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Author Topic: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???  (Read 1374 times)

Offline ethan

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2009, 07:08:00 AM »
As someone who has lived around them all my life, I wish I had a wharehouse FULL of them to send to you all!!!  :D
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Offline Ian johnson

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2009, 07:18:00 AM »
next time I kill a couple big ones this summer I'm gonna save them for bow backing
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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #22 on: January 26, 2009, 07:44:00 AM »
I never would have guessed they looked like that. I have seen a bunch of them at my dad's place in Texas, but they all looked kind of a dull charcoal gray, almost black. They are nasty SOB's for sure. I think they have the worst disposition of any snake there is. I'm glad we don't have them up here.

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Offline Swamp Pygmy

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #23 on: January 26, 2009, 11:32:00 AM »
When they are younger they have more pronounced stripes. They are harder to find with stripes as they get older.

This picture doesn't do it justice. It's very red colored and here it looks more leather colored.

 
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Offline crosseye

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2009, 11:36:00 AM »
i am usually not a snake killer, but i killed 4 in one day several years back while bluegill fishing around cypress trees...the buggers tried to get in the boat and were going crazy around the stringer of fish. i'll bet i saw 15 moccasins that day. they smelled SO SO SO fishy!  do the skins smell fishy, or does it go away after they are air dried?
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Offline hogdancer

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #25 on: January 26, 2009, 11:56:00 AM »
they are very musky smelling and with practise you can smell the snake before you see him, in my experiance they do not smell once skinned and dried.
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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2009, 01:06:00 PM »
The problem for me is that I would take my bow out in the yard and shoot it 6 times with my shotgun, just on general principal.

Don't ask me to be rational around the mention of cottonmouths.     ;)    They are a detestable embodyment of evil in an otherwise gracefull, though not always kind, wilderness.
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Offline Froggy

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #27 on: January 27, 2009, 07:02:00 AM »
Bear,
 Somehow I get the feeling that you don't care for the critter much....
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Offline RC

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #28 on: January 27, 2009, 10:09:00 AM »
You should be wading across a slew and see one coming. really bad feeling.RC
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Offline Ray Hammond

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #29 on: January 27, 2009, 10:23:00 AM »
I had one get after me in SC one time that was literally as big around as my upper arm...and I have some pretty big arms!

It was not pretty, but I did manage to evade the bugger. My bottom limb was in the water the whole time or I would have shot at him...but I think the brown trail I was leaving behind me finally put him off "the scent", so to speak!
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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #30 on: January 27, 2009, 01:14:00 PM »
Froggy,

I might have understated it a bit, but yes, you're correct. I grew up around these things and had many close calls, and have seen their aggresive nature first hand. My eco-conscience has limits, namely cottonmouths and most parasites. Ughhhhhhhh.
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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2009, 01:28:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Bear:
The problem for me is that I would take my bow out in the yard and shoot it 6 times with my shotgun, just on general principal.

 
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Offline bayoulongbowman

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #32 on: January 27, 2009, 01:28:00 PM »
Trust me they are alot nasty looking in my neck of the woods!!!!the only one I want would be on my bow , I hate snakes!!!!!!!!! :)
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Offline blind one

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #33 on: January 27, 2009, 01:36:00 PM »
My grandparents had one preserved in a big jar on their fireplace..Always thought it was gonna get us when we were kids..Still shiver thinking about it....Roy
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Offline broketooth

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #34 on: January 27, 2009, 02:23:00 PM »
do you dry snake skins the same way you do to other animal hides,i.e. pickling salt
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Offline broketooth

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #35 on: January 27, 2009, 02:25:00 PM »
ive had great success with rabbit ,squirrel,and deer hides the same way
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Offline Froggy

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #36 on: January 27, 2009, 03:14:00 PM »
makes me glad we don't have any around here...
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Offline doowop

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #37 on: January 27, 2009, 05:46:00 PM »
I would be afraid to pick my bow up!!!
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Offline Joseph

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2009, 06:04:00 AM »
Broketooth, you just air dry them, no salt needed.
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Offline Froggy

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Re: Any bows with Cottonmouth Skins ???
« Reply #39 on: February 07, 2009, 05:06:00 PM »
Got a Silvertip at Morrison as we speak of getting a set of Cottonmouth skins put on it. I should have it back by the end of next week hopefully. Will try to post some pics....

 Froggy
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