Spoo-nation

[3legged_lab]

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This has the potential to go somewhere.

[huntfishnv]

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I saw this picture a few times and didn't notice the drake untill now.

[Flightstopper]

I've already shared this but not here.
My pup is now tainted.

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He was too ashamed to look at the camera and it was debated in the blind whether he should be put down to prevent spreading. I considered it a milestone.

[3legged_lab]

I'll put this here where it belongs. I'm not picky, and will shoot whatever is flying that day.

On this particular day we shot a dozen of 'em.

[Bootlipkiller]

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This one worked in a little too close!

[Goldfish]

Why does is seem that their heads come off easier than other ducks? You'd think with that big ol thing out front, their necks would be stronger

[3legged_lab]

Where da nek at?

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[jarbo03]

I never got an answer when I asked to join the gang!

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[3legged_lab]

Permission not required. Just don't be ashamed to claim shooting the Hollywood Mallard.

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[3legged_lab]

Haha, my brother just sent me this pic. Fresh from the beetles.

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[huntfishnv]

Haha, my brother just sent me this pic. Fresh from the beetles.

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awesome

[Olly]

Haha, my brother just sent me this pic. Fresh from the beetles.

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What kind of beetles does he use to do that? That's pretty cool.

[3legged_lab]

Haha, my brother just sent me this pic. Fresh from the beetles.

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What kind of beetles does he use to do that? That's pretty cool.

We have a buddy who is a taxidermist, who does a lot of European mounts, I believe they are called dermistid beetles. He has a pretty good colony going and if he doesn't have work for them he's got to buy meat for them. I guess he put that spoony head in there because he ran out of customer work, my nephew wouldn't shut up about it so he gave it to him.

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[Olly]

I immediately started to research the beetles. Seems like a cool way to make a little side money.

[3legged_lab]

I immediately started to research the beetles. Seems like a cool way to make a little side money.

Euro mounts can be 100-200 bucks and up depending on skull bleaching and plaque mount.

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[Bootlipkiller]

I want a spoony skull.

[Ajverret]

I charge 80 without the wood but I can have a skull mount done in 2 days

[Ajverret]

I may have to try a few diff duck skulls

[3legged_lab]

I charge 80 without the wood but I can have a skull mount done in 2 days

Are you doing the bleaching for that?

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[Ajverret]

Yeah that's a take home price

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I usually charge 15 to 20 for the wood

[Bootlipkiller]

Very cool AJ!

[Ajverret]

Thanks

[Olly]

AJ do you use the beetles? How hard is it to keep a colony going?

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[jehler]

AJ do you use the beetles? How hard is it to keep a colony going?

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Just buy the damn beetles olly, if nothing else it's an in on a whole new type of goth freaky women for you

[Olly]

AJ do you use the beetles? How hard is it to keep a colony going?

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Just buy the damn beetles olly, if nothing else it's an in on a whole new type of goth freaky women for you

I'm thinking about it after I move it'd be a cool side hobby. Little macomb but still cool.

[3legged_lab]

AJ do you use the beetles? How hard is it to keep a colony going?

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Just buy the damn beetles olly, if nothing else it's an in on a whole new type of goth freaky women for you

I'm thinking about it after I move it'd be a cool side hobby. Little macomb but still cool.

Find yourself an old broken down chest freezer, cut part of the door away and replace with screen. Put a heat lamp and some cotton batting in there for them to use as bedding. Keep them fed and your colony will grow and replenish itself. Once the word starts getting around that you have them people will bring you skulls. Make sure to remove the brains and eyeballs before putting it in for the beetles, when they eat the brains they stink even worse.

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[QH's Paw]

I may have to try a few diff duck skulls

There was a guy on the refuge that had a chess set made of the duck skulls of diffrent species and hand painted their bills the original color and clear coated the clean and whitened skull. It was pretty cool.

[Ajverret]

I don't use beetles I boil my skulls and then clean them and boil somemore until its clean the disinfect and bleach with the strongest hair die bleach I can find let sit over night and wash off and mount on board

[Ajverret]

There are multiple ways to do it

[3legged_lab]

AJ, how long does it take you to boil then blow junk off/out of the skull with the air compressor then repeat to get one clean? Them beetles save a lot of labor.

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