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Title: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Mike Yancey on May 04, 2010, 08:57:00 AM
(http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac73/mikeyancey/bigsnake.jpg)

Ed Scott @ Owl Bows wanted some different snakes for his show bows this year so we fixed him up. We have a few more of these big ones that will make great backing.
Mike
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: rastaman on May 04, 2010, 09:00:00 AM
:scared:  What the heck is that Mike?
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: string bean on May 04, 2010, 09:18:00 AM
Where's the big snake at?  LOL
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Dave Bowers on May 04, 2010, 09:20:00 AM
HOLY MOLY!!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: BCWV on May 04, 2010, 09:23:00 AM
That looks more like siding for my house than backing for my bow!
  :D
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: walkabout on May 04, 2010, 09:32:00 AM
haha thats either the best photoshop pic ive ever seen or some kind of python skin. definitly not a pattern you see alot on bows.
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Lamey on May 04, 2010, 09:41:00 AM
thats gonna be a BIG bow!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Shawn Rackley on May 04, 2010, 11:08:00 AM
Burmese Python
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: b.glass on May 04, 2010, 11:38:00 AM
Just how tall are you Mike?  ;)  . It will take a wide bow to see the pattern with that skin!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Hud on May 04, 2010, 11:39:00 AM
African Python. If you hunt in Florida you may find one, according to some of the news reports they did not all die in the last freeze.
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Ragnarok Forge on May 04, 2010, 11:40:00 AM
If they live in Florida, they will be all over the south sooner or later.  I think we need to start an annual Trad Gang Python hunt in Florida to help out.
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Mike Yancey on May 04, 2010, 11:42:00 AM
I'm standing next to a 10' door of the shop. It will back several bows!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: 2treks on May 04, 2010, 12:03:00 PM
Man, I am liking Michigan more and more everyday.
How'dyou come buy that Mike? hunting at the zoo?
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Chuck
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: BRITTMAN on May 04, 2010, 02:51:00 PM
:eek:    :eek:    :eek:
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Ssamac on May 04, 2010, 04:44:00 PM
That would definitely depress my hunting or 3D pleasure. Do they bite or squeeze?

sam
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: allanburden on May 04, 2010, 05:40:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Ssamac:
Do they bite or squeeze? sam
At that size, does it really matter?   :eek:    :eek:    :eek:  That would definitely be a very unique pattern to see on a bow though!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Plumber on May 04, 2010, 06:50:00 PM
is that thing mounted on a bow right now. whats the draw lenth lol.
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Stiks-n-Strings on May 04, 2010, 07:08:00 PM
Paul Bunyan is back and Mikes building him bow LOL
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: timmy c on May 04, 2010, 07:18:00 PM
Best kind of snake there is A DEAD ONE!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Keefer on May 04, 2010, 08:00:00 PM
Mike'
 Now you know that is a 8' door and not no 10'! Who you trying to kid...  :laughing:
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Sam McMichael on May 04, 2010, 09:19:00 PM
8' or 10' - who cares? That's a damn big snake. He wouldn't have to bite or squeeze, because a heart attack would take me out!

Instead of going to Florida, can I come up North and shoot with you guys?

We need some good close up pics, when you get that big boy onto some bows.
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Ssamac on May 04, 2010, 10:56:00 PM
Come up to Illinois. We don't have big fellas like that. Just some king snakes and moccasins. Here and there a rattler. Can deal wiht those but prefer not to

sam
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: James on laptop on May 05, 2010, 08:17:00 AM
If I ever saw a snake when hunting that big it would not need to bite or squeeze to kill me.My heart would shut down before he could get close to me!  :scared:
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: doug g on May 05, 2010, 08:23:00 AM
Huh and to think I don't like garter snakes!  :eek:
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: KumaSan on May 05, 2010, 08:23:00 AM
Isn't the skin a little thick for limb backing?
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: SpankyNeal on May 05, 2010, 01:13:00 PM
That should be some awesome looking bows! I have always thought that Anaconda skin would look great on a bow - especially a green futurewood Bear!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: adkmountainken on May 05, 2010, 03:48:00 PM
Sam,
   come on up to NY hunt but beware we have the biggest, ugliest, nastiest, slippery, crooked snake there is. its called the political tax snake and it will not stop untill it squeezes every last nickle out of ya!
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: Ssamac on May 05, 2010, 04:51:00 PM
I'll take you up on that Ken. I thought it was the NYC Mayorsnake, however.

I used to live in Carmel and remember some fairly large rattlers in the woods here and there. Nothing like a python. Only thing close to a python seemed to be the County Assessor Snake. I fixed that problem by moving out to rural Illinos. Never looked back.

We have some pretty nice whitetail deer here too. And very few snakes. Maybe the Chicagosnake.

Thanks
sam
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: K.S.TRAPPER on May 06, 2010, 06:47:00 AM
Any close up picks of that skin Mike  :bigsmyl:  

Looks like a good one Bud, What kind hard to tell in the pick.

Tracy
Title: Re: Big Snakes @ Pine Hollow
Post by: David Sapp on May 06, 2010, 08:27:00 AM
Hey Mike-
If I bought that skin, would you happen to have a matching one for my upper limb also?

Thanks!
David


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