Outstanding Service!!! Conranch Hackle!

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Last Sunday while lamenting about my lack of hackle for tying the fly’s I like, I took an adventure to Conranch web site via the sponsors page here on FAOL.
After reading Liz and Denny’s articles, studying their web site and finding what I wanted, I emailed them.
In less than 2 hours I had a response in my inbox. I emailed back after I got up from a nap (hey, my second childhood, I need a nap).
Bang Pow and the materials were hand picked by Denny, packaged and ready to ship.
I got the most beautiful Furnace Cape, and I splurged and got a Cree pelt as well.
Gorgeous! Absolutely Gorgeous hackle!
Denny and Liz do business the way I do business, right now. And stunningly beautiful hackle!
Of course, no pictures/didn’t happen…
Here, drool… :wink:

I can’t recommend them highly enough! If you want the finest hackle, there is a ranch way up in Elk, Washington…

Denny also directed me to Al Campbell’s article here about how to protect these treasures from bugs.

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That is one fine looking bunch of feathers, all right. I’ve not done business with them myself (I have a many year’s supply of hackle right now and need to use some up before I can justify more spending to the finance committee:D) but I don’t think I have ever heard a negative word here or anywhere else about their product or their service.

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Great folks to deal with, wonderful feathers, and very competitive prices. I never buy very much at one time and always seem to have a bunch of dumb questions but they seem more than happy to spend the time talking with me and I have always been delighted with the feathers. Try some of their juvenile hen necks for tying soft hackles. You will have to beat the fish off with a stick - well the feathers at least are honest.

David

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Denny and Liz aim to please and have excellent feathers. I am just another of his satisfied customers.

Fatman

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VEE and I have been using the feathers Denny and Liz have for years and years. Always a satisfied customer. If you have a question, give Denny a call. Denny or Liz are always happy to talk feathers with you.

REE

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A couple of years back I bought two JV hen hackles from Conranch. Denny mailed the feathers out before I even wrote the check. He just stated “let the money and the feathers pass in the mail.” I’ll never forget that. When I need hackles they have my business.

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Tyrone,
You’re not suppose’ta tell. :roll:

I got two of the type of pest strips Al Campbell wrote of in his article. Different brand name, same ingredients.
One of the strips I’ve hung in a cabinet I am using for tying materials, the other is packaged as a “spare” in a drawer below unopened.
You just never know when they will “outlaw” something that works here. :wink:
I’m moving all of my vulnerable materials into that “dead zone” for bugs. The glass case allows folks to ask why I have dead birds on display? :rolleyes:
(As if the fly tying stuff on the desk isn’t enough of a clue?) :tieone:

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You just never know when they will “outlaw” something that works here

Haha! That reminds me of one time a few years ago…I was dating a girl that had a very blonde friend. I cant remember what the product was, but there was lead in it, and even here in PA, it carried the warning: This product contains lead, a material known in the state of California to cause (a string of maladies)."

She looked up at us, and I had to add, “But we’re in Pennsylvania, so its okay.”

She replied, “Really?”

And my girlfriend assured her, “Yeah, I mean, even just going over into Nevada does it. This far away, we’re fine. It has something to do with being so close to the ocean over there.”

She blinked, looked at each of us, then just muttered, “Hmm, that’s pretty cool.” And went on her merry way. :smiley:

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OK, This can’t be a high-jack cause Sonny brought it up…

Re: the Al Campbell pest strip thing…

Let me say first off it’s where I got the idea and I currently have two fresh ones unpacked sitting in my tying room and kitchen…since doing the one in the kitchen gnats which were an issue this time of year haven’t been seen for the two years I’ve put them there.

I will point out though that in the threads re: protecting our materials many many folks spoke against the strips …I specifically remember one discussion when I was defending/recommending them and mentioned Al using them…the response made me sit up and take notice…he said…yes but didn’t Al die of a brain tumor…
frankly, I had no response…I do still use them though…

Oh and I also cut some into smaller pieces and put them in containers that I consider especially at risk…

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Ducksterman,

A couple of years back I contacted the manufacturer who told me the unit was designed to be used in a space no smaller than a two-car garage and that it should not be hung where children and the elderly may be present without fresh air ventilation. Also, it should not be hung where food is present. I was told not to store my bbq in the garage with one as the carbon buildup captures the active ingredients and may release it while cooking.

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ROFL…

Very BLONDE indeed.

My favorite trick was to convince my daughter’s friends that they had their socks on the wrong feet. I’d be insistent, and would get them to change the socks around. Then tell them "doesn’t that feel better now (now that they are all stretched out to their foot size…). Then ask why their parents never told them the difference between a left and right sock. Cap it all off by NOT telling them how to tell the difference, as that’s the parents job: go ask your mom…

I’m such a cruel dad sometimes… :slight_smile: But the sock routine has proven itself to work on 3 different girls so far…

The big difference between girls and boys I guess… The boys could very well have their shoes on the wrong feet, and JUST NOT CARE…

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California… Land of Fruits and Nuts…
I happen to be a nut, myself. :lol: (Thought I’d clarify that right off…)
OK, what prompted me to say, “Before they outlaw the strips…” is,

I decided my front doors were beyond refinishing as natural wood anymore. The wife said I could paint them and she would be fine with that.
Well, I’m of the old school. We always painted with lead based paint in the house we grew up in. The inside was done every year, the outside every 3 years. Dad did the walls and sometimes the ceilings, us kids did all the doors and trim work. And it was done with gloss so it could have our sticky paw prints washed off. Lead based paint… We are all still very much alive, and healthy productive members of society.
Now, I know lead based paint’s are almost entirely outlawed and unavailable. Have been for decades, OK, fine. But I just wanted a pail of nice gloss paint for my entry doors and trim.
Gloss paint. You can’t buy gloss paint in Los Angelus County anymore. The AQMD (Air Quality Management District) has outlawed it. I can buy it in any other county around me, just not in L.A. County. :rolleyes:
So I settled for semi-gloss. I had to, unless I wanted to use spray cans. Now that makes sense doesn’t it? I can’t brush on gloss paint, but I can spray it into the air as over spray. And the little “artists” :confused: can spray it on anything that holds still long enough to “Tag”…

So I’ve learned that if I have something I like, something that works, I best rat hole some for when some do gooder bureaucrat decides what is best for me and my feathers. :roll:

And fact of the matter is, we are breathing in all the crap that comes out of the exaushts of our cars, trucks, buses, trains, and bar-b-ques. And brake dust by the ton…
Some folks just like to worry way too much.
But, they are entertaining to folks like me. In a morbid way. :stuck_out_tongue:

Now please excuse me, I need to go to the other county and get me a bucket of gloss paint for my doors. :wink: I’ll be back in 20 minutes… :lol:

And my tying supplies live in Dad’s old gun cabinet with the glass door and side panels. Can’t display the shootin irons in it anymore, they have to be in the safe (again bureaucrats). But I can store poisoned feathers there, so :stuck_out_tongue:

And the World goes round and round… :rolleyes:

Al died of a brain tumor, huh? Well, don’t question the use of the atom bomb to harold the nuclear age. Heaven forbid we look at something realistic, instead of a lowly pest strip.
Al died because it was his time. But God bless him, he left a legacy behind him. James as well. Someday we will all be dead, that is a fact.
But maybe some of the things we loved will be past on down, like fishin, and fly tyin, and a story or two…
Carried by our Sons, Daughters, and Grand Kids…
Are they going to say, “Grandpa used pest strips!”
Hell no. They are going to remember Grandpa took them fishin. :wink:

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I use mothballs myself. I used to use natural deterrents like cedar, cloves and basil until I had several capes infested with carpet beetles. Since using mothballs about 2 years ago, no bugs. :smiley: Most natural history museums use the flake form for protecting their collection from pests.

I have often thought about contacting the termite fumigation folks and asking of I could leave a couple of bins in a garage where they are fumigating.

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I use dryer sheets fabric softer dryer sheets, seems to work so far.
I left this out eralier, Denny’s Hackle is some of the very best I’v used, I find the barbs plentiful and the stems don’t twist on me like some name brand stuff I have, service has always been one on one, tell him what you want and it gets hand selected and sent very quickly if he has right then what “YOU” want…:slight_smile: