Sporran makers

[scratchy]

I've been wondering if you work with customer supplied hides/pelts? I'll be going on a wild boar hunt soon, and may have a chance for an exotic goat/sheep(most likely Corsican). Is there any specific area of the hide that is better to work with than others, and how should the cape be prepared?

Thanks.

[Wompet]

I'm not a sporran maker, but if this an out-of-country hunt, make sure you know tha applicable US Fish and Wildlife and USDA import regulations for when you get back. It's never fun to make the trip, bag your limit, get a couple of nice trophies/hides, and then lose everything when you come back in.
Also, in some cases, USDA regs state that hides have to be treated a certain way in order to be enterable, so treatment may not entirely be your choice.

[scratchy]

This will be somewhere in Tennessee, but I have heard of a recent case of anthrax in Delaware or Connecticutt from untanned African hides...

[MacWage]

I've been wondering if you work with customer supplied hides/pelts? I'll be going on a wild boar hunt soon, and may have a chance for an exotic goat/sheep(most likely Corsican). Is there any specific area of the hide that is better to work with than others, and how should the cape be prepared?

Thanks.

This will be somewhere in Tennessee, but I have heard of a recent case of anthrax in Delaware or Connecticutt from untanned African hides...

OK, NOW I am curious!
WHERE are there wild boars and exotic sheep/goats for the hunting in TENNESSEE?

[James MacMillan]

OK, NOW I am curious!
WHERE are there wild boars and exotic sheep/goats for the hunting in TENNESSEE?

His backyard!!!

[MacWage]

His backyard!!!

Whose?

[scratchy]

OK, NOW I am curious!
WHERE are there wild boars and exotic sheep/goats for the hunting in TENNESSEE?

here there are piggies

His backyard!!!

[MacWage]

here there are piggies

Monterey, Tennessee
OK. THANKS!

[scratchy]

Uhhh....what's a gusset?

[James MacMillan]

Uhhh....what's a gusset?

Hortense and Guss got married early. They tried for years to have children. All efforts failed. They finally went to a baby making speciallist for treatments, and nine months later their son was born.

Hortense and Guss were so proud, that they named the baby boy Guss Junior. But all the cousins, just called him Gusset!