Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: bowsandroses on February 01, 2012, 02:33:42 am
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O.K. I just had a long horn beef buttered and he has real nice horns so I kept the head. My question is what is the best way to get the horns loose? Cut them off and scrape out the core? Boil head and horns till they come loose? Rap them to reduce weathering and set out back to let nature loosen them? The horns are about 20" a side, Ive never messed with this before so any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you Hugh
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I boiled some a while back,the outer layer will slip right off, worked very well for me. Much easier than I tought. :)
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One thing I use to do is go to the local slaughter house and they would give me the horns cut. I would take the horns home and throw them up on the roof 6 mts laterthey where dried out (S. Louisiana in the summer is HOT) get the horns down an rap them on a 2x4 and the "marrow" just popped out then you can scrap the horn sand and pumice it to a nice shine. If you are going to make a drinking horn make sure to clean and seal the inside of the horn. Horn also makes nnice spoons and shot glasses. The shards and ect can be cut and shaped for making horned notches.
Jeanette
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I cut the last few off using piano wire as a saw. Then just smacked them on the work bench a couple of times and the bone core popped out.
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I see that you just had him buttered, so they ought to slip off real easy ::), sorry couldn't pass that up ;).
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Thanks for the help folks greatly appreciated.
Mullet thanks took me a minute but ha! ha! good catch how'bouts butchered :laugh:
To think I have recently passed colledge writing :o
Hugh
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I wish I had the problem of getting the cores out of cow horns. Can't find raw horn anywhere in western South Dakota.
I even posted on a muzzleloader site that I would return a finished powder horn to anyone sending me a pair of raw horns. Never got a single response.
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I'll take you up on that deal. I have two American Bison horns and cow horns.
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Boy this Mullet guy just won't quit being the hero! >:D :laugh:
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Plus the guy gets to drive them really cool air boats...the flatbottomed skiffs with the big ol' V8 hooked up to a airplane propeller.
IF I grow up I wanna be just like Uncle Mullet!
And he runs over pigs, don't forget that! He's just all kinds of cool.
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Yep! that settles it he's my new hero O:) But I don't wanna grow up >:D
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Note in my previous post the phrase, "IF I grow up..." >:D
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You guys are killin' me ::) ;D.
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uncle mullet, can i borrow your airboat
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It's a long drive south for you. :)
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thats ok, i should be there sometime tomorrow if i leave now
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Eddie,i just want to run over a pig with the airboat.is that too much to ask?
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hey, thats what i wanted too ;D
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talk Eddie into it,and we'll make a trip out of it.
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Hey wait a minute all swing east we can car pool. Boy mullet your boat sounds fun, I'll put a fish'n rig on one'a my bows and see if I can pick up the crips. Immagine the look on the first game officers face when he asks what we're fish'n for. >:D Who doggie that be a leg slapper 8)
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Well the boats going to be working the next two weeks. But I know plenty of people with Airboats. A lot of the ranchers on the Kissimmee River put pipe about 3" under the water to keep airboats off there property. You can run them two or three hundred yards on pasture grass and throw a dog out, grab a hog and head back to the river. The problem is, dumb a$$'s have stupid, untrained, pit bulls that don't know the difference between a hog and High Dollar bull.