As Boom Boom suggested in the Guns and Forum Thread.
Babble needs a trapping thread.
Baiting, Trapping, and Skinning Thread
Tue, 2010-08-03 20:46
#1
Baiting, Trapping, and Skinning Thread
Tue, 2010-08-03 21:43
#2
Has anyone recently tanned a hide using more historical methods?
No, but I once hid a tan. I used Hegelian dialectics as my historical method.
You? Please share.
Tue, 2010-08-03 22:01
#3
@ webgear
brain tanning? yeah, I did it once (part of an elk), just to go through the exercise. It is truly magic alchemy to see stinking wet meat turn into leather before your eyes. Never went through the further step of smoketanning.
Most of the hide work I have done is for drums, so tanning was not necessary.
But I am confused. Are we really talking about hidework or is this just a metaphor like all that pig stuff? I could run with it either way. I remember reading a description that Jonathan Swift's satire was so refined that he could slice an opponent's head off his shoulders and leave it standing there without him even noticing.
Tue, 2010-08-03 22:11
#4
The 9/11 threads seem to have become a series of lessons in bad math and physics according to Fig Newton, and of being ejected for pointing it out to people.
Tue, 2010-08-03 22:33
#5
@ webgear
Ah, good. Well aside from what I have mentioned, I haven't done any trapping. Just some hunting, and cleaning, and collecting stuff from roadkill.
As for hidework. Interesting work, but it is filthy, smelly, and rips the shit out of your hands, as I am sure you know.
Tue, 2010-08-03 23:44
#6
Boom Boom
As Boom Boom suggested in the Guns and Forum Thread.
Babble needs a trapping thread.
You really don't get sarcasm, do you?
Wed, 2010-08-04 08:12
#7
You snared 'im, Boom Boom.
Wed, 2010-08-04 11:33
#8
Catchfire
Mabe we could add fishing to this thread? I'm going to fish some Coho salmon in the Klondike this Thanksgiving. I'm pretty stoked.
Wed, 2010-08-04 11:59
#9
You really don't get sarcasm, do you?
Ah...
Well no matter. it's all the same stuff, really.... messy, smelly... and the thrill of success when some creature takes the bait and is garrotted, gets its head smashed in, or its leg crushed.
And there's road kill, of course.
Wed, 2010-08-04 12:17
#10
Did someone call? I find it hard to cope with trapping, but I'm not 100 per cent opposed. I think I'm opposed to it as "sport," which I consider to be a word signifying bad conscience.
I have liked fishing a bit in the past. I would rather someone else put the wiggly thing on the hook for me, but I'm prepared to bop at the end, when I make the catch, if I have a good bopper. I did learn how to bop, and it's only a kindness to bop effectively. I revere fish, actually, so I feel I have at least spiritual cred as a fisher.
Wed, 2010-08-04 12:24
#11
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Wed, 2010-08-04 14:30
#12
ebodyknows
I've tried traditional brain tanning. I started a thread on it a number of years ago to which nobody responded. Since then I've been involved in at least some part of the process with a cow, deer, mule deer, squirrels and a raccoon. I still haven't become interested in trapping...there is no shortage of roadkill around me which will just end up being incinerated by animal services, the cow was with some folks who had to move from their homestead and the deerskins were given to us by hunters and a deer farm who didn't really know what to do with the skins.
"Deerskins into buckskins" is the classic how-to guide on the topic(which happens to have been written by a vegetarian). I was able to read it at the library.
If you live in the GTA I can point you to a few different people who run hands on courses.
Or if you don't want to get dirty I can also point you to some folks who do natural tanning and make hand made clothes.
Wed, 2010-08-04 14:43
#13
Catchfire
I read that thread with interest at the time, but I guess it just didn't have universal appeal.
Wed, 2010-08-04 15:14
#14
Aw, Ripple, I wish you hadn't done that. You made a serious point, a point worth discussing. And if you delete, you make me look puzzling -- not that I'm not entirely capable of doing that on my own.
Thu, 2010-08-05 01:50
#15
RevolutionPlease
Thu, 2010-08-19 09:26
#16
A bull leapt into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring and ran amok, charging and trampling spectators and leaving 40 people injured, regional officials said Thursday.
Video showed the bull jumping several metres high out of the ring, clearing two barriers before landing in the stands and raising a panic as he lurched through the screaming crowd, charging and tossing everything he could.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/08/19/spain-bull-ring.html#ixzz0x3eR0gpb
Thu, 2010-08-26 19:21
#17
Thu, 2010-08-26 19:23
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