Hello: Anyone have any idea where I might get a natural black squirrel hide with tail.
I see lots of dyed but no naturals.....thanks for any help....jim
Natural Black Squirrel
Hello: Anyone have any idea where I might get a natural black squirrel hide with tail.
I see lots of dyed but no naturals.....thanks for any help....jim
gotta shoot em yourself. only been fortunate enough to shoot one of them though. their pretty rare around here compared to the leagues of grey squirrels.
I've never seen natural black squirrel for sale, I agree with DDRRedneck500,
you have to shoot them yourself or get them from someone who hunts.
They are common here in my neck of the woods, and I shot one just last week.
I saved the skin and tail. I salted the skin, and had them on the work bench in the garage. My kids left the garage door open, it rained, and the skin and tail got wet, so now it's ruined. I wasn't happy about that at all. It my fault for setting them on the bench so close to the door.
Jeremy
Never heard of a little water hurting a skin--First you should wash the skin to get the blood dirt etc out then BORAX IT. 20 mule team sold in grocery stores. I never use salt,that only adds more moisture. BILLOriginally Posted by jkurtz7
Well I haven't tossed the skin yet, thanks for the Borax tip. I'll dry the skin out and then use the Borax on it.
Gotta agree with Bill...shouldn't have hurt it...but we digress...I've been coveting some black squirrel...none around here where I am but they are where I have family....can't get them to "harvest" one for me...having said that...some of the prices I've seen above make me wonder why they would be worth that much vs a black rabbit???????
Oh, and a coincidence...just yesterday I saw a charcoal colored squirrel chasing away a red fox squirrel...never saw one around here...wonder what that was???? some sort of hybrid???.....sorry I digress again.....
Last edited by ducksterman; 11-15-2008 at 02:43 AM.
The skin I have would make for some nice nymphs. The hair is black of course with a smidgen of brown sprinkled in here and there. Very nice.
I prefer squirrel for nymphs, it's just so spikey and buggy looking.
As for the black squirrel it's self, they were introduced here in Ohio at Kent State University years ago. They have since spread out. I haven't seen a fox squirrel here in my yard in about 4 years. I'm seeing grey's, black's, and the little reds. The bad thing about the black squirrels is that they are messing up the grey squirrel gene pool, and in some areas it's almost all black squirrels now.
Last edited by jkurtz7; 11-15-2008 at 02:48 AM.
I may be missing something here, but..
Why do you have to have a 'natural black' squirrel skin?
Is it that much better than the dyed ones?
Just asking, don't use squirrel except for the tails....
Buddy
It Just Doesn't Matter....
I can remember long time ago when I was a kid. Black squirrels were very rare in our area. There was a small village approximately 20 - 25 miles away that had a few in a park there. Now they are everywhere. I had one in my backyard tonight. I can't help you with what you want, but maybe some squirrel hunter can.
Moscow hide and fur has them (hideandfur.com). They are great folks to do business with and have a wide variety of stuff you may not find very often.
Jim Smith
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