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  1. BilletHead
    Got ya covered.
  2. BilletHead
    You let me know what turkey feathers you want and if we have any luck, this spring I will fill you a sack!
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    No Amadou fancy patch for me. An elcheapo knock off phony shammy cut into many pieces and you will have patches for eons.
  4. BilletHead
    Yep, a quick dry on the drying patch and throw in the shake and bake bottle.
  5. BilletHead
    You always have your Frog Fanny to fall back on!
  6. BilletHead
    I bet a pickup and cast with or without a false cast will dry out the snowshoe fly, but it will not dry the marabou. Same with your dryer lint.
  7. BilletHead
    Two deals I want to interject. Is this the foot that your wife tried to dye? If so if there was anything coating the fur to help it float the chemicals would strip it. Ok Glen. Take a clump like tying a wing and leave it together. Drop this on the water. Let Easy like laying out a dry fly. Could the coarse kinky curly hair be trapping air bubbles adding to its buoyant properties? that as you know is why hackle floats correct? I have not dug my as @tjm says out my hare hair yet.
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    Whoo hoo well done Cody!
  9. BilletHead
    When I was a newly married young buck, I acted like a rabbit .
  10. BilletHead
    Yes, it is or was at one time and I bet it is still in practice. Rabbits with beagles comes to mind. We used to get several bowhunters together and have a couple standers on brush rows. The rest would walk the inside and outsides slowly looking for bunnies. Soon the driven rabbits would go out and run towards the outside walkers. The closer you got to the standers the more Chaos would show. Yes we killed rabbits and I have limited many times with archery equipment. It was a hoot!
  11. BilletHead
    Hares do not dig holes, Rabbits will and will connect holes to form a warren. Our native cottontail is an exception and will not burrow but hide in a form or under something. Sometimes they will use a hole in extreme cold during winter. Rabbits and hares are really not survival food. Yes, it will fill your belly but lacks essential fats. If you only eat rabbit, you will lose body weight.
  12. BilletHead
    They are in northern states and the northeast also JD.
  13. BilletHead
    No, they are not hares but bred over years to all kinds of genetic mutations like the dog you speak of.
  14. BilletHead
    For sure back feet no problem. Have you ever seen a snowshoe hair? I have out West and in Minnesota where grandpa lived. You can too once you see the size difference. Snowshoe Hare | National Wildlife Federation (nwf.org) A good picture of the feet size, Find me a cottontail with a foot size like this.
  15. BilletHead
    Back I was told. A grandpa thing. So many moons ago my grandpa living in Minnesota shot many snowshoes and he saved me one. He salted it. I remember how it felt. Waxy and oily. I as a kid messed with it, and it finally fell apart. I never trimmed it to see if the hair floated or not. For sure. I have a couple too. The hair is really course. Very different than cottontail or meat rabbit. I remember the dyed rabbit foot key chains from the five and dime.
  16. BilletHead
    They are good luck only if it is the left foot.
  17. BilletHead
    Yes, and really bad on livestock farmers. In March of 2021 You can get a permit here in Missouri to kill them. I know in Texas, Indiana and Oklahoma they could be killed by a permit. Did not know in Missouri so I looked it up. Missouri Farm Bureau Announces Black Vulture Depredation Permit (mofb.org)
  18. BilletHead
    Well, most likely the same reason we are being infiltrated with armadillo. They are becoming used to the cooler climate or that climate is becoming warmer. The planet has been in cycle swings for millions of years. May get warmer, may get cooler.
  19. BilletHead
    Ohh boy I can see it now. If you left it up to the beauty salon you would end up with old granny blue hair. Hoping sugar britches has some luck.
  20. BilletHead
    There is an eastern and western version. Spruce trees are what they need. I have seen them out west where everywhere you look you see one. I suppose like any hatch it takes a few to get the feed bag going. Choristoneura freemani - Wikipedia
  21. BilletHead
    Yes, it is. Seen it and when trout key in on them it's on.
  22. BilletHead
    Thanks for the offer but pass them on to a new tyer. I have some and they do make a nice wing on a caddis. Also, good to imitate the spruce moth hatch out west.
  23. BilletHead
    That is way too personal.
  24. BilletHead
    Maybe but you will have to bleach out first and I doubt it will be as white as you want. Besides the part about rabbit feet is the oil that helps it stay buoyant and bleach will kill that. As far as what the fish see in the difference of pure white and light tan will not make a hoot to them. BUT if you don't have faith in that color working you will not be happy. Just send them to me :).
  25. BilletHead
    Ok modern convince man, I have used river cane, shoots out of hazelnut. Gray dogwood and red osier to kill deer with stone points. As well as port orford cedar. All from an Osage self bow. Of course at 125 to 135 fps. Blazing fast 🤪. I wish I still could. Blake the Tanycomo Deck hand and guide just may get it done. I have passed the torch to him.
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