Quote Originally Posted by Peter C. View Post
Wow, great information. I was obviously wrongly informed back in the 60's.

Being unable to treat a skin myself, the animal would probably be rotting by the time I found someone to do it and if not it would be a very expensive sporran after paying someone to skin and cure the skin and then a sporran maker to custom make a sporran.

So probably not for me, but thanks for the information Tom.

Peter
Hi Peter--
I checked with my local taxidermist and he said to skin and tan a critter the size of a badger would be about $25- $35. If you supply the hide, the cost of a sporran shouldn't be much-- if any-- more than the cost of a sporran where the sporran maker supplied the hide.

Hope this causes you to head out to the garage, hop in the family Buick, and head out into the wilds of The Volunteer State hunting for a road-kill-in-waiting critter to be turned into a sporran.