something like that?
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very nice, as stated above that would make a nice quiver.
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Looks like you did a great job on it.
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Nice, here in Michigan you would be a criminal for picking up roadkill like that especially bobcat :o
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Man, that's crazy (the roadkill laws) what a waste. Here it's thou shalt not take any part of a roadkilt deer :D, anything else is fair game - oh except for all the hawks with purty feathers laying everywhere >:( >:(.
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Oh yeah - I second the motion that you should do a tan along Ryan :). Would be very useful to us that haven't seen or read about it..
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I third the tan along I have something in my freezer that needs tanning, can't say what :-X :-X :-X
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Very nice! I'm jealous.
Roadkill is mostly off limits to us in Texas. I've talked to fish & game and we might be able to get away with possession of SOME fur-bearing animals if we have a hunting or trappers license.....during the right season.....and if the animal is not on the rabies watch list.
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Very nice tan job. Would make a great quiver.
Here you cannot pick up any game animal parts unless you have a license for that species. I picked up a bobcat back when the prices were high and got $500 for a road kill. :-* Justin
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Hey Patrick: The way I understand it in TX is anything but deer is OK as long as your taking it for your own use and not selling it. Read that in the book but haven't talked to any wardens. I pick up anything I want as long as it's fresh :).
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I pick up anything I want as long as it's fresh :).
That could be construed in the wrong manner Paul >:D
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;D ;D
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hey thanks alot all, i didnt expect to get much feedback from this...lol to be honest i dont know what the roadkill laws are here. bobcats were and still are in season here and i posses the needed liscensing to harvest one so i figured all is good to pick up roadkil, and to be honest it aint illegal unless you get caught. i try and follow al the rules but there is no sense in letting a beautiful animal go to waiste, but who knows it may have been legal, i have been picking up roadkill since i was 16 ...lol i never got stopped. foxes and bears and the panthers are the only major things off limits but the law had stated that you could be in possesion of roadkilled foxes if you have a taxidermy liscense which we do. but im sure they would love to rough me all up over that, so i havent picked ne up in years, but i will if i see a red fox. they are about as rare as bobcats down here.
huntertrapper- our population around here is decent for sub urban living. obviously ihavent seen any in town but i have seen 3 this year since jan 1st, one was the one i picked up and the other 2 were alive, but i think they may be breeding now. i dont hardly ever see them except for dec, jan, & feb. perhaps that is the reason for the increase in sightings
as far as a tan-along whenever i am ready to do another i'll keep you al informed in the process, i have a bobcat from last year stilll in the freezer so maybe i'll do that one or perhaps a coon. it usually takes me the better part of a week to tan one. from skin to tan but i dont like to get burnt out on it either. i really want a beaver, otter, 2 or 3 muskrats or a nutria to tan so i can have some fur silencers. but we dont have them down here except for otter and they are outa season come friday and i havent seen one on the road in a looooong time
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I just grabbed three beavers about two weeks ago. One was worth skinning the other two I just took the tails. Now if I only knew how to tan that hide ;D.
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Cowboy....I've known folks here who pick up roadkill (including deer antlers) with no problems. As for me, I won't take that chance.....seems there's a magic beacon on my head - whenever I stop on a shoulder all the law enforcement in the area converge on me. Last time it took less than a minute...I was just trying to unfold a map and get my bearings! >:(
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Jack I'm sure they just wanted to help a citizen out. ;D
Michigan you can pick up road kill if its season and have the appropriate license.
Bobcat would have to be checked in at the DNR office and they will seal the pelt, of course you run the
chance of being accused of killing it then :o
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Dana, I'm sure you're right. ;)
Texas is funny, though......you can't buy wild turkey feathers on the internet but you can shoot a mountain lion on sight, any time of day, year round!
Presently Texas regulations allow for the management of lion populations and lions may be controlled year-round. - Texas Parks and Wildlife
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hey jackcrafty, send me one of those lion hides and i'll do the tan-along ;) ;D
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I hear ya Pat. I have this phobia about taking a whizz on the side of the road (even when it's late and thiers silence) seems like some kind of officer will materialize out of thin air (everytime). Learned that in my early twenties ;D.
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Twistedlimbs....I'll keep it in mind.... >:D
Maybe Cowboy will act as bait.....he'll attract the mountain lion when taking a wizz by the side of the road and I'll run it over! Then we can all take pictures (standing on the lion) with the state trooper who was hiding in the bushes!
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Hahahaha ;D ;D. Sounds like a plan Hehheh....
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twisted limbs. i have muskrat its not fleshed but its salted. ??? if that would mess ya up? it has a few holes because a beaver attacked it while it was in our trap. but if you are gonna make it into silencers it should be okay. if you wanna do a trade just get back to me.
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I pick up bobcats and especially river otters all the time. A few years ago I got 3 deer in two weeks. I saw them all get hit. And thats not counting the gobbler I got with the Jeep last year. When it comes to deer and road kill, Florida has 1-800-road-kil.
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yeah when its cold here and theres a deer layin we get the thing. or coons or fox or yotes in trappin season.
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I've been trying to get a yote for years. Whenever I see one ,no gun. Or the ones on the road are too ripe. I tried to run one down at work the other day, had the little suckers tongue hanging and had to lock the brakes up when I came to a pipeline crossing, ;Djust missed him.
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you tried to hit him on prupose? ??? :( :) and they are agile smart and i could go on for awhile using adj. to describe them dang things. ;D
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I had him between a dike and the dirt road I was on. I was running beside him about 35 mph with him in front of the drivers door. I was just waiting for him to try to cut across in front of me. When I got to the pipe that's when he did it. Watched him crash into the pipe go down in the ditch and lay down on the other side exhausted. I was just keeping him honest ;)
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:D
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Eddie, We find them in the open and chase them down on 4 wheelers or horses. It takes a couple of horses to wear one down. Then you jump off and finish the job. Justin
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I'd of got him if I was in the Jeep instead of the company F-250. >:D
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I think a tan along would be great too ;D
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A couple of years back here in Washington State, a guy got a big ticket (cruelty to animals) from the humane society because he swerved to run over a possum... ??? The episode was a big deal in the newspapers for a couple of days. I don't have any problem with running over possums - I think the society should have done the same thing my parents did. If you kill it, you've got to eat it...
Keith
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Key words, Washington State. The land of granola munching tree huggers. I don't know how sane people survive up there. Justin
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i'd never heard of egg tanning, can anyone show me some more information about it?
as for road kill here in tennessee, I heard that you can pick up dead deer for eating now.
I also picked up a full body rolled out (tube?) coyote on ebay for 30 bucks, beautiful creature, it's huge.
I love roadkill, almost got a fox one morning but I was on my mowing route and after I got done it was gone.
I have a zitkala ceta that i picked up off the side of the interstate, head was smushed, salted it.
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just a little further down on the page i did a tan-a-long on a muskrat. the proces is the same, i used eggs aswell. its call - requested tan-along
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Beautiful work Ryan.
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Hello Humaza, I'm not also familiar with egg tanning. However, I have read some information on different sites that tanning hides with eggs are a good substitute for brains. The hair of deer has a hollow shaft which causes it to break easily. Depending upon what you have in mind to use this hide for, may or may not be okay with you.
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Humaza;
What the heck is a Zitkala Ceta? :o ???
Wayne
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Sounds like one of them fruity mexican cocktails they serve you with a flower in it. ' Frank
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Nice hide ! (Thats a good save). ' Frank
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whats this about buying turkey feathers and living in texas?....