Old habits dealing with bison bulls
Goal: To give you old uses for bison bull hides to keep your efforts from being wasted creating something that did not happen.Quills suggested I start a new thread since the modern world is still...
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I am glad to hear you talk about the variables...as some tanners say.... all hides work pretty much the same way ....they are talking about deer usually of course ..but I think those variables you...
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I smoke with mostly cottonwood as was done in the location where I live. I know that because that is what grows here. I use sage in the lube to rub into the hides. Best sage is woman's sage has a...
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There is a lot of yucca down along the road below a cemetery about 3/4 of a mile down the road from me....road graders have spread it towards my place...over the years.Going to have to try yucca root....
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Yucca and sage are just a few plants known to be used for hidework across North America. There are more. While not a complete listing of native plant uses, this link will give many uses that one may...
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Good resource Billy ...thanks ...got thru the 67...but only about 100 of the other. more later. Quills
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Sketch by Wotah a Kiowa in prison. Could be a 2-3 year old bull or older bison cow.Feet positioning help keep bison from rolling over. Another way is to place front feet underit self kneeling.
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Very cool drawing....shows how they skinned it down the backbone...for easier handling of a large hide. Folks there are pretty dressed up to be butchering ..doncha think? Me I try to not get all...
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I can load this site up with references to the high use of two year old bison or younger.If you think Native folks used old bulls, they did. Tongue and glue. The rest is not bothered withunless...
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Yep...any goat , pig , bunny or chicken etc..Ive ever killed for the freezer has been a young one.I raised a couple of jersey bull calves for meat to....nothing wrong with it at all as long as its...
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Tongue slow roasted on coals, just take the tongue and lay it right there in a bed of them. Turns into something better than pulled pork in about an hour or more. Low heat is best. You can slice and...
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yep.... can't let anything go to waste...best made into sausage and smoked...Its why I pick up roadkill. Quills
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http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/34578.jpg
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Whose painting is that Billy? Catlin or Bodmer?? Perhaps...sure would have liked to have lived in those times...if I did I'd be dead by now....Quills
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The link is under the image. Alfred Jacob Miller is the artist.
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Here is one from of many from the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.Need to flesh and dehair, cut, lube with grease, and stretch out to dry.
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Sorry Billy did not click the link till you brought my attention to it. PS I am glad I do not have to cut up a old bull hide for rope....Quills
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I have to cut one this week. Will do it wet. You then tie or stake it tight and grease it. Will take images.Doing four square feet. Will leave hair on this example since it is used for wagon wheel...
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Wagon wheel covers??? Hmmmm... that's interesting.Are you going to start pushing a Red River cart? Yes be sure to take pictures.Ive got a chunk of rawhide upstairs that's got part of the hair on it...
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Nice backpack turned chair there. Bull is thicker than you need for snow shoes. But, I see from your stuff in the background in the first image, that you can poop anywhere and no one will see you! he he
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