The Memory Isn't What It Used To Be

[BuzzH]

You only shot those because you were teleworking. Jokes everyone, jokes. Great work!

Wait until I take the fork in the road...

 

[INMT]

Wait until I take the fork in the road...

Oh Christ. The endangered species act will take on a new meaning. Help us all!!!

 

[BuzzH]

Oh Christ. The endangered species act will take on a new meaning. Help us all!!!

Yeah I can use all my "vacation" and "personal" leave for hunting...taking stupid to places it's never been.

 

[Maverick1]

One thing I would NOT recommend doing is putting them in a water, salt, & hydrogen peroxide mixture for several weeks in a row and then forget about them. It literally disintegrated my collection of elk ivories into small pebbles. Do not do that.

 

[Mica Man]

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I used to save them but now I just sell them to these guys between $40 to $50 a pop.

 

[tormenter]

I've got a big pile of them. I always wanted to find someone to make a nice hat band, but haven't got around to it. Let me know if any of you know of someone whom makes hat bands.

Thanks

 

[MS 9x56]

I wouldn't hunt with that guy again. mtmuley

I would and hope he was a great hunter. I can never get enough of tenderloins.

 

[HiMtnHntr]

I drill a hole in the root and hang them with some wire on the back of the skull.

 

[cgasner1]

Ivories are cool but I like my wall with tags from other states

 

[TheJason]

I leave them in the field.

 

[cgasner1]

I leave them in the field.

It’s about a coin toss for me and depends on the time I have to get things moving mostly

 

[bigsky2]

It always amazes me how you can dump out a pile of them and match up most of the sets because of the unique characteristics each set has.

 

[Addicting]

Why take them? I started to but found they were just laying around, collecting dust. Now, unless it’s something special they just stay in the field.

 

[BuzzH]

Why take them? I started to but found they were just laying around, collecting dust. Now, unless it’s something special they just stay in the field.

Why not take them?

 

[tormenter]

I leave them in the field.

I've been known to pull a few out from skulls by others - as long as its not to stinky!

 

[noharleyyet]

I glue em back in the euro mounts. Give the cow ivories to a crafter.

 

[hank4elk]

I take some, sometimes. Not all.
Have them scattered about in different places.
Think there are some in my Tacoma too.

 

[buffybr]

Why take them? I started to but found they were just laying around, collecting dust. Now, unless it’s something special they just stay in the field.

Years ago I was elk hunting with a buddy. We had split up to hunt for the day and met back at his car at the end of the day. On the drive home he asked where we should hunt the next day. I told him that I thought we should bring my horses back and pack out my bull.

I usually don't get blood above my wrists when dressing an elk, and I had wiped my hands clean with snow so my partner didn't believe that I had killed one. It wasn't until I showed him the freshly cut out ivories that he believed me.

I had earrings made for my wife out of one pair of ivories, and had another one in my wedding ring. I think that all of my other ivories I glued on this plaque. I wrote the year that I shot it on one ivory and the number of points or "C" for cow on the other one.

 

[Bullshot]

I have a couple in drawers, left a few in the woods. For those with handfuls, what do you intend to do or make with them? To me, they don’t seem too important to keep any more than a non-ivory tooth would be.

Speaking of tenderloins…. I once left one side in an antelope by accident as my buddy was helping me quarter up and I either assumed he had gotten it, or just maybe I got distracted. Anyway, I realized it the next day when re-packing the cooler and heading home. Took a lot not to go back 60 miles and see, but it had been too warm and too long and by then surely the coyotes had their meal. Put me in a pretty bad mood… drive 2000 miles to hunt then leave a tenderloin.