It is quite an awesome gift. With two bows my good friend Jon and I spent 2+ hours shooting together. It was a blast.I also had some time to do some tracking around the area. I found a heavily used dear trail. Right before the trail exited into open area, I found a kill. I determined it to be a rabbit on account of finding the cottontail at the kill site. There was also a big patch of torn off skin left behind. Little did I know at the time that this was a foreshadowing of what was to come on Christmas day. I looked for a long time on several trails but I could not find any tracks besides deer. In the end I had to assume that the predator was a coyote. I know they are in the area and my mom said she heard one a few nights before.
On my way to church Christmas morning, there was a roadkill rabbit a few houses down the road from my parents' house. It was easy to tell that the kill happened that morning. After church I picked it up. Last night I skinned it. The skin is so thin that I ripped it in several places. I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish tanning it.
As you can see, I wasn't able to get all the fat off of it yet.
Stay tuned. My next post will be an update of the progress of my bow.
4 comments:
cool!
what was done with the carcass?
make me some gloves.
if you didn't use a self-made knife you are a puss.
Why no detail of the bow graphics, and the back story?
"I can make it on my own"
gross. this is the reason we're not dating anymore.
you're too freakin wierd.
>8^}
Yes, THIS is the reason. ;)
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