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Author Topic: Buckskins?  (Read 1868 times)

Offline prairie dog

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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2015, 07:32:39 PM »
I made leggings from an elk hide and they are too heavy.  If I make any more skins, they will be deer or antelope. 
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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2015, 08:13:15 PM »
I like it all.
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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2015, 09:49:10 AM »
Here's the wife and I in our Sunday skins, I'm wearin my elk skin frock



This is the Frock again with leggin's an breech clout in a painting by Marian Anderson for the National Wild Turkey Federation. She did the painting from a photograph. That's my fowler in the bow of my birch bark canoe but the turkey was taken with the bow an arraw. The title of the print, "The Longhunter"

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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2015, 10:15:40 AM »
What's your opinion of wearing buckskins Ron? Comfortable, or not?
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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2015, 10:42:24 AM »
Yes, they're very comfortable in my opinion. Even in the heat of summer people would ask, "aren't you hot in those buckskins?", I tell them no, the skins actually insulated my body from the heat.

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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2015, 11:02:37 AM »
Ok, good deal bud.

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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2016, 04:17:11 PM »
Muley - I have 30 or so hides that I got from a local processor - Had like 50 but they got wet somehow and had some deterioration - so I just chucked them but I would check with processors in your area and see what they get.

You will need 6-8 hides depending on your size and the size of the hides - to make a full set 3 for pants and 3-4 for jacket/frock.
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Re: Buckskins?
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2016, 01:19:09 PM »
I'm gonna stick with Carhart!!
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