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Offline Pat B

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2011, 09:50:13 pm »
Del, netiher sound very reliable to me.
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2011, 10:39:36 pm »
Quote from: okiecountryboy on March 12, 2011, 09:48:38 pm
To quote ELD's tag....Come on 1/20/2013!!!!! >:(!!!!

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Damn Ron...I didn't know anyone else even figured that one out.... ;D
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2011, 11:06:53 pm »
Strangest, maybe not, but best backed bow I ever saw was made by the bowyer that taught me, Barry Meyer.  He sinew backed an osage bow (oh, how daring), but then backed the bow with a single skin from a gaboon viper.  'Boons are one of the top 5 deadliest snakes in the world and not easy to come by.  He happened to have a contact at Reptile Gardens that saved the nasty critter for him.  

Their latin name kinda fits....Bitis gabonica.  
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2011, 11:36:30 pm »
JW, You really seem to have a thing for tha Gaboon Viper. They really aren't that hard to come by.  In the legal states you can pick up a baby for $75-125.  Spend a year feeding it up and there ya go ;)  Now the Rhino Viper....A lot like the gabby but way nicer looking! ;D

The coolest skin I have ever had I traded to James Parker and I haven't seen it yet, and I've asked him multiple times about it and never a reply ::)  I should have kept it...
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2011, 11:47:19 pm »
What's it gonna cost me for the vials of anti-venom?  That's IF there is any commercially available.  Oh, and what does it cost to get Life-Flighted out of Rapid City to Denver these days?  Yeah, sure, send me two of them nasties!!! 

I been looking at my 4 1/2 ft bullsnake lately....but she's done hundreds of classroom presentations and I ain't sure I'd survive the munchkin attack if they found out I did June-bug that way. 
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2011, 11:56:50 pm »
Years ago I took some shark catilage and built a steel press to compress it as it dried. Every few days I would tighten the bolts compresssing it more and more. Somewhere in ther middle of the project I gave up smoking pot and never finished it so can't say how it would have worked. Steve
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2011, 11:59:56 pm »
I used the leg of my wifes jeans last week  ;D  I hope she dont look for that pair.. ::)
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Offline NTD

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2011, 12:08:43 am »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on March 12, 2011, 11:47:19 pm
What's it gonna cost me for the vials of anti-venom?  That's IF there is any commercially available.  Oh, and what does it cost to get Life-Flighted out of Rapid City to Denver these days?  Yeah, sure, send me two of them nasties!!! 

I been looking at my 4 1/2 ft bullsnake lately....but she's done hundreds of classroom presentations and I ain't sure I'd survive the munchkin attack if they found out I did June-bug that way. 

Easy answer, don't get bit >:D  Or, as long as you don't tell the state of AZ you buy it and I'll raise it for you ;D
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2011, 12:09:32 am »
Quote from: Badger on March 12, 2011, 11:56:50 pm
Years ago I took some shark catilage and built a steel press to compress it as it dried. Every few days I would tighten the bolts compresssing it more and more. Somewhere in ther middle of the project I gave up smoking pot and never finished it so can't say how it would have worked. Steve

Steve that's freaking hilarious!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Offline Almostpighunter

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2011, 12:21:25 am »
@Badger: Finally got off the floor from the laughing fit and my eyes still haven't cleared. ROFL

I guess the strangest thing for me were the taxidermy rattlesnake heads of the "Evil Bow" I posted a while back. The cobra skinned one was unusual too but not as extreme.
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #25 on: March 13, 2011, 01:21:55 am »
Steve, see where that got ya!  :D  ::)
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #26 on: March 13, 2011, 10:26:43 am »
I have a neat little yellow eye-lash viper but at the rate he eats/grows I'll be dead before he'd be of usable length.  I have a friend who has offered be a monster sized Gaboon Viper, a couple cobras and some misc pacific rattlers but so far I haven't taken him up on it.

And I agree 110% on the Rhino Vipers...one of the few must have for me, one day!

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Offline aznboi3644

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2011, 03:33:40 pm »
Steve...I'd say its time to roll one up and finish up ur projects...no one likes quitters lol
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Offline okiecountryboy

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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #28 on: March 13, 2011, 06:36:45 pm »
Quote from: El Destructo on March 12, 2011, 10:39:36 pm
Quote from: okiecountryboy on March 12, 2011, 09:48:38 pm
To quote ELD's tag....Come on 1/20/2013!!!!! >:(!!!!

Ron

Damn Ron...I didn't know anyone else even figured that one out.... ;D

Figured it out!?!  The first time I saw it I thought we might be related. ;D ;D ;D

Ron
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Re: Strangest bow backings.
« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2011, 08:32:33 pm »
Quote from: okiecountryboy on March 12, 2011, 09:48:38 pm
Quote from: Del the cat on March 12, 2011, 12:47:02 pm
I have a fancy to try politician's tongues. Or mabybe their palms, but I figured they would be to greasey ;D.
Del

Not enough acetone or denatured alcohol in the world to get the grease off them kinda hides. ;D

To quote ELD's tag....Come on 1/20/2013!!!!! >:(!!!!

Ron
couldnt agree more, cant wait for that date to appear on the calendar ;D
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