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Author Topic: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it  (Read 457 times)

Offline Mike Yancey

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Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« on: February 17, 2012, 09:18:00 AM »
I just got in a huge shipment of giant Boa's and Pythons. There is a thread on the Sponsor Classified on these snakes.
 These large boa's ane pythons make a nice snake backing but they will also serve as a rawhide backing as well. They are big enough to get more than one bow per snake, they are running 8 to 10' long.

 These two boas are going to Ed Scott.

 

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There has just been a new law passed putting the python on the endangered list. The one that is endangered is the Indian Python, these are Bermese and are out of Florida and not threatened but because of the trouble people have telling the difference all pythons are now on the list. The law just passes and the Boa's were not affected, but there will be 90 days that the meat and raw skins can be sold after the law goes into effect. It will still be legal to have the skins just not to sell the raw product that I get across state lines. The product that I sell is processed and in cases like this have been given longer to sell but once I sell all these that will be all there is.
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2012, 09:24:00 AM »
Ed is a lucky guy! Those are nice Mike!
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2012, 09:28:00 AM »
Big Skins..........  :scared:  

   I would be curious to see how they look on a bow.
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2012, 09:39:00 AM »
Wow!  Mike those are some really "Big" skins!!

Nice!!

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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2012, 10:16:00 AM »
So those skins are thick/tough enough to serve as rawhide as well?  A two-for-one sort of thing.  That is interesting.  

As a slightly-aside, I listened to an NPR segment about non-native constrictors causing some ecological havoc in the Florida swamps.  A guy might could arrange to go harvest some skins down there.
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2012, 10:16:00 AM »
Amazing!

Are pythons and boas an ecological issue in Florida?
Are there 'Gangers hunting them with the bow and arrow?

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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2012, 03:52:00 PM »
Mike I had a thread over the summer where I skinned one out and what an event.The skin is amazing looken.
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2012, 04:05:00 PM »


Here are some pythons and another boa. 3 of the pythons are sold but I have plenty more. The pythons will be around 10' each and should do 4 or more backings.

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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2012, 04:08:00 PM »
Mike, this is the one I did.

 
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2012, 08:12:00 PM »
Here's one with the stuffing still in it. "Baby", my wife's ball python.  

 
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2012, 08:19:00 PM »
It would be cool to get onestringer some pics of those to see if they were different than his "skins" that he offfers.
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2012, 10:03:00 PM »
Where are these snakes from?  Here or from a foreign supplier.   Where in the US do such snakes grow?
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2012, 10:21:00 PM »
According to Monster Quest they are all over the Florida swamps.

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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2012, 10:58:00 PM »
Wow, those could back a HUGE bow!   ;)
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2012, 11:09:00 PM »
Wow. Never thought they were in the US
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2012, 11:18:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Mike Mecredy:
Here's one with the stuffing still in it. "Baby", my wife's ball python.  

 
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2012, 11:41:00 PM »
I saw a series of pics from FLA the other day with a very large python that had eaten a whole deer. The biologist was disecting it.
 Nice skins, Mike. Those pythons and boas do have very tough skins.
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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2012, 11:50:00 PM »
While snakes are beneficial in their home range and should not be wiped out. We should all have have bow backings, quivers, what ever it takes to make it worth snake hunters to wipe the pythons out of Florida. Friends of mine that live down there see them all the time.

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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2012, 12:00:00 AM »
If my wife put one of those dad burn things in my bed I'd leave home and never look back. i just love snakes.   :rolleyes:

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Re: Rawhide with an attitude once these are gone thats it
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2012, 12:19:00 AM »
Baby's a pretty good python, she's not like those big ones you hear about running (or better slithering) amuck in Florida these days.  She'll only get about 48 inches long at the most.  With their average life span, she has about 38 more years until she'll die and I can back a bow.
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