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need hides tanned

spec.4spec.4 Member Posts: 897 ✭✭✭
edited October 2001 in General Discussion
Ok, I am looking for company out there that tanned deers hides with the hair on that is not going to brake me. I shot a doe and when I got up and went down there to field dress her, I found a fawn next to her with the back bone hit by my bullet. I did not see the fawn, but one shot, two clean kills, made my day and I want the hides to remember that day, because I got them with my first black powder rifle. Any way, is there a company that I can send them to without going thur a taxidermy? Thanks for your help.
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  • ysacresysacres Member Posts: 294 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You might try, Moscow Hide & Fur1760 N Polk , Moscow ID. 83843 1-208-882-0601They did a cow hide for me a few years ago, Good luck.
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  • REBJrREBJr Member Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My Dad had a recipie that worked really well: take one handful of leather belt Add one smarta$$ ( read-mine) Stroke vigorously every batch he made came out tanned as hell.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Hey Reb that sounds familiar for some reason.
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Didn't Rembrandt have a recipe somewhat like that for new leather slings? Only I think his involved protestors... I invited him down here to SoKal, but the blighter never RSVP'd...
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  • ironsitesironsites Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to tan my own hides and it isn't that hard, just time consuming. Make sure the hides are packed in salt and after a week set the hair by soaking in sulphuric acid (1-1/2 oz. per 5 gallon) for at least a week. Neutrelize the acid with 1 lb. baking soda (in 5 gallon) for 1 hr. Scrape the skin down to the flesh, wash in clean water twice. You can get bark tanning powder from a taxidermist (some are brown-I like the bluish color). Using directions-soak the hide in this for maybe 1-2 weeks. Wash again- tack up the hide to dry. Then work the hide pulling stretching until it is soft. Oil the hide with neatsfoot oil. *Nevermind- it is too much work- find someone to do it for you!
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  • justincasejustincase Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's a handy dandy leather tanning kit, and releated supplies, sold at you local Tandy Leather crafts shop.
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  • ironsitesironsites Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I tried those Tandy kits. They give you boric acid to cure the hide-doesn't work as well and is slow. The end is a poorer grade hide. And is exspensive. Maybe they are better now a s I haven't used the Tandy kit for 15 years.
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  • timberbeasttimberbeast Member Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    W.B. Place and Co. , Hartford, WI. I don't know if they have a website, but probably. They do a great job, but if it ain't frozen, get about 5 lbs of salt on it quick!!!!
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