Say it ain't so!
02-28-2011, 06:23 PM
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tuscaloosa AL
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Say it ain't so!
Like the rest of you I'm dying for season to start. Was getting my gear out and ready and decided to look at my beards and spurs, for motivation, you know how it is. When I picked up one of my beards it fell into pieces!!!!! What happened? I lost about 50 beards I've been saving for years! Any one else ever had this happen?
02-28-2011, 08:25 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Alabama
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Never had any beards fall apart but my mom threw out a shoebox with about 10 beards and some spurs in it when I was in high school years ago. She also chunked my very first bird's fan and beard that was in a walmart sack in the freezer....that was a cool move. I used to collect squirrel tails when I was a kid and kept them in a shoebox....why is it that boys always keep things in shoeboxes?....Anyways I found that box about 5 years ago when my parents moved and picked up one of the tails and it fell apart like your beards did. Had about 20 tail bones and a pile of hair. Sorry to hear about your beards bud. But hey, at least you still got the spurs....hopefully.
03-01-2011, 02:37 AM
#5
Typical Buck
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LOL! Thanks, some of your horror stories are helping....a little! I guess it was bugs or something, but man those things are hard to come by! I do still have all my spurs, they dont take up as much room in my box. Hahaha
03-01-2011, 12:05 PM
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Hair stumps?
My method - I cut as much skin as I can off and then place the meat end in a cup of dry borax for about a month or so. Then flake off the excess borax and glue in my shot hell housing.
I have had no problems with bugs but it is not a bad Idea to spray a light mist of House and Garden Insecticide. Or spray inside a plastic bag and then insert your beards. that is even better yer.
I killed bugs for a living at one time.
JW
My method - I cut as much skin as I can off and then place the meat end in a cup of dry borax for about a month or so. Then flake off the excess borax and glue in my shot hell housing.
I have had no problems with bugs but it is not a bad Idea to spray a light mist of House and Garden Insecticide. Or spray inside a plastic bag and then insert your beards. that is even better yer.
I killed bugs for a living at one time.
JW
03-01-2011, 01:01 PM
#10
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Tuscaloosa AL
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Haha. Yea, thats all thats showing coming from out of the glue, little stubble! All I got left is some old turkey skin thats hard as a rock, and a garage floor that looks like whats under the barbers chair!!