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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: h20hunter on September 10, 2013, 08:00:48 AM

Title: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: h20hunter on September 10, 2013, 08:00:48 AM: So....picked up my spring bear hide.....had a local taxi do a quick tan simply for preservation. Kids thought it was pretty cool.
Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: bknilvr00 on September 10, 2013, 08:02:14 AM: Right on dude. Looks pretty good. Did you mount the skull on the wall yet?

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Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: h20hunter on September 10, 2013, 08:04:27 AM: Kind of....it is on the wall where a screw already was....waiting to get back last years skull so I can put them both up and measure them out.

You seeing anything? Planning on heading out to the camera tomorrow after work....maybe stick a doe if I see one....(saw you pm after I clicked post)
Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: bknilvr00 on September 10, 2013, 08:07:01 AM: Unfortunately no. Been taking friends out on the river for humpies. The few times I've tried at the in-laws has been a waste of time. The deer ignore the cob. They prefer the mother in laws plums.... Either way, no luck yet.

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Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: h20hunter on September 10, 2013, 08:07:41 AM: Yum.....plum fed blacktail.........stick one! Wanna go for a walk tomorrow?
Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: bknilvr00 on September 10, 2013, 08:10:59 AM: Absolutely! Gimme a time and I can swing through town and pick you up. I've got some humpie corpses for you too. Frozen and ready for your use. The only stipulation is my wife wants a crab for taking up her freezer space...

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Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: h20hunter on September 10, 2013, 08:11:44 AM: Crab is all closed and done...........

I was planning on going from work to the gate.......
Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: bknilvr00 on September 10, 2013, 08:14:31 AM: Oh. Well then I guess its the can for the fish. What time do you think you'll be gettin to the gate?

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Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: h20hunter on September 10, 2013, 08:17:14 AM: Probably 6ish.....
Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: bknilvr00 on September 10, 2013, 08:23:00 AM: Right on. I'll plan for just getting there around the same time then.

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Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: Kc_Kracker on September 25, 2013, 08:35:30 PM: who is the taxi? that seems very fast and a nice job :tup:
Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: wazzu99 on September 26, 2013, 11:12:40 AM: what did that cost you? Looks pretty cool.

Wazzu
Title: Re: 2013 Spring Bear Hide, tanned for preservation...
Post by: h20hunter on October 08, 2013, 09:29:44 AM: Sorry...missed a few questions.......

Taxis is Shawn Morrow out of the Lake Stevens area.....

Cost was about $200..........