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it will be mid July at the earliest before i can get to the the Brookie fishing, over 200% percent snow pack this year.

love me some bass, those are going to be tasty i can tell from here!!! I'm going Monday morning ice is finally gone around the edges I'm told, No Bass this high up but its time for the Browns to spawn.

man now I'm hungry!!

Nuggets? man its so good that if you rubbed a piece on your forehead your tongue would beat your brains out trying to lick it off.

That is a good video Pastor. thank you!!

looks like you got a plan!!!! That aluminum is pretty easy to work down with a file also so you can shape it to suit yourself.

It is very worth posting you did great on that butterfly maybe some light tooling to create some shape to the body. Hardest thing there is on a dad is seeing his little girl in trouble, hang in there man, your her rock.

i treat mine with a coat of nfo then Feibings golden mink oil. So far two a half years on my dogs and no problems.

lol besides the lake 30 miles away we have seagulls in two places the McDonalds parking lot and the city dump. tells a lot about the food at mc D's, Heck yea i can make a rue and I've ate plenty of them little furry tails. They are tiny here compared to the ones in your world though it takes about five to get a decent meal. Funny story, years ago me and the wife were fishing on the bank of the lake. the wife likes to use cheese balls and its really good on trout. well she was munching on some cheetos and got this brain fart that they may be good trout bait too so out comes the hook a nice fat cheeto is put on and as she casts it out. it no sooner hit the water than here comes a seagull diving at top speed LOL my wife got this look of OH SH*T why didnt i think this would happen look in her eyes and started reeling like heck. Luckily the cheeto pulled off just as the gull hit it and swooped it away.

that one looks good too my friend. most folks around here buy the Judge for snakes so maybe not as off topic as it seems lol

lol in this case the crap is going to be squirrel so I'm good with that. poor guy prolly never felt a thang.

not what i pictured from a knife maker. interesting design. I take it you may have limited tools for wood working or metal so... I would do this get two pieces of wood of some type about 3/8ths " thick glue them to the sides of the metal and shape them and the metal with a file to a shape pleasing to you and your hand then wrap them with flat leather strap or flat paracord. You pull out the inside of the paracord to make it flat. You could even make the handle interior out leather if you have no wood.

those stitches sure pop man that is fine looking. Nice grips too btw.

that's a good idea !! I have a canvas Sioux lodge, teepee, I haven't set up in years but We would tie strings to the lodge poles to divert the water and drip it off where it did no harm to our belongings.

yea but here is no breast or thighs lol just backs. I'm sorry too Frodo for parting from the topic.

Interesting indeed Fred I never knew that. fringe could have started life as a multipurpose thing. if you think about it does add a lot of extra surface area for evaporation. I haven't worn or used enough leather clothes to really know what use they could have originated from i guess. Maybe a i should make me a huntin shirt and do some research this fall lol. Hmmm i wonder if fringe on wool would help now that is a material that wicks down as it dries. My daugther could knit me some fringe on my woolies.

yes it would get tight enough if its the right shape of handle. i cant see your handle to say which would work the best, just giving you some ideas to get started with. saying how you get it to stay on is going to be the hard part without knowing the shape. is it teardrop shaped and flat on the sides or just rectangular?

you can also wrap it in round leather or paracord is always good.

use thin veg tan and you can wrap it like a bicycle handle bar. I added the link for some ideas on how you might attach it and the different styles that you can use. https://blog.walnutstudiolo.com/2020/01/15/diy-leather-wraps-on-anything-using-our-bicycle-bar-wraps/

kind of, a series of interconnected buttons made from something similar to finger nail or maybe horn except very thin and see thru, the noise is made due to the loose connections between each button, they are hollow and empty and act as a amplifier of the noise. They did use them in rituals but a person cant shake them fast enough to rattle believe me I've tried. The older the snake the more buttons on the tail, they are added every time the snake sheds it skin.

yes! they have muscle movement for quite a while. It is practice, around here anyway, to cut off their head and bury it so an animal or person doesn't get bit by it. It will bite and release its venom for a long time without being attached.

Nice work and welcome to the forum.

good luck and don't lay it in the hot sun.

start with the point its a 45 degree angle.

Fringe was an American native thing from what i 've read and seen of them in museums I feel they were an embellishment mostly. Native Americans did like to have nice things and their clothes were as much a status symbol as ours are now. They tied hair to them put beads on them and even dyed them. I also feel they probably helped break up the human outline so an asset to hunting in them. I'm sure they may wick some of the moisture away but not much although I have not found any definite proof of exactly why they used it. If any of you folks are ever in CODY visit the museum, one the finest on western American history both native and not, plan on a two day visit!