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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: jturner on May 10, 2007, 01:10:21 am

Title: snake skins
Post by: jturner on May 10, 2007, 01:10:21 am

I have been seeing alot of watersnakes and think they would look good on a bow. How do i prepare them? Someone said to remove the scales is this nessesary? And how?

    Jake

Title: Re: snake skins
Post by: Justin Snyder on May 10, 2007, 01:16:42 am

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,2210.0.html
Read through this, there are a couple of links there too.  Mickey's page has a lot of good info. Justin

Title: Re: snake skins
Post by: Pappy on May 11, 2007, 07:36:47 am

Just skin them and scrape off the meat on the inside and put them on or dry them out and put them on later.I rub the scales of when I put them on.If you dry them out you will need to wet them before you put them on.They skin real easy and leave very little meat on the inside.Just be gentle they are fragile. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: snake skins
Post by: Pappy on May 11, 2007, 07:43:32 am

Here you go.I do a lot of snakes.
   Pappy

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Title: Re: snake skins
Post by: Dano on May 11, 2007, 09:49:50 am

Now that's the way I like ta see copperheads. ;D

Title: Re: snake skins
Post by: Lost Arra on May 11, 2007, 09:57:00 am

Right on Dano. The only good copperhead is a skinned copperhead.
I don't usually kill snakes except copperheads.
Their camo is just too good and it's easy to get dangerously close without knowing it.

Title: Re: snake skins
Post by: Pappy on May 11, 2007, 10:46:10 am

Lost arra I don't kill many either,it is aginst the law in Tn.and I never break the law :)
but I have a good friend that works for the road dept. and they kill them when cutting the road side and if they ant to messed up he brings them to me.
   Pappy

Title: Re: snake skins
Post by: jturner on May 16, 2007, 01:35:19 am

Thanks guys. Those links helped alot. I was wondering how to scale a snake.
                                                           
                                                                      Jake