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 Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 04:41 PM
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Just finished up with these freeze dried rattle snakes this week 
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Re: Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 04:42 PM
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Re: Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 04:45 PM
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I hate snakes, but those look dang good.
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Re: Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 05:55 PM
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DirtNapTET
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So you just form them in the position you want the mount in and freeze dry them?
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08/20/14 06:02 PM
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"It is the same boiling water that softens the rice, which hardens the egg." It's not always about the circumstances, but what you are made of....
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08/20/14 06:03 PM
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Re: Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 06:35 PM
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I could have some fun with those...
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08/20/14 06:56 PM
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Could you box one of those up for me and send it to txkiller.
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Re: Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 07:30 PM
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 .... Wonder what happens when they thaw out
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08/20/14 07:35 PM
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Re: Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 07:55 PM
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So you just form them in the position you want the mount in and freeze dry them? More or less, that is the process. The larger snakes have to be gutted and then stuffed with a filler and sewn back up but the smaller ones can go into the machine whole. They are positioned how I want them to turn out, then frozen before being placed into the freeze dry machine. Replacement eyes can be added before freeze drying depending on what they will be used for. The snakes in the picture will be used in bobcat and fox mounts here in my shop so they have the original eyes in them.
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08/20/14 07:56 PM
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.... Wonder what happens when they thaw out They come back to life extremely ticked off!
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Re: Rattle Bugs
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08/20/14 07:57 PM
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Could you box one of those up for me and send it to txkiller. For $125 I'll box one up and send it anywhere you want. BoBo already requested I have one sent to his house and to his office.
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08/20/14 09:09 PM
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.... Wonder what happens when they thaw out They come back to life extremely ticked off! this would make a GREAT youtube video I kinda want one to jack with people at the office
Last edited by catslayer; 08/20/14 09:10 PM.
Sombody smells like fried borritos...
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08/20/14 09:26 PM
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back.
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08/22/14 04:19 PM
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KG68
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Just wondering how you reattach their head?
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08/23/14 12:19 AM
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Looks better there then in the woods next to my stand.
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08/23/14 10:00 PM
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