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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: bushboy on August 23, 2013, 03:35:36 pm

Title: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 23, 2013, 03:35:36 pm
This owl was road kill.called manitoba conservation and they said it was ok to keep but not eagle feathers.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on August 23, 2013, 03:44:17 pm
You lucky dog bushy! We cant even look sideways at that stuff, dead or not. I suspect some of your native friends could use it?
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 23, 2013, 03:50:24 pm
It was given to me by susan the medicine woman who I made the bow for.my native buddies say that I am more indian than them.lol I am metis though.these owl are the largest in the world with a wing span of 5' and manitoba's provincal bird.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on August 23, 2013, 04:25:25 pm
Can you fletch arrows with them?
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Post by: PrimitiveTim on August 23, 2013, 04:36:38 pm
Dang! That's incredible!
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 23, 2013, 04:45:07 pm
I'm not much of arrow maker ,but I'm gonna try my hand at it.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on August 23, 2013, 04:49:40 pm
Those would be too cool on hunting arrows man, give it a try. If it was legal Id have you send them to me and I would make some arrows for you. But that cant happen here.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 23, 2013, 04:59:56 pm
Maybe if they were from canada it would ok?would send some for yourself.got a wack of northern hawk owl feathers also.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 23, 2013, 05:05:41 pm
And I could throw in some bear grease also?
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on August 23, 2013, 05:15:32 pm
They'd hang me if I got caught, Federal Offense even. There is no way to prove where they came from, nor would they care! Zero tolerance man.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: Gus on August 23, 2013, 05:49:40 pm
The Great Grey Owl is a VERY Cool Bird...

I say use them Bushboy.
They don't have to go on Arrahs Alone.
There is BIG medicine associated with the parts and pieces of Owls.


Headdress.
Tomahawk Accents.
Peace pipe Accents.
Walking Staff Accents.
Talking Stick Accents.
The legs could be knife handles for Knapped Blades...
You name it.

Don't send them South of the boarder...
Especially if you care for the recipient.
It would open them up to ALL the WRONG kinds of attention from Federal Fish & Game Authorities and the like.

Its a DAMN Shame.
But its the Law...

-gus
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: PrimitiveTim on August 23, 2013, 06:48:34 pm
Whoah!  I look forward to seeing those arrows!
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: Stoker on August 23, 2013, 07:37:00 pm
Good score.. They are deadly quiet on arrows.. Even when they are fletched like a fluflu it won't slowem down.. Be better off on the walking sticks, quivers and such..
Thanks Leroy
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: turtle on August 23, 2013, 08:49:17 pm
Lucky dog.

I saw a road killed red tail hawk on my way home from work today and could only sigh as drove on past it.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: mullet on August 23, 2013, 10:47:30 pm
That's cool, you're lucky. I think I'd mount the wings spread out so you can see what a magnificent bird it is. The feathers are really too soft for fletchting.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: owlbait on August 23, 2013, 11:18:33 pm
Very cool. Like stated already, use them as good medicine. I have a full body mount of a Great Horned Owl in my classroom.
I tell my students there are cameras in the eyes. They usually buy into it because the eyes seem to follow you as you move across the room.
owlbait
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: JW_Halverson on August 23, 2013, 11:36:49 pm
The Great Grey Owl is the largest in the western hemisphere, but Blakiston's Fish owl and the Eurasian Eagle owl both are half again bigger than the largest Greys. 

Great Greys nest in the dead of winter, when snow covers their prey base and temps in Canada are at their worst.  You gotta give this bird props for sheer toughness. 
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 23, 2013, 11:57:46 pm
Not to miss inform ,that's how I read it in my search j dub
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: Parnell on August 24, 2013, 02:42:48 am
Wonder what it tastes like.  I'd go with Eddie, mount the wings, they are kinda soft.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 24, 2013, 11:26:54 am
Might try some flu flu's.yes they are soft so I think they would work well for the back of a bow.
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: JW_Halverson on August 24, 2013, 01:18:09 pm
You GOTTA post pics if you do this.  You know that, right? 
Title: Re: great grey owl
Post by: bushboy on August 24, 2013, 04:14:58 pm
Indeed ,j dub.