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Air Gun Home Forum Index » Hunting, Pest Control, Varminting » Furs    View previous topic :: View next topic  Furs   Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:49 am BmDubb Member Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 41 Location: Ohio With my house being mere feet away from a 500 acre cornfield, you can imagine how many squirrel are around. Every day I see 20-30 squirrels ( Not even looking for them ). I occasionally pop a few to rid them from my gardens, and I make squirrel gravy! Well I figured Id like use as much of the animal as possible. I am going to start saving the furs, and tanning them. I have been a hunter for years, and have tanned a few deer hides. I just recently discovered this " Brain Tanning " method. I am really into our " hunting roots" and love primitive ways ( Making my own recurve and arrows and downing deer ). The brain tanning seems like it would be a very fun, rewarding expirience to prepare an animal the way my ancestors have for thousands of years. Its awesome that an animal once killed has a home tanning kit sitting inside its skull. Has anyone else done this? Whats your prefered method? Also, What do you all do with your furs? Any cool ideas?   Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:07 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 I've never tanned, but I have salted and boraxed hides before. Just makes them hard instead of soft. I have read about brain tanning before and it does sound cool, although time consuming and messy. The only thing I ever made with a fur was a sheath for a knife. And I did a piss poor job of it. And you can't tan a squirrell with its own brain, I think you need a larger brained animal for that. btw, what kind of tree rats are they? Probably fox squirrels? _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:40 pm BmDubb Member Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 41 Location: Ohio The squirrels are suppose to have enough brains, from what Ive been reading every animal from squirrels to deer have enough brain matter to tan there own pelts. the only game that doesnt is a buffalo, which lacks the certain oils in the brains which soften and preserve the hide. In my area we have an abundance of Grey and fox squirrels. We even see a few black squirrels, and I have a picture somewhere of a solid white one that was caught on a trail cam, Ill try to find it.   Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:56 pm scroller99 Veteran Member Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 272 Location: Hopewell Junction I have heard that there was a fly tying company that used to buy any squirrel tails, I don't know if they still do it though? _________________ crosman2250 xt crosman 1077 crosman modded 2240 benji 392 drozd bumble bee   Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:03 pm BmDubb Member Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 41 Location: Ohio Mepps did, and still do. But it's not worth it. Its like 10 cents per tail. Id rather keep the tail for myself! lol   Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:52 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands If you can shoot a 100 a day... That would be more then what I'm earning at my summer job. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:56 pm SnowBunny Veteran Member Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 158 Gone Last edited by SnowBunny on Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:17 am; edited 1 time in total   Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:17 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands SnowBunny wrote: broommaster2000 wrote: If you can shoot a 100 a day... That would be more then what I'm earning at my summer job. Wouldnt that be a huge waste of natural resources, I dont think theirs anyway you could kill 100 Squirrel and then put use to all of them. I believe your only supposed to kill what you need, and eat what you kill. I need money. _________________ BIG GAP Furs     Air Gun Home Forum Index » Hunting, Pest Control, Varminting You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum All times are GMT - 5 Hours   Page 1 of 1   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First  Select a forum Main Forums----------------AirGunHome Q&AGeneral Air Gun Questions and TopicsPicture GalleryTarget Shooting: Casual, Fun and CompetitionHunting, Pest Control, Varminting People/Events/Airgun Issue Discussion----------------Introduce YourselfThe BS TopicClubs/Events/Regional/Political Airgun Issues Maintenance, Modification and Reviews----------------RiflesPistolsAntique, Collector and Novelty AirgunsBB GunsPellets/AmmoOpticsAccessoriesAirgun Smithing Buy, Sell or Trade Forums----------------For SaleWant to Buy   Note: If you are seeing "Please enter your username and password to log in." 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