eskimo36
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Post by eskimo36 on Dec 14, 2019 7:29:09 GMT -5
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Post by Joe S. on Dec 14, 2019 9:41:53 GMT -5
Does having them stabilized warrant the higher cost? The ones I bought from Jantz were $30-40 for pieces large enough to do Bisley grips.
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Post by Robster on Dec 14, 2019 9:47:42 GMT -5
Wow!! That's a lot of money for blanks imho
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Post by eskimo36 on Dec 14, 2019 10:53:09 GMT -5
Does having them stabilized warrant the higher cost? The ones I bought from Jantz were $30-40 for pieces large enough to do Bisley grips. I’ve never seen bighorn blanks for $30-40, especially the black streaked ones. I need to check Jantz out. Curtis. |
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Post by Joe S. on Dec 14, 2019 10:55:09 GMT -5
May not have been bighorn but it was some kind of rams horn. Pretty sure it was in the $30-40 range. Don’t think I’d have paid more.
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Post by mike454 on Dec 14, 2019 11:11:10 GMT -5
Jantz is selling merino. Dall or big horn will command a big premium.
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Post by lscg on Dec 14, 2019 11:15:24 GMT -5
Jantz only sells Merino rams horn, beautiful but easily found. and stabilization would probably only add $20 to the cost of the blanks.
if you've ever wanted Bighorn grips i strongly suggest buying a set of these blanks and sending them off to a grip maker.
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Post by Joe S. on Dec 14, 2019 11:19:23 GMT -5
Gotcha. I was wondering what the difference was. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Post by bushog on Dec 14, 2019 15:57:42 GMT -5
That's about right price wise...
Rob will get $1K for a set finished and Zane's are getting close to that.
And...if that seems spendy don't even look at really nice musk ox!
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Post by foxtrapper on Dec 14, 2019 16:14:00 GMT -5
While we are on horn for grips. Reeder has a Cape buffalo ,full shoulder mount that he is selling for 1k or so. The African taxidermist sent him the wrong buffalo losing his. Don’t know how many grip sets or even ifs it’s cost effective to chop it up!
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Post by bushog on Dec 14, 2019 16:25:21 GMT -5
Wonder what the bosses on a buffalo look like cut up.
That's always concerned me about 3rd world dealings
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Post by rangersedge on Dec 14, 2019 22:44:54 GMT -5
About what could one anticipate the cost of getting a set of those grips finished to be?
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Post by lscg on Dec 15, 2019 19:20:17 GMT -5
About what could one anticipate the cost of getting a set of those grips finished to be?
would depend on the maker. usually when I work with customer supplied materials like wood or certain kinds of horn/antler I charge $125-$150 plus shipping.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Dec 15, 2019 19:27:36 GMT -5
While we are on horn for grips. Reeder has a Cape buffalo ,full shoulder mount that he is selling for 1k or so. The African taxidermist sent him the wrong buffalo losing his. Don’t know how many grip sets or even ifs it’s cost effective to chop it up! That sux,.....but I had a similar thing happen with my bison, taxidermist died and after two years of trying to run it down I gave up. Another taxidermy outfit called and said they had it and wanted my address to ship, when it arrived it was obviously not mine. Trapr |
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Post by lscg on Dec 15, 2019 19:28:05 GMT -5
Wonder what the bosses on a buffalo look like cut up. That's always concerned me about 3rd world dealings
I saw some on a knife once and it looked pretty similar to water buffalo horn. just a hair darker.
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