Moose skinning Nessie dressed in Beaver Tail

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Here's my new nessie for Moose hunting season. Blade is sawmill blade, handle is black walnut from the area I live in. Handle is 4 1/4, blade is 4 1/2 around the big curve. I dicked around with the edge for days, grinding and re grinding till it works the way I wanted it to. Big hawk like convex edge for skinning and chopping the hip and leg joints and a great kindling, tent stake chopper.
The sheath is Beaver rawhide over 6 oz veggie tan, the stuff is bullet proof. Took me a week to degrease.
The hawk haft is the same walnut I used on the nessie. Thanks for looking.

Best regards

Robin

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What a great looking set.....Great work....Really like the beaver sheath. Thanks for showing !
 
Fantastic Robin! I love Nessies and yours is great. The beaver sheath makes it a set that makes me envious. I want one! Love the hawk as well. Anxious to hear how it works on moose this fall. Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to get drawn for moose here in Colorado. Miss those steaks.

Howard
 
Thanks Dusty and Howard
It's pretty tough to get a tag up here too, they give out mainly Calf tags. There's a big Cow with a Calf hanging around my land so we'll see what happens. The past few years has been good for Moose up here, actually better than Deer. The Moose tend to run the Deer off. Hopefully my Son in law will get one this year so I can try out the new nessie. ;-))
I LOVE Moose meat. Want to try bottleing it like they do in Newfoundland.

Best regards

Robin
 
Bottleing moose meat? I have never heard of that before. How does it taste? I've eaten steaks, yumm, roasts, moose burger, and moose sausage. but can not imagine bottled moose. Let me know how it goes when your son-in-law gets his moose.

Howard
 
Hey Howard
Bottled/canned Moose is easy. Most folks in NFLD just cut the meat into bite sized pieces, fill the canning jar with meat and add a teaspoon of pork fat cubed small, some add salt pork, some add onions too. Seal the jar and put in a big pot of water to cover the bottles, boil for 3 hours keeping the bottles covered. It turns out very tender and tasty. Some people use a pressure cooker. When you open a bottle you can fry it up to warm with onions etc, add a little water to make gravy. Yummmmm ;-))

Best regards

Robin
 
I have eaten canned caribou, beef, pork, and chicken. I don't see why moose wouldn't be great. I know people that can venison and say it is great. I'll have to try some. Thanks for the info and methods used.

Howard
 
that is some beautiful work. good luck with the moose hunting.
we canned almost a whole bear a few years ago. we just added a little salt to each jar. fried it up and made gravy as described above. delicious...
 
theevilmike said:
Very nice Robin, the sheath turned out great

mike
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Hey Bro
It's probably the plainest looking sheath I've ever made, keep looking at it and thinking about what would look good for decoration. The Beaver tail is so different I think it stands on it's own but may still add a Black Bear claw and maybe some of those tiny brass tacks. I guess you have lots of quiet around the house during the day since everyone is back to school.

See ya soon

R
 
Oh ya, lots of quiet here now, ive been on a reorganizing binge getting reay to do some reno
Im lookin forward to next visit

mike
 
Robin,

I love it. That nessie and that beaver tail...right on the money! The hawk too.

Good work, Friend.

Matt
 
Robin, that set looks like it came out of the 1850 Hudson Bay catalog, awesome job. I like the plain pouch sheath. Very PC and utilitarian just like George “Nessmuk” Sears himself. I must be making me one of them...
I understand a new car baits Moose pretty well.......Randy
 
Hey Robin, could we get a close up picture of that beautiful sheath?, the texture on that bibber tail is just wonderful.
 
Matt, thanks Bro.
Randy, I think George would like it. Beaver tail leather just seems to fit a nessmuk, my favourite style of fixed blade.
Edwin, coming right up.

R
 
Here you go Edwin. The macro isn't working well on my camera, but you can see the texture. A trapper friend of mine sold me 6 tails so I have a bit. Even though he opened them and cleaned them there's still a ton of work to get them ready. They are greasy critters. I may tan a couple but that's even more work. ;-)))

R


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Robin, if I may, how are you de-greasing?...........Randy

Brother Edwood, glad you got out of the big apple.....
 
Randy. I spoke to a few good ol boys at the trappers convention I went to a week ago. The all pretty much said the same thing, I packed it in salt for a few days, then soaked it for a few days in heavily salted water, still oily as hell, so I packed the wet hide in salt for a couple of days, then scrubbed it with a brush and dish detergent, then dried it. Still a bit oily but doesn't smell like beaver oil anymore, nasty sticky stuff.
The next step would be tanning fluid. I was thinking of trying a soak in heavily steeped black tea. After tanning you have to "break" the hide by rolling. It makes very soft leather but quite a pain in the ass. The rawhide is nails and for what I make I kinda like it hard.

R
 
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