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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Froggy on January 25, 2009, 05:50:00 PM
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Sure would like to see some Cottonmouth Skin Limbed bows. And anybody have a clue where you can get a pair other than in the woods. In my parts, there not any to be had.
Thanks
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I'd like to see as well. I'd also like to get some. Best looking in my opinion, then copperhead.
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They are supposed to look awesome with the scales off, but I have never seen them on a bow. I think I will kill a few this year to try.
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I think Chris Ward has one backed with Cottonmouth skins . I remember seeing pics. It was beautiful.RC
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Apex,
Whats the chance of getting a pair from you ??
Sure appreciate it.
Lanier
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Search for a post by hogdancer about his new Morrison. He had Bob put Cottonmouths on his limbs and they looked great.
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The problem is the small pretty ones don't keep their color.
The larger ones are okay but don't stand out very much.
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if you want cottonmouths i can get all you want, some fat ones too. here's an interesting fact about cotton mouths, the can strike while submurged. i wouldn't have beleived it , but one day while fishing in a local creek i saw one come to shore with a small flounder in its mouth. by the way spring time would be the time i can aquire them
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http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=066840
Here is the link to the pics of the cottonmouth skinned bow...Mike
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That's a fine lookin bow.
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Yeah, I like them, always have. Dont have any up here though...
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(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/hogdancer/4%20sale/09bows4sale018.jpg)
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I shoot lots of them down here, guess I should start saving them for bow backing
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Ian, I lived in your neck of the woods most of my life and the cottonmouths in La. don't look like this, much darker and less color.
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Thomas,
Your'e absolutely killing me, that is still probably the best looking skinned bow yet !!!
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thats what I was thinking, I have only seen one cottonmouth that looked like the ones you guys talk about, the ones here dont have much color to them
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Ian, I think they would still look good.
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Ian,
they only show color when you remove the scales after applying the skins to the bow back.
I've seen some that were red looking under the scales...absolutely gorgeous skins.
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Absolutely stunning skins!
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Nice skins but they are one creepy snake...
We used to find them in the neighborhood sometimes when I lived south of Tulsa.
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As someone who has lived around them all my life, I wish I had a wharehouse FULL of them to send to you all!!! :D
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next time I kill a couple big ones this summer I'm gonna save them for bow backing
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I never would have guessed they looked like that. I have seen a bunch of them at my dad's place in Texas, but they all looked kind of a dull charcoal gray, almost black. They are nasty SOB's for sure. I think they have the worst disposition of any snake there is. I'm glad we don't have them up here.
Oops, almost forgot to mention, that is one sweet looking bow!
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When they are younger they have more pronounced stripes. They are harder to find with stripes as they get older.
This picture doesn't do it justice. It's very red colored and here it looks more leather colored.
(http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/qq252/SwampPygmy/babycotton600x450.jpg)
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i am usually not a snake killer, but i killed 4 in one day several years back while bluegill fishing around cypress trees...the buggers tried to get in the boat and were going crazy around the stringer of fish. i'll bet i saw 15 moccasins that day. they smelled SO SO SO fishy! do the skins smell fishy, or does it go away after they are air dried?
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they are very musky smelling and with practise you can smell the snake before you see him, in my experiance they do not smell once skinned and dried.
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The problem for me is that I would take my bow out in the yard and shoot it 6 times with my shotgun, just on general principal.
Don't ask me to be rational around the mention of cottonmouths. ;) They are a detestable embodyment of evil in an otherwise gracefull, though not always kind, wilderness.
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Bear,
Somehow I get the feeling that you don't care for the critter much....
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You should be wading across a slew and see one coming. really bad feeling.RC
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I had one get after me in SC one time that was literally as big around as my upper arm...and I have some pretty big arms!
It was not pretty, but I did manage to evade the bugger. My bottom limb was in the water the whole time or I would have shot at him...but I think the brown trail I was leaving behind me finally put him off "the scent", so to speak!
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Froggy,
I might have understated it a bit, but yes, you're correct. I grew up around these things and had many close calls, and have seen their aggresive nature first hand. My eco-conscience has limits, namely cottonmouths and most parasites. Ughhhhhhhh.
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Originally posted by Bear:
The problem for me is that I would take my bow out in the yard and shoot it 6 times with my shotgun, just on general principal.
Now that's funny - I don't care who you are! :biglaugh:
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Trust me they are alot nasty looking in my neck of the woods!!!!the only one I want would be on my bow , I hate snakes!!!!!!!!! :)
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My grandparents had one preserved in a big jar on their fireplace..Always thought it was gonna get us when we were kids..Still shiver thinking about it....Roy
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do you dry snake skins the same way you do to other animal hides,i.e. pickling salt
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ive had great success with rabbit ,squirrel,and deer hides the same way
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makes me glad we don't have any around here...
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I would be afraid to pick my bow up!!!
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Broketooth, you just air dry them, no salt needed.
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Got a Silvertip at Morrison as we speak of getting a set of Cottonmouth skins put on it. I should have it back by the end of next week hopefully. Will try to post some pics....
Froggy
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Call me obsessed but I have been considering buying a couple of live ball pythons for their skins.I would also eat them after skinning.Is that wrong??????? :knothead:
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The cottonmouth subspecies from Florida tends to keep its stripes better into adulthood
Lucas