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I got 41 120's, 2 330's, a Wyoming trappers shirt, fleshing beam and a FHA bumper sticker. Can't wait until oct1

I have been tanning furs and bought some new traps I am finally cleaning up all the furs I had in the freezer

You using a solution or brains?

What all you have there?

Nice connibears. You end up with a deal on me or just adding some?

assateague wrote:You using a solution or brains?

I am using a pickle and easy tan there is a coon and a skunk and 2 mink 5 muskrats and a ermine. The rats mink and ermine are being tanned for our taxidermist

You ever try any buckskin?

I've got a deer hide you're more than welcome to if you ever want to try it. I think I've got at least three hair-on in the freezer still, and another two which are just waiting to be stretched.

I will be trying buck skin this fall if I get a deer but I was going to buy some Of that trappers tan in the orange bottle that they sell on blue ridge trapping supply it says you just put it on and let it dry have you ever used it because it sounds to good to be true

I used it this year for the first time, on two coons and a fox. You do still have to work them, and there's a little work, but far, far less than with the brains. The coons I had to soak overnight in salt water, but the foxes only take 15 minutes. Read the directions well, since there are slightly different steps for each animal. I also found that I used twice as much as they recommended, so plan ahead when ordering it. I got it from eBay for about 25% the price of other places. I think 4 bottles were about $15. I like it, and will probably keep using it on small stuff, but I'm too cheap to spring for a bottle each time I want to do a deer. It smells pretty good, too. I sanded mine after tanning them, and it got very soft.

If you do buckskin, make your own lye from wood ash- it's free and very easy to do. Mix with soft water (rainwater works best) into a "slurry", until you can float an egg and a quarter sized patch of egg floats above the surface. Soak the deer hide in that for about 2 days, and the hair just sloughs right off with a hose.

rebelp74 wrote:Nice connibears. You end up with a deal on me or just adding some?

I got the 120's for 5 bucks a piece and 330's for 12. I thought that was a gd deal especially shipping prices on the rise.

That's the pisser with traps. You can find them cheap, but the shipping kills you.