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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: huntertrapper on March 01, 2008, 11:21:10 am

Title: bacon grease
Post by: huntertrapper on March 01, 2008, 11:21:10 am

would bacon grease be okay to put on my arrows or bows to keep thm semi waterproof or not. or as a finish? ??? ;D

Title: Re: bacon greaee
Post by: Hillbilly on March 01, 2008, 11:21:51 am

Yep.

Title: Re: bacon greaee
Post by: huntertrapper on March 01, 2008, 12:05:13 pm

all i needed to know thanks. :)

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: Pat B on March 01, 2008, 12:34:17 pm

Don't let your dog near them though!!! ;D    Pat

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: Dustybaer on March 01, 2008, 12:42:25 pm

doesn't grease get rancid and smelly?

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: Sparrow on March 01, 2008, 12:43:59 pm

Porcupines love to chew anything thats got even a hint of bacon grease on it (Bears too !) Frank

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: huntertrapper on March 01, 2008, 12:59:21 pm

good i might be goning bear huntin next year so maybe itll atract them. you guys thinks it might scare the deer away? and dustybaer good question, does it get bad after a while?

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: hawkbow on March 08, 2008, 06:54:14 pm

My brother once used bacon grease on his boots and didn't tell me what he had done... we were hunting elk on tghe north fork of the shoshoni river...(grizzly bears everywhere that time of year.eating on pine nuts.) we had bears following us everywhere we went.. and coming into camp at night.. all because of those darn boots... so my figuring is if a bear can smell it then so can a deer, elk etc.. Mike a/ho

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: Justin Snyder on March 08, 2008, 07:52:22 pm

I know a deer can smell them, but I don't think it will make a big difference.  The thing you need to remember is that people camp and cook bacon all the time so it isn't exactly out of the ordinary for the smell of bacon to be lofting through the trees.  Justin

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: hawkbow on March 08, 2008, 10:00:37 pm

I agree Justin, the best bet is to keep the wind in your face.. then it doesn't matter what you smell like ... Mike a/ho

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: El Destructo on March 08, 2008, 10:51:41 pm

make sure that you strain the Bacon grease through a Coffee Filter....let it sit....and don't use the Fat...use the white lard....or you could always just buy you some pasteurized Lard from the Supermarket...it wont go rancid

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: huntertrapper on March 09, 2008, 12:58:59 am

well, i smelled them after a couple hours, my arrows, and they dont smell like it any more. they surely are water proof. but they dont smell like bacon anymorre. but boy does it smell good when first put on. :) ad thats funny hawkbow, i had thought about some big black boar bear come waddlin to me while im sittin with a bacon covered arrow on my bow. ;D

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: michbowguy on March 09, 2008, 01:40:18 pm

what yankee said,lard is cheap.

but if you keep rendering and straining and cooling in the fridge you will end up with non smelly "white gold"

use it all the time for bows,arras,darts ,leather.
great stuff
mbg

Title: Re: bacon grease
Post by: huntertrapper on March 09, 2008, 04:45:36 pm

yeah it makes the water that lands on my arrows and bow bead instead of just soaking in.