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Offline Apex Predator

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Pig hoof tip overlays?
« on: March 12, 2009, 12:11:00 PM »
Anyone ever use the pet store variety chew toys for overlays?
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Offline Bert Frelink

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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 02:02:00 PM »
Apex,
I have not used the "pet store" variety, but have used Wild Boar as well as Moose hoofs and both worked just fine.
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Offline John Scifres

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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 03:15:00 PM »
They also leave a nice pig sty smell to your tips  :)   Seriously, all hooves stink when you cut them.  Domestic pig hooves really stink.
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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 03:54:00 PM »
Maybe it would be a good cover scent?  :)  It will be on my "Bloody Marsh" bow I am building, and be mainly for pig killin'.
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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2009, 04:06:00 PM »
Cant wait to see it Apex.

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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2009, 07:29:00 PM »
I have used them and they do stink when you work them.
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Offline ChristopherO

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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2009, 09:28:00 AM »
Funny you ask about such a thing:  The other evening I was out in the garage grinding down a deer hoof for an overlay.  I shot the deer last fall.  Anyway, I've found out that the two bone runs pretty much all the way.  Not much left over for an overlay if I took the bone out.  
I've got to rethink that material for the application.

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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2009, 09:29:00 AM »
Funny you ask about such a thing:  The other evening I was out in the garage grinding down a deer hoof for an overlay.  I shot the deer last fall.  Anyway, I've found out that the toe bone runs pretty much all the way.  Not much left over for an overlay if I took the bone out.  
I've got to rethink that material for the application.  Used Osage and deer bone instead.

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Re: Pig hoof tip overlays?
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2009, 11:42:00 AM »
I searched a didn't find any last night.  I guess I'm gonna have to kill a big one for the hooves!  I used cow bone instead, and it looks great against the cedar.
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