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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 16, 2025, 07:14:58 pm »Got it out , skinned it, boned it out, got the head in the pot and the hide fleshed and in the rack before late after noon. 
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 16, 2025, 07:11:59 pm »My girls just chilling , got Beau's head finished and though I was about to catch up, until Thursday morning,I was in a stand on the other side of the farm and was having a good morning, seen a couple bucks but can't take one of them now and just waiting on maybe a doe to wander by, he texts me at 10 after 7 and said he had a buck down, so now the work starts all over. Nice 130lb buck, wide 17 1/2 inches, but not huge 8 point. Good morning.
Pappy
Nice 130lb buck, wide 17 1/2 inches, but not huge 8 point. Good morning. Pappy
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 16, 2025, 07:05:02 pm »While waiting on the heads to boil I got my last bucks hide fleshed and in the rack, almost ran out of room in the rack , guess I need to make a bigger one just in case. 
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 16, 2025, 07:02:08 pm »At this point in the week I had 3 heads going at once. 1 for Beau and my 2.
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1 for Beau and my 2.Pappy
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Bows / Re: Black locusts bow
« Last post by Selfbowman on November 16, 2025, 06:59:40 pm »Pic of locust.
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 16, 2025, 06:58:17 pm »Got his meat all done by noon and a start on my head. Got 38lbs of burger and steaks and donated the shoulders to the Classic, we have now reached our 25 shoulder gold so the rest will be made into burger.
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Got 38lbs of burger and steaks and donated the shoulders to the Classic, we have now reached our 25 shoulder gold so the rest will be made into burger. Pappy
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Bows / Re: Black locusts bow
« Last post by Pat B on November 16, 2025, 06:54:40 pm »Barely buoyant.
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 16, 2025, 06:54:38 pm »Great few days at the cabin, Beau and Joe came down to stay and hunt with me, I hunted a little but spent most of my time in the shop and kitchen, Had the Boy Scouts down also, weather was beautiful and I think we all had a great time. I had a lot of meat/hides and heads to catch up on , so stayed pretty busy. 
Had Beau's deer to take care of first thing, he can do it but I have the time and he knows I enjoy it.
Pappy
Had Beau's deer to take care of first thing, he can do it but I have the time and he knows I enjoy it. Pappy
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Bows / Black locusts bow
« Last post by Selfbowman on November 16, 2025, 06:51:53 pm »I got this black locust stave from Jim Hammer. I felt that it was real dense so I did a couple of one inch cubes and weighed them then did a float test. Here are the results. They both weighed .54oz. Pics of float test.
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Bows / Re: Seeking advice on birch bark wrapped sinew backed bow
« Last post by Pat B on November 16, 2025, 06:51:48 pm »TB3 usually dries in 24 hours but like JW said some of the moisture in the glue will migrate into the wood. There will still be some moisture from the sinew also.Maybe scraping the birch bark from the belly will speed up the drying some.