Wild game/varmint clothing questions

[jonmyrlebailey]

Hello. Have any hunters here made or had made any articles of clothing from any North American critters they have harvested in the wilds with a gun?

Articles of clothing can mean: hats, boots, gloves, coats, vests, jackets, parkas, slippers or shoes.


Please share here the animal species you may have shot yourself and made (or had commercially made) into apparel for yourselves, your wives or others.

What specific items have been made of the critters you have personally shot yourself?

Please also share any businesses you know of personally here in America that can fashion a hunter's quarry into any of various items of clothing and/or footwear.

I am considering taking up sport hunting/varminting as a hobby and I am wondering what the potential for making clothing of animals is.

For example, who can I pay here in America to make me a coyote or bobcat coat from the skins I might harvest myself?

Who might I hire to make boots or other leather goods from my own harvested moose's hide? Is it even practical to consider a hunter's moosehide for purposes such as this? Are any artcles made from Bighorn sheep hide even worth considering? What is the MODERN (not Indian or frontiersman) clothing potential for a deer's or elk's hide?

One might not want to merely harvest critters for meat or taxidermy mounts alone.

I'd hate to kill an animal and have it go to waste.