Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: criveraville on February 28, 2011, 01:20:23 pm
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a few of the ones I had in the freezer. Will have some up for grabs on trading post as soon as they are ready
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I see some ball pythons and boas in there 8)
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That s right NTN.. Those are rather difficult to skin. Two rattlers, lots of bull, two rat snakes, two water snakes and 1 I don't have a clue about...
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that's a bunch of snakes! Last time I cleaned out the freezer I tacked up seven hides..
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Yea Cowboy. Most are road kill. Here in Texas as you know, right before or right after a good rain, the roads are littered with those long pretty bull snakes. I think I have about 30 more to skin. Will have to wait till Saturday. What's the best way to flesh a snake skin?
criveraville
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No fleshing needed. Well I don't know about them boa's and python's but the regualar snakes around here I just split em down the belly, peel the hide off and tack it to a board flesh side out for about a day and voila!
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^^^ I do it the same way and have never had a problem with them. They will keep forever dried out that way too as long as you keep the mice off em. :)
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If you skin the boas and pythons correctly you won't have to flesh them. The bigger ones can be tough, just make sure you get behind that membrane and you'll be fine. Once the boas get over 7ft it will take some yanking though. Once I get about foot started I will step on the carcass with one foot and pull. Make sure you pull close to the carcass though, even though they are thick skins if your hands get too far from the carcass you can tear the hide. Also be careful around the cloaca (turd cutter) it can take a little bit of work there if you want to get the tail in one piece.
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Thanks folks... Ok... Yea, I skinned two of the big ones yesterday. Two more today... I think they will look great on some bows
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When I clean out my freezer, all I find is some old chicken nuggets :(
Those will make some cool bows.
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that's funny Ossage.. Trust me.. My wife doesnt like my habbits of picking up road kill much...
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Mine picks em up for me and when she has a day off drives around with me at night on the backroads looking for them ;D
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Good woman their Nate, you should keep her. ;D
I've always tacked the skins flesh side up and salted them. Once dry any flesh comes off real easy. Then I rehydrate them to wash the salt off and get them ready for a bow. Is the salt an issue (since it isn't mentioned by folks)? I gave the pastors of the church some venison the other day and included in one of their packages a bull snake that had been in the freezer for a couple years. Funny, he never said anything about it... ??? I have my own refrigerator in the shop and try to keep snakes in that freezer. Seems to help in the marital harmony department. The only time my wife ever got real mad was when I put a container of maggots in the refrigerator to keep in between ice fishing trips. Seems like I got the spare fridge right about then now that I think about it. ;)
George
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Nature that's cool... I agree with George!!! My wife dislikes all the "Grizzly Man" stuff I do.. She's calm about it, but when we were first married it was like watching an episode of, "I love Lucy." except it wasn't Ricky yelling and the yelling wasn't Espanol.. Nope. It was very proper English..
Thanks for the info George.. The big snakes didn't skin out as easily. Well a couple of summers back on my way to summer school I spied a nice "fresh" kill bull snake.. I triple wraped it in Wmart bags and totally forgot about it until one day horrible screams flooded down the halls.. The school secretary was cleaning the freezer, ripped the bags open and out fell Mr. Frozen snakey.. She was not happy. I have my own small freezer... Funny about the pastor George... :D
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Criveraville;
You can pose them you know, makes for a better reaction....... >:D >:D ;D ::)
Wayne
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Ry about that.. I calls you nature. Wayne, there is a thought, but I think that's not a good idea for me. I'm the only man on campus O:)
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I see your point. ;) None the less......on your last day before retirement......the ones that were always giving you trouble...... >:D :o
Wayne
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My wife got a little mad when she found a beaver head wrapped up in the freezer. It only took here 4 months to find it.
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When I clean out my freezer, all I find is some old chicken nuggets :(
Too funny!! :D :D :D
(and too true, too! )
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Oh I had beaver issues too... Last summer my dad shot one in his creek... I brought it home, but it in a bag and put it in the bottom drawer, well it smelled after a few days... not happy.. but I did skin it.. ;D
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Nothin worse than a smelly beaver.
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I ain't gonna say a word....
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Fish and guest smell bad after 3 days.... Ben Franklin
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Here's one of the big boa's before getting all the flesh off..
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This is the last of the snakes.. 4 rattlers, 5 cooperheads, lots of bull snakes and some I dont know what they are 40 total
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Holy Cow that is a lot of scales... ;D
Wish ya lived closer, I have a bunch of hawks that would LOVE to eat all those thawed snake carcasses.
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That last bunch looks real purdy...
I sure wish we had snakes here
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Lee, it is a bunch.. Skinned em on Saturday and tacked 20 skins. Lots and lots of work.. I won't let them pile up like that any more.. You would be welcomed to them.. Must have tossed out 100 lbs of snake carcasses.. Thanks Cameroo... Yea, but y'all have monster bucks, mule deer elk.. We have snakes and lots of em :o
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Hey Criveraville, what state are you from? Just curious after seeing the variety of snakes you had there...thanks~
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Lee, I am in Texas.. Lots of different kinds of snakes here.. and that is just a bunch from one county!!!
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All I can say is..... god how I hate snakes!!! I got the chills just looking at your pics!!! Everyone has that one thing they are scared to death of, mine is... snakes!!!
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That's funny Bill!!! Yep.. Growing up mine were, el cucuy, la mano peluda and la migra in that order... ie... Booty man, the hairy hand and the border patrol...
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HickoryBill, I don't know how it is on this site, or with the members on here...... But in the FD, you NEVER, let them know what bugged you, or what you were afraid of ! ;) Because sure as can be, you would be faced with it with in a SHORT time period, and not just once! ::) ;D Like the frozen Coral snake in the Med box...... ;D
Wayne
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HickoryBill, I don't know how it is on this site, or with the members on here...... But in the FD, you NEVER, let them know what bugged you, or what you were afraid of ! ;) Because sure as can be, you would be faced with it with in a SHORT time period, and not just once! ::) ;D Like the frozen Coral snake in the Med box...... ;D
Wayne
Hey guys, I am scared of straight Osage!! Terrified in fact. Would hate to find any sneaking up on me!!! >:D
Bevan R
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That's right!!! I'm with Bevan.. I abhor primo back sinew... The horror!! The horror!!!
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;D ;D ;D ;D I guess it is worth a try.... ;)
Wayne
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I meant to say boogy man.. NOT booty man... my mistake.. happens often on my phone.. ::)
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I was wondering about that.....Booty man? So what is the phonetic pronunciation of "Cucuy" Coo Cooee?
Wayne
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yep.. it is "coo coo Y"
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All I can say is..... god how I hate snakes!!! I got the chills just looking at your pics!!! Everyone has that one thing they are scared to death of, mine is... snakes!!!
Well, I have to say I have no irrational fears...but there are legitimate things I'm afraid of...like bows exploding during first brace etc. But no "phobias" I really don't quite understand phobias.....
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Don't get out much.. I did not know there were boas in Texas or at least didn't remember it. By the way, every year at my physical my doc turns into the Bootyman with thin rubber gloves. Out to be illegal to mess with a man's turd-cutter.
Lane
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Aha.... coo coo Y, Gracias Mijo. ....... Mee ho.... ;D Aww... just go with , Gracias mi amigo. ;) Aieeeee aki! este el Cucuy!!
Buh wha ha ha ha ...... now you can't see me, but I can see you...... better check under the bed..... Ooooowheeeeoooooo.....oh, and the closet, yeah, the closet..... pay no mind to the big bloody Cuchillo in mi mano pelado....... ;D >:D ;D ;D
Sorry, My nephew is Puerto Rican, and I was just thinking of when the family comes down and stays at my brothers house.......But I don't think they speak spanish though.....Not a lot at any rate..... well, I will just have to use english..... ;D ;D Maybe a few scratching sounds on the bedroom door.....then leave, and wait till the next day to see how they slept. ;D
Wayne
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Oooops make that la mano "peluda" ::) I hope pelado doesn't mean anything bad ........if it means anything at all. ::)
Wayne
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Lane, no.. Thoses boas and pythons were given to me dead.. Pets that passed on. Wayne that's just funny... Nope.. Pelado just means dude... and peluda harry...
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Lane, no.. Thoses boas and pythons were given to me dead.. Pets that passed on. Wayne that's just funny... Nope.. Pelado just means dude... and peluda harry...
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Thanks Cipriano, I was worried, I might have accidently said something like..." Bread.....Eight ;) ::) >:D Wouldn't want the kids to ask their dad what that meant...... Well it's a hairy.... :o Who told you that ?!!! I don't think the kids speak Spanish, but my Neice speaks a little, and her Husband does. I have a Freind who came over when Castro was letting them go, and he gew up in Belle Glade. Farming community, and pretty much redneck central. His dad of course worked at the Sugar mill. Well he didn't speak any english at all when he came here, and then he learned redneck english. So when he spoke it was Walll, .......I .......reckon.......we ......kin.....go........down........the........road..........and .....get.....sumptin....ta......eat. But he spoke Spanish fluently.......but not with a good Cuban accent, so he would go spend a few weeks, at his relatives homes, and get his accent down. But he still speaks redneck english. ;D
Wayne
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Wayne that is just too funny!!! Most folks I meet say I speak with a Midwest accent.. Don't know how that happened, but sometimes the espanol accent comes out..
I took 20 snake skins to school today. Kindergarten was learning about animal coverings. I also took a vintage kangaroo fur coat and vintage Australian oppossum fur coat. The kids just loved seeing these things.. It was so kool..
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Yeah, there is a woman who works at one of the restaurants, in Thompson Falls, that was born there, and she sounds like she is from Minnesota ! Wow, I would like to see those Australian coats also! :o 8) As I am sure the rest of us would too. ;)
Wayne
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I've lived in much of the midwest, and there's quite a bit of difference between the Minnesota (or Minnesnowta as they say) and Iowa or Nebraska. Illinois is a little different as well. I've lived in Texas for almost 4 years now and don't feel like I've picked up the local accent at all yet. Maybe I never will. Interestingly, there's a pretty wide difference between east and west Texas accents, though I think they're both cool. Of course, Texas is large enough to be a couple three normal sized states, so it makes sense.
Good idea Wayne, you guys should start a animal skin fashions thread. My daughter studied a semester in Russia and brought me back one of their coonskin hats. It's waaaaay too warm to wear in Texas. Only thing like that I own.
George
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Noooooo.. Really??? 8) Great idea.. I posted them on here under new thread... Too funny George... Welcome buddy!! I just posted the coats on here unders a new thread.. That would be really fun to have studied in Russia. I really enjoy Russiaon literature.. It is dark and the mood is opressive, but I still enjoy the lit. Folks from El Paso have a very distinct sounding accent..
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Well George, just say, Wal, if the @#$#% gumment don't keep their cotton picken hands off'n my money......etc;
and you will be able to get by. ;)
Wayne
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I'll work on that Wayne, thanks. ;D
Great minds work alike?? I'll go look for the other thread. Laura loved her time abroad. She also did a few months after she graduated teaching English in Turkey. She had to bail from that as it got too dangerous. Didn't surprise me when she married a man from Africa.
Life is good. Texas is sure a great place to live.
George
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Hey guys here is the thread I posted on Around the Campfire with pics of the coats, Kangaroo, Australian Opossum and Fox fur coats and Caribou hide
George that sounds very interesting and fun. I have always loved leaning about other cultures and customes. What part of Africa? Hope you got a hunting contact out of that as a dowry ;D
Life is good!! Amen!!! Texas is a great place to live and raise a family... It is sad that it is too dangerous to return to the old country for a few days (Mexico). Read that short story.. and pass it onto your daughter. What degree did she get? I have a degree in English with minors in History, biology and Spanish.
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I like those coats. The possom coat looks much nicer than I thought it would. They are disgusting looking creatures and were forever getting in my chicken coop to steal eggs when I was in Nebraska.
My SIL is from Ghana, but grew up in France. His mother's still in Africa and I do want to get over there sometime and do a safari, but we haven't talked about it a lot. He's working on his citizenship and working in politics in Denver. He thinks he has a place for me to go elk hunting there, but it may not work out yet for this coming season. Laura's degree is in "global studies", hence the overseas study. Interestingly she speaks some Russian, Turkish, Spanish, French and of course English. Our granddaughter will be bilingual in English and French, our SIL's primary language. He's also fluent in English and Spanish, though the locals here chuckle at him since he learned to speak the Spanish spoken in Spain.
It is a shame that Mexico has become such a dangerous place.
George
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Rattler skins
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19 Dried skins
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Students admiring skins
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Love these patterns
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rattlers and water snake
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Texas rat snakes.. Boy do these get long and wide...
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snakes tacked, rinsed off and sun tanning ::) ::) ::)
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Holy Moly that is one heck of a snake skin stash you have there! Green with envy up here in the cold, snowy North country.
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Nice!!
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I kinda like those dark rat snake skins, cool!
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Texas is large enough to be a couple three normal sized states
Got a friend in Alaska that would tell you to pipe down or they will split their state in HALF and make Texas the third largest.
Or else claim that Texas is too small to be a state and too big to be an insane asylum.
On the other hand I always remind him Alaska don't know barbecue.
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Green with envy up here in the cold, snowy North country.
Lee I just love that phrase ;D Green with envy.. never heard it before
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Gracias gstoneberg.. JW the dark skins look great over yellow.. Your friend from Alaska is funny and I can not imagine no barbecue!!!
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Gstoneberg
The possum coat is really neat!! Yes they are muy feos…
Your SIL must be an interesting chap.. I took a year of French in college.. don’t use it much here in Texas. Elk hunting would be superb.. It is really neat that your daughter had those experiences.. That is too funny about his Spanish, but when I would go to Mexico the “natives” would treat me like a total foreigner.. must have been the accent..
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Texas is large enough to be a couple three normal sized states
Got a friend in Alaska that would tell you to pipe down or they will split their state in HALF and make Texas the third largest.
Or else claim that Texas is too small to be a state and too big to be an insane asylum.
On the other hand I always remind him Alaska don't know barbecue.
You crack me up John. Are you coming down to hog hunt? Got another group coming down this weekend from Nebraska this weekend. They're gonna have the hogs all turned into sausage before you get down here?
criveraville, I took 2 years of Spanish in HS, sure wish I'd studied harder, would be real helpful here. If you ever get up towards Abilene, let me know, would love to meet you at the lease, chase some pigs and swap stories. Do you hog hunt where you live?
George
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Stoneberg, I am up there every now and then. Would love to meet up with you and chat a bit and chase pigs. I know my son would love to come along too. He is 7. I have hog hunted a bit here in Stephenville, but not as much as I would like.
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Here is what "Me and Minni Me" look like
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Nice, looks like there should be a 6-shooter on that young mans side. ;) You guys are almost on the way to the lease, which is near Cross Plains. Take a look at your calendar for weekends in April and PM or email me. Warning....my wife's birthday is the first weekend so that one is out. :) Maybe I can talk Gary into coming out that weekend too and we can all work on bows, or arrows, or whatever.
George
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Criveraville, Well for one thing I don't think that they say "Buenos Dios,Y'all" in Mexico......just a thought as to the tourista treatment. ;D As for Mini Me, good looking kid. But where "IS" his six gun, and belt, and where are his silver tips for his boots, and where is his 12 inch belt buckle, and his lariat ? He can ride and rope can't he? I mean he is a Texican. 8) He should be able by now to rope a calf by his back legs. ;) And WHERE is his Sombrero? :o Poor kid is going to go around squinting all the time. ::) Does he help you collect the snakes for skins? Have ou got him scraping staves yet?
Wayne
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gstoneberg, you are right, but it was a school music program and they don’t take to kindly to guns at school Sounds great!! Thank you. I will PM you. Gotta check with the wife and see which one works. It would be great to meet you and Gary up there or down there..
Stickbender, haaaa haaaa no they don’t.. Thank you!! He is a handsome little man… He really wants a six shooter. Trust me, but I told him he will have to wait until he gets older.. Oh he is a Texican all right and he has a funny Texican accent too. He has a rope, no sombrero, but a hat, George Straight hat he calls it, and he is the first one out of the car when we stop to pick up a snake.. yes, but not made a workable bow yet…
Here is a pick of him on a caballo, with his first deer every ever this last January. Took it with a .223, and at his little buddies birthday party shooting a German WWI 8mm water cooled machine gun!!!!! Down here in Texas we roll our own way… :o ::) Even teachers kids.. ;D
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Nice pictures. I'm envious, I've never fired a machine gun. Hope we can get him on a hog.
George
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Good for him getting a Deer ! 8) As for scraping, tell him it is all part of the Apprenticeship. ;) Sounds like you have a partner to pick up snakes, and hunt and fish with. Good for you ! You need to put a brim on that helmet, so when he rides his Cayuse, or Caballo, he will still be safe, but look more like a Texican! ;) Whoo hoo, I would dearly love to have that Machine gun! It looks like a Maxim. If so it was invented by Hiram Maxim, an American, who sold it to all sides before WWI broke out. The U.S. bought some, but not enough, and when the War broke out, they were scrambling to acquire more. Just like in WWII, there was a woeful lack of Machine guns. So much so, that during training, the soldiers used wooden ones like toys! Hiram Maxim was also the inventor of the "Silencer" Or more properly known as a Suppressor. He invented it, so he could target practice in his back yard without his neighbors complaining about the noise. He advertised it with his picture, and called himself "Doctor Shush". He tried to sell it to the U.S. Military. They were not interested. Some South American countries, and Germany were though. That and Machine guns were purchasable by anyone with the money, up till 1935, and since then you have to buy a stamp from the Government to possess one of either. The US Military big wigs, were always a day late in purchasing better equipment, and implementing better ideas. There was a man, by the name of Christensen, who was a machinist, and as a hobby, designed and built tanks! Some hobby huh? Well he made one that had solid rubber tires, and without the tank treads on it, it would go 110 mph !! With the treads on it would still do 80 mph!! The Military, said we have our own tank that we designed, and we don't need yours. He challenged them to a test at their obstacle course. They finally agreed, and all the big brass Muckity Mucks were there with their smug faces waiting for their tank to out do this amateur's tank. Well Christie let them go first. The course consisted of a row of logs, concrete stumps, rows of barbed wire, and a big sump pit. Well the Military's tank got hung up on the concrete stumps, and couldn't get off. So Christie gets in his tank, and pushes their tank off of the stumps, and goes on through the course, and then back through it, and finally gets out of his tank, and the Big boys, were leaving, and refused to talk to him. A few years later, some time in mid 30's , he contacted the Military, and told them he had a completely new design, and it was his best tank yet. The military looked at it, and said, it wasn't suited for military purposes. He showed it to Germany, and they said how much? So he sold it to Germany. He also invented an amphibious vehicle, that crossed the Hudson River at the worst time of the year, and it went straight across, and then back. The Military, said nah. They didn't have an amphibious vehicle at the time, that could even get down the banks to try to cross. Well in WWII we had the Patten tank. Which our tank crews affectionately nicknamed the "Steel Coffin", because one round from the German tanks, and it was toast. They had so many crews killed, that they were taking infantry soldiers, and giving them a days training, and sending them out the recently repaired tank, some still had the remains that were spattered inside from the last crew. The only saving grace was we had a whole bunch of them, and they were easily repaired. It was under armored, and under armed, with a sorry excuse of a 75 MM cannon on it. It took multiple hits, from two or more Pattens to disable a German tank. Oh, the German tanks, that were running rings around our tanks, with their 88MM guns, that would go through both sides of the Patten tank, and destroying our tanks, like clay pigeons ! Well, according to our Military geniuses, it was not suited for military purposes! It was the very tank that Christie tried to sell to our Military. The Germans called it the Tiger.
I would love to have that water cooled Machine Gun, but I would really rather have the German MG 34! It was the precursor to the MG 42. The 34 was very accurate, had a slower rate of fire, and was light. The 42 on the other hand, was not as accurate, and fired well over a thousand rounds a minute, and not as light. They had to fire it in short bursts, to keep the barrel from over heating, and to conserve ammo. The German troops didn't like it for that reason. Both the 34, and 42 were very reliable, and had the nifty feature, of being able to change a barrel in under 10 - 15 seconds. You flipped a lever, on the side, and flipped up the cover, and used the heavy gloves, to remove the shot out, or overheated barrel, and replaced it with the spare, closed the cover, flipped the lever back in place, and charged a round, and you were back in business. Thankfully we incorporated some of the features of those guns in our M60. I would still rather have the MG 34 though. ;) Or a Browing .50 caliber! Boy, I bet your Son enjoyed that Birthday party! A pony just don't cut it compared to a Real Machine Gun! Why even a Payasso wouldn't be able to compete with that! :o ;D Boy if you played army with that kid, you had better be sure you were on his side! :o :o Man, I never had a Birthday party like that! Hey, Mom, I'm going over to a friends house and play army. Ok sweet heart, be careful and watch out for snakes, Oh yeah, we WILL be looking for them!!! >:D >:D........... ;D ;D Diego is a lucky Kid to have friends like that! Diego,....hmmmm wasn't that the real name of .....Zorro?.... :o I always felt bad for poor ol Sargent Garcia. He wasn't a baddie, and just wanted ample food, and drink, and to retire on a pension, and maybe mooch a meal, and drink or two, now and then. I felt bad for him, because of all the sashes he had to replace, because of all the big Z slashes in them. Sargent Garcia!! Si El Capitan?
What is the meaning of this?! You have a big Z slashed in your sash! Oh, well you see El Capitan, last night, "when the full moon was bright, came the horseman known as Zorro"....... :o ;D ;D All rights reserved by Walt Disney Movie Productions, Inc. Sorry, my childhood intruded there for a moment. The Name Diego just triggered it. I am trying to remember Zorro's last name....Diego.......or Don Diego somthing or another.....Anyway, I could not get over the fact that they couldn't tell it was him. It was just little eye mask, and he never disguised his voice. Or why they couldn't trail his horses tracks in the day time to find the secret cave that he hid the horse in. Dang, I will be up all night trying to think of his last name. Why couldn't you have named your Son Victor, Nelson, or Bob ? ::) ::)
Wayne
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Stickbender, I enjoyed reading all about the military history. I guess you can tell I love history. I love most subjects actually… I have a passion for learning. Unfortunately, our military was not ready at all for WW11 and German made weapons were far superior.. El Capitan was a funny character that got picked on my Zoro.. When I was a kid I wanted to be Zoro too… Well the name is an interested story.. Since our last name is Rivera and I love art and we can trace our lineage back to the great Mexican painter, Diego Rivera. That’s part of it and I just love the name. I was not very common at all until Dora the Explorer and Ice Age ruined it for the uniqueness and kids started being named Diego… but none are Diego Rivera!!!! Unfortunately, that is not the end of the story… The rest of the story is that his parents could not compromise on his name, so his entire name is, Elijah Cipriano Diego Rivera
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Oh, is he going to cuss you when he has to write his full name on checks, and documents. Really really, small writing.... ::) ;D
When I was in the Military, I had some Puerto Rican, and Mexican Friends that multiple names also. Something to do with various names of Family members being added. Good thing Texans didn't adopt that habit. Hey, looky thar, it's Ol Billy Bob, Joseph, Michael, David, Houston...... ;D ;D
Wayne
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Oh I know!!! I know.. When I was a kid I totally disliked my name, no one could ever spell it or pronounce it...
I've been laughing out loud randomly about about good what it would sound like if texans did that...
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What my bride shared with me.. Fits me.. Proverbs 12 This verse reminds me your snake roadkill hobby--- Lazy people don’t even cook the game they catch, but the diligent make use of everything they find. O:)
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Got my first snakes of the year ready. A big chicken snake, a 30 inch cooperhead and 3 big water snakes :o :o :o
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Did you turn those around or do you dry them flesh side down?? I've always dried them flesh side up. Anyway, you clearly are a snake magnet. I hope when we get to the lease you lure out a couple rattlers to adorn my trade bow... ;)
George
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Holy Schmackers that is a lot of snakeskins, are you not afraid you might have a live one you`ve missed among the frozen ones? The Copperhead is that a very poisonous species? Here in Norway we have three species of snakes and they are all protected. One of them is mildly poisonous, but you should see a doc if bitten.I is rather seldom to see any of them. Markus.
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Nope George. They are flesh side up or out... lol.... yea.. me too. I know that area has lots of rattlers in it.. I sure can give it a try ;D
Markus, it is a lot of skins ::) Nope, they are all usually dead when I get them and I cut the head off before I begin to skin them. The Cooperhead is very poisonous, but thank God I have not had a problem.. We have lots and lots of different types of snakes here in Texas..
My wife's family is from Norway. Here Grandfather was full Norwegian and his last name was Grimland.
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Number 5
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I'm tellin ya....snake magnet. :o
G
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Cipriano, is that last picture a coach whip? We have them down here, but the last one I saw, was when I was about ten years old. I remember them as being a Little lighter in color, but pretty much the same as the one in the picture you have there.
Wayne
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I think I am George.. Stickbender it is. It is long. About 6 ft long. It looks like a milky cream color when the skin dries out. Pretty pattern too if the bow is painted a bright color and helps the pattern come out. Only the 3 rd one I have come across.
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number 6
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dang...you are a "no-legged magnet" for sure! What is the last one skinned on the board?
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;D I think it's a coach whip
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I think this makes 7, 8 and 9 for the year..
Sticks, this is one of your copperheads
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Nice Copper Head! 8) Well looks like you are set for trading now. ;)
Wayne
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Thanks Wayne. The rat snake was hit n front of my school where the kids get picked up. Caused a real ruckous ::)
The chicken snake was killed in a chicken coop in Gorman, TX by my buddies father in law. The copperhead was killed on a dairy in Dublin, Tx by my student's dad. :o
It's been a lot of fun trading :D
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Got a big Eastern diamondback water snake. Will post pics soon
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Eastern Diamondback water snake Number 10
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Here are 11, 12 and 13.
I really like the patttern on that Eastern Diamondback water snake....
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so far its a good year for snakes and I have not killed any of them :D :D
Oh, on the water snake on the table, yall gotta know that didnt make the wife happy or how I empty my pockets on the table.. >:D
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Sometimes wives worry about the silliest things... O:)
Nice snakes!
George
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Well, you would think the money on the table would divert her attention....... ::) Next time add chocolate........ ;D ;D
Wayne
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Awesome thread, Cipriano!
Hey, I was speaking with a guy at the Classic and his method of preparing the skins was to use a mixture of 16 oz. of Glycerine with 6 oz. of ... I want to say Isopropyl Alcohol. He soaks it repeatedly for a day, painting it on and then gives it 2-3 coats for another 2-3 days and then they are done. He claimed to me they were more elastic and water repellant that way.
Don't know anything about it or if I got the second ingredient right, but, thought I'd pass on the info.
Got your quiver in the works.
Speak with you soon.
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Wayne, I saw a "coach whip", (Pine snake) a few weeks ago. It was about 7' long and the first I've seen in about 25 years. Unfortunately this area is about to be mined up.
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I know Jorge, I know.. >:D
Stickbender, I actually usually have a bowl in the cubard designated as the place I empty out my pockets, but I slipped that day.... But the cash didnt work.. will have to try the chocolate trick O:)
Thanks, Steve.. It's been a great way to go green and recycle road kill :D
Mullet, those are about my favorite snakes.. long, slender and just pretty in their unique manner...
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Cipriano, maybe larger denominations of bills will work, along with the Chocolate. ::)
Eddie, the last one I saw, was when I was about 13 or 14 years old. Loooonnnnng time ago. ;D As I remember it, it was about six feet long or so. Never saw a small one. Yeah, unfortunately it is getting to be that way pretty much everywhere. With all the golf courses, and housing projects. How is your back doing? Mine is giving me a fit, but it is starting to get a little better. Been cutting trees, and such, and I think that aggravated it. Cipriano seems to have some nice rock in his area. Maybe you will be in his neck of the woods, on one of your road trips, and you can stop by his place, and go look for rock, and such, and maybe some pre history artifacts.
Wayne
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Thanks, Steve.. It's been a great way to go green and recycle road kill :D
Reminds me of a poem by Baxter Black about how maybe we can appease the PETA types by using road killed furbearing animals instead of hunting them:
"MAKE IT A HABBIT TO PICK UP YOUR RABBIT.
DON'T LEAVE HIM TO DRY IN THE SUN.
FOR THE SAKE OF A GARMENT RECYCLE YOUR VARMINT.
IT'S TACKY TO JUST HIT AND RUN!"
Apologies to Baxter Black, Cowboy Poet and former large animal Veterinarian, for any misquotation of the excerpt.
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and 14, 15 and 16.... all chicken snakes... one is 7ft 1 inch
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Cheerio and oh my and all that fluff and stuff ;D >:D ;D
O:)
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Wow, 3 more already. That young man is quite the snake helper. I really had fun this weekend, hope he did too. Can't get over how he could shoot that little bow. Anyway, those look like really nice skins.
George
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Hey Rice Crispies and Cinomen Toast crunch ;)
Thank you mucho ;D
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Thank you Jorge. He had a blast! Really enjoyed it. He did well with that bow. It surprised me how well..
I took in 8 more snakes yesterday evening. Will be posting pics soon ::)
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1 I don't have a clue about...
Now there's something I can bring to the forum. I was a biology major in college and I'm usually pretty good at snake I.D. if it's native to TX. Shoot me a close up pic and I'll give it a shot. At the very least I can make something up that sounds cool. ;D
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I took in 8 more snakes yesterday evening. Will be posting pics soon ::)
8 more!?? Amazing, when you said you'd get more you sure knew what you were talking about. More chicken snakes??
George
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Thank you Stretch, will do for sure... I did I did George..
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I really like this Eastern Diamondback water snake.. Only have had two of theset... This one is going south, down Georgia way to ken75
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Here are the 3 more, that actually makes 9 George and I am working on a trade to get these 2 water snakes
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I think that makes 25 for the year ;D
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Wow, those chicken snakes are really eating the eggs. No wonder they hate them.
George
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George,
Each snake had eggs in it, but two had at least 5 eggs a piece. One snake had what appeared to be the contents of an entire nest. Little baby nestlings... It was gross, and yucky and slimy.. I felt like I had had enough snake skinning for a while... YUCK!!! and I aint squeamish 8)
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Skinned a chicken snake today. It had a golf ball in it's mid section!!
Will try to post pics tomorrow
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Hey C, I used to put golf balls in the nests in the chicken coop to encourage the young pullets to go in there to lay eggs. Bet your snake had indigestion...well, before it died. >:D
George
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I did that too.. this silly thing swallowed it.. Crazy stuff..
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I don't know if you still can , I imagine so, but when I was a kid, I remember seeing glass, porceline and chalk eggs, just for the purpose of getting hens to lay, and to replace eggs that you took from them, so they would continue to sit, and lay eggs. At least that was what I was told then.... ;) Hmmm, I wonder if you took those big plastic Easter eggs, and put in a nest box, if that would encourage her to lay bigger eggs?
Wayne
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Look out Cipriano, I'm working on being a snake magnet. Found a little snake in the sticky trap we keep inside the garage by the door. I couldn't get him out alive, so I skinned him after I got him off the sticky stuff. If anybody is building a 12" bow I'll be offering him for trade very soon... ;D
Wish he was 5' longer. ;)
George
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5867938009_e362e49db1_z.jpg)
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Knife sheaf covering! ;) So how did you get the sticky stuff off of it? Goo gone, Dawn dish detergent, etc.?
Wayne
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Most of it stayed on the sticky trap. There's a little on the hide up near the head which is where he was stuck the worst. I figured I'd let the skin dry and then put some goo gone on it.
That would make a pretty sheath cover. :)
George
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George,
Was that a little Kingsnake or Pygmy Rattler?
They look a lot alike without heads.
;D
-Gus
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Gstoneberg
Elk hunting would be superb
I live in colorful Colorado, Any time you want to come for Elk let me know I go but every year but im trying it with a bow i made from horseback.
Katt
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Katt, you are killing me with those Elk hunting threats from horseback!
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Gus that was not a rattler. Looks like a blotched water snake to me. My trade bow has a similar pattern, though much more subdued. Here's the picture I found of it:
(http://www.austinreptileservice.net/image/blotchedwater3.jpg)
I could be wrong though.
Katt, I've only been elk hunting once in Montana and didn't take a shot, though I had a couple close encounters. I'd love to go, and would be happy going after a cow, but I'm not much of a horseman and the altitude wiped me out last time. ::) I could bring you osage staves?
George
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;D Got lots of Osage but could always use more >:D Definitely like to hunt pigs tho if you want to hunt we can set something up, non resident tags are pricey but we can definitely do some hunting. Got Archery season this year. PM me we can talk.
Wouldnt mind some snake skins tho >:D
Katt
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Looks like the snakes at the lease are gonna be in trouble... ;D ;D ;D ;D
You should've come hog hunting back in March or April. My last trail cam pictures at the lease were showing daytime temps in the 105 degree range. I'm tentatively planning my next lease get-together on July 8-10. Want to come down and swelter? It could be 110 by then. 8)
I'll PM you later, maybe on my next trip in to cool off in the A/C after running the draw knife.
Sorry for the hijack Cipriano. :-[
George
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Definitely nonvenomous.
Water snake or kingsnake.
Thanks,
-Gus
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George, I run the snake racket around her.. >:D
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So This would probably a good place to ask the question:
In backing bows with snake skins, does the skin have to be raw or dried, or can you used tanned snake skins?
Thank You Serpent Masters... ;D
-Gus
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Check out this thread: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,11896.0.html
I've only used raw snake skins.
George
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Excellent.
Thank You George.
-Gus
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Hola Cipriano!
Well, I'm finally gettin around to posting some pictures! ;) ;D
The snake skins for the trade are awesome! Better than I expected, thank you.
A couple of pictures as your project just got finished this evening.
Keep an eye out for a package soon.
Stephen
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Esteban, man that looks perfect :) My daughter is gonna love that!! I told her she had a quiver on it's way soon from Florida, bit she doesn't have a clue what it looks like.. It's my college colors too..
I'm glad you like the skins. Man they always look better when they go far away... One of them a teacher brought me, and the other one abuddy from church got it for me after his daughter killed it. Can't hardly wait..
Gracias amigo,
Cipriano
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Speaking of applying skins... ;D...once they are glued down with TBIII what kind of tape do you folks use to remove the scales? Do you pull the tape against the rows (from tail to head) or the other direction?
Thanks!!
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Excellent, just what I needed to know Scott. Do you peel from tail to head or from head towards the tail? Just wondering if one direction is more prone to tear the skin. Thanks again.
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Will do...thanks again!
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Lee, those snakes must have finally come out in that cold weather country you live in :D :D
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Yup, finally! >:D
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Somebody asked me to bring this back to life to see the snakes I will be getting in the weeks to come. Here ya go :laugh:
Cipriano
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Got the skins today and they are better than great. I think you should charge more! They will really look good on my David Knight bow! Thanks A/Ho Joe
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:)
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It's that time of year again.
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Sent you a PM.
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How much you want for that caramel candy? ;D
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How much you want for that caramel candy? ;D
Imagine a set of that hue? Thanks Eddie!