What's On Your Workbench January 2023

5 sandhills and 4 big Canadas came in a couple days ago. Not enough room in the freezer for all of them whole, so it's skinning time and why not flesh them too.

 

You’re getting them done quick! They look great!

 

Great mount Brooke. Would those be considered a daily legal limit for down where your from?

 

Doesn't matter really awesome non the less. You do mounts like that and don't duck hunt? I was wrong for assuming you would have been an avid waterfowler.

 

This thing is kicking my butt. Still need to set eye lids, flight web, and groom groom groom

 

Beautiful bird. It's looking pretty good. In my opinion canary type birds are rough to get looking soft.

 

Imagine my surprise when while talking to Ted Wyenberg many years back I discovered he did not hunt waterfowl. Guy could mount a seriously good duck too. It sounds like you don't need another addiction Brooke so pass on trying waterfowl hunting. As was often heard on the TV show Monk " you'll thank me later"!

 

You know them deer gotta eat even on a rainy day. So why are you not out there in the rain hunting them!!

 

In Coastal Oregon. We hunt in the temperate rain forest. We go hiking in the woods with a gun on sunny days and do our serious hunting for our little black tailed deer during the rain. The more stormy and miserable it is out there, the better.

 

That's a hoss! Congrats. Ok Ok I'll give you a pass since your rainy day goofing off, in the shop, provides us with pictures to enjoy!

Great picture BTW

 

A true sportsman, or shall I say sports lady.

 

100% why I was told to turn down pinfeather birds .. cus it only take one to ruin a reputation .. I mount Pinfeather birds but if they dont turn out like I think it should they never leave my shop ... Thvat quil looks just like one i did last yr and it was loaded with pins head to tail , just mounted a lessor and the entire head and neck are pins no regular feathers ..but Its good enough it can go ... Sucks cus everything looks great but the head and neck ... its OK .. I hate spending a ton more time like on the lessor twice as much time as usual so Im charging for it ... Ive stared charging 100.00 extra for badly pined birds if i choose to work on them ... I have a beautiful euro that was pined up bad , no feather loss till I blow dried it .. I mounted it cus its for a good buddy but it lost so many feathers its garbage IMO so all that work for nothing ... Not even gonna charge him long as he dont tell who mounted it .. He wont just sucks his bird didn't turn out and its not like we see euros all the time out here .. Yup pinfeathers really suck ... rather never deal with them ... but thats a pipe dream .. Just when you think your getting better at pinfeathers you get the curve ball and it turns out like the turd it was when you got it ...

 

Nice buck!

When I bow hunted for about 10 years, we hunted early season (the month of September) for that reason. We had mid November (roughly) to mid December to hunt, the late season, so, I do understand why you wouldn't want to hunt in the rain. We usually hit the highest mountains with snow on them to have good blood tracking. We tracked several after it started raining and it was difficult but doable. The last 2 a lot of luck was involved, so we stopped hunting when it rained. We were older and wiser by then. Now, hunt with the rifle and it's during the one month season, which is October and it is usually a rainy month.