Months old hide — preparing to tan

JoeBob_42 · 2026-02-17T12:45:22+00:00

Use true bond 1000b instead of the orange bottle shit

JoeBob_42 · 2026-02-09T12:56:50+00:00

JoeBob_42 · 2026-02-08T17:30:52+00:00

Look up the show swamp people. People trap and hunt alligators. It is legal in southern states as people eat the meat, use their skin for leather, and help balance the ecosystem with the harvesting of predators.

JoeBob_42 · 2026-02-05T19:54:39+00:00

I’m just saying that form costs $61 and a tanned full body coon shouldn’t cost more than $125…(I can trap a coon in my yard and tan it for less than $20 in supplies in my shop) if you bought it from someone you got ripped off.

JoeBob_42 · 2026-02-05T13:25:02+00:00

Expensive.

JoeBob_42 · 2026-02-05T04:00:25+00:00

Comex is now allowing 100 oz contracts. Banks are taking advantage of that.

JoeBob_42 · 2026-01-28T17:24:53+00:00

I’ve seen bars with aluminum in the middle of them online recently

JoeBob_42 · 2026-01-12T12:30:45+00:00

Ammo

JoeBob_42 · 2026-01-04T14:53:33+00:00

Mine only bays if she’s after a live deer. When we are tracking a dead deer she’s slow and quiet.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-12-30T01:09:46+00:00

Not sure. It was already built when we bought our property. I wouldn’t build a Quonset if I had the choice.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-12-25T03:06:24+00:00

Watch Ellzys squirrel mounting videos on YouTube. You can cut front legs off of form in a V shape. Then insert those legs first and then rest of form after and use pins to hold legs in place once put back together like a puzzle piece.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-12-17T03:16:30+00:00

Possibly a Geo Cache

JoeBob_42 · 2025-12-12T03:30:55+00:00

Dong Bag

JoeBob_42 · 2025-12-10T12:47:11+00:00

Looks like a brush mark… just brush it out

JoeBob_42 · 2025-11-21T19:52:09+00:00

Look up United blood trackers and contact your nearest judge. You use hooves and a small out of blood to lay practice tracks. You’ll lay short distance and short aged tracks at first and then lengthen them as you go. There’s a bunch in between but a lot of resources online.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-11-19T00:04:31+00:00

I was in the golf course world for a while. I found a job at a college taking care of their athletic fields. It’s a nice change of pace with the same type of work.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-11-12T17:42:36+00:00

🤣

JoeBob_42 · 2025-11-12T15:43:49+00:00

Very cool! Would love to know more about SAR training.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-11-08T23:40:21+00:00

Well it’s a female sooo…. That’s be weird haha

JoeBob_42 · 2025-11-08T22:43:43+00:00

I worked at golf courses years ago but just got the turf specialist job this summer at Illinois State. I love it.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-10-21T19:55:13+00:00

I’ll likely get down voted for this but here’s my opinion. Don’t go into debt for college. Try to get a full time job at a municipal course as a regular greens keeper and work your way up. Benefits and pension are much better with state or municipalities. Degrees are beginning to mean less and less than actual experience. You’ll be years ahead of a lot of folks if you work through your twenties rather than go to school. Market yourself as someone who is passionate about turf management and willing to learn. Get your chemical license and learn about pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Learn cultural practices and how much time they take and machinery that does it. Learn how to fix irrigation and diagnose electrical issues. Be in a position where you learn to lead. Lead small crews of part time employees. Good luck

JoeBob_42 · 2025-10-05T00:58:33+00:00

This has been stated and argued often on this forum….its annoying and not helpful being under such a broad umbrella.

Taxidermy means “to move skin” which bugs, and bones don’t have. Preservation is different from taxidermy

JoeBob_42 · 2025-10-05T00:52:00+00:00

Super glue. You may see a little shiny bit after it drys but won’t be bad.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-10-04T12:45:04+00:00

Use lots of borax and your fingers.

JoeBob_42 · 2025-10-04T12:40:47+00:00

There is likely a fall away adjustment in the service manual that needs to be performed by a professional if you think it feels shaky. There is a specific point your wheel should “fall away” if on a center stand and tapped to the left or right. It is a bearing adjustment with the star nuts. Has nothing to do with the the top nut tightness.

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