sungazer wrote:Stix I see you leave the sun shade on the scope for night time shooting. Does it help keep out reflections?
Nice foxes are you going to tan the skins? I have just tanned a Roo skin using 4 parts Salt 2 parts Alum (pool foculant thanks to Oldbloke) and 1 part Oxacilic acid (Diggers Rust Removal) it has really worked well so far The skin has come out quite supple and seems to be tanned well. proof will be in time. I think it has come up better than using the Leders commercial product.
Unfortunately no...
I put it on because i get flare from the barrel with my new Olight, but it doesnt make a difference.
I leave it on for the dusk shooting to try stop the flare when the sun is low.
Bottom line though...the scope is crap...this one is the replacement of a faulty one that wouldnt track, & this one doesnt track.
They also flare like noones business, so are only good for daytime shooting, or spotlighting without a scope mounted torch.
Id like to do a couple of nice roos...i want to make a rifle bag out of them, with fur outer & inner...
...id make one out of foxes but fox skin is nowhere as thick as roo...(& ive got nowhere to take them on tags ATM
...although im on a few permits but hard to get out now...
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Yes im doing the furs...i think i bought home 8 or 10, plus 2 cats to do...
Ive just fleshed out a fox & big cat last night & put em in the mix...which is nearly same as yours--25 Alum & 40 Salt/ liter of water, enough to cover hide's in a bucket.
Im going outside to flesh out another 2 foxes, then pull a couple more out the freezer to salt them up...
What do you use as the permanent agent...?...does the oxalic acid work like the chrome does...?
Anyway...i use a chrome kit sungazer--works pretty well i think (apart from my lack of patience fleshing out the head--very hard to do).
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