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Offline toms22

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Elk Shead
« on: June 30, 2009, 05:19:35 pm »
I have a big elk shed that I got in Wy. . Well the shed made a bopper. the shed is arount 2 or 2 1/2" I was wondering if I can make a bopper out of it. Any comments would be helpful.
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: Elk Shead
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 05:21:54 pm »
Elk works, but isn't nearly as heavy and solid as moose or whitetail antler. Use the Burr area for the striking surface (it's usually solid) and it'll work until you wear it down into the porous part.
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Offline Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive

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Re: Elk Shead
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 05:37:35 pm »
elk is the only bopper material i have, you do wear throughit some, but i keep spinning it to different strike areas and it wears pretty evenly. I have pretty good luck with it. - Ryan
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Offline cowboy

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Re: Elk Shead
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2009, 05:56:04 pm »
I sure wouldn't hesitate to try one if I had it. Only thing I've ever read about it was in Waldorf's book and like Hillbilly said - it's the softer of the antlers on this continent.
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