I've gotta get a safe, but they're so damn expensive. Waiting til black Friday/Christmas deals

Don't get a electric lock

Academy will have them like 40% off

Yeah I'd never lol

I don't like electric locks on anything

Even my van pissed me off the other day, hatch wouldn't open cuz dead battery

The one we have is eletric and a few months ago the pad gave out and got locked with 20 guns in it

I was raised to loathe electronics, I didn't even have a cell phone til about 8 years ago lol

If that... maybe more like 6

Aside from my van which is a hand-me-down from my gramps, all my vehicles are manual transmission, windows, hubs, etc lol

What's ur fav tax job from those pics I sent? I have trouble deciding between the European Mount giraffe complete with vertebrae, and the lion/zebra. Tho the alligator is pretty sweet too

Idk what kind of animal it is. The one next to the bobcat. I think a red fox.

Grey fox

@Meatball definitely the gator

Yeh I love the depth of that one, going after the fish

Reminds me of another of my favorite taxidermy jobs. World record largemouth bass from Lake Montgomery, Georgia in Phenix city. The bass is going after a brim bigger than my hand, and its mouth has room to fit more lol

I'll have to get a pic of that and share it

https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_5bf24acc-7c54-11eb-ab39-6b8b8d3cb475.html

Damn man you could dig a hole, buy 2,000 .22 lr and go have a good time there I guess. Plus make $6 per tail you turn in. Nice.

$6 a tail, where do I sign up

That is awesome

They should ask for head instead of tail

I like the Elk and the Alligator although the gator is pretty small (I’m a Florida boy and I’ve caught 15 footers while fishing)

Did you lose your lure or did fight for your lure

I have actually fought a couple for my lures (they were real small tho) and I did get it back from the small ones, but yeah for the big ones I lost my lures

Does anyone fly fish if so any tips

its been a hot minute, but yes. First tip: don't sit on your fly rod!! <:Teeth:798301808996384828>

What are you fishing for? I mostly fish for sunfish and bass. Here are some pictures of my favorite flies I like for sunfish.

for the worms in the first picture, my favorite has always been the brown worms tied with brown, olive, or red thread. for the second picture, the yellow fly is what I call a "mini-bully-spider." I tie it using fine dubbing of various colors using yellow/olive thread or, on occasion, black thread. the small green fly in the second photo is great for early spring. It is called a "green-caddis-nymph," and is an old classic that still works well imo.

the third pic is my main fly-box. It is set up for gills and bass, as that is what I typically go for.

Now this fly here is probably the best kept secret for fast-water bass fishing.

It is called a Llano bug, and as far as I am aware, you can not buy a proper one *anywhere*. I tie my own, and its a tricky thing to tie as you have to play around with different amounts of each material in order to get the buoyancy just right. I may upload a vid to yt sometime if anyone cares to know how I tie em, but there are one or two other vids that show how to tie a decent imitation of this.

for slower, deeper, or murkier water, I really love loose-crawdad imitations. I lost all my good ones, so I will have to tie some more to send a pic.

Last bit of advice I got is to tie your own flies. Its pricey up front, and may very well be pricey down the road if you into it to the degree some of my buddies have, but I find that I have saved hundreds of dollars on flies in just a few years. But the main reason to tie your own stuff is because you get to choose exactly what your flies look like, how they perform (buoyancy, keel, etc.), and best of all, you get to tie on *premium* hooks that only the most expensive, custom flies would ever come on.

here^ anything else I can help you with?

Oh, bro, if you take one thing a way from this hella long rant of mine, **please crush your hook barbs**. I recommend barbless hooks for everyone, but especially for fly-fishing because the barbs make it harder to set the hooks and harder to pull them out. Most flies have really small hooks, and trust me, you don't want to deal with a size 20 hook that is deep in a fish's throat.

it also makes it easier to pull hooks out of your own skin <:KEK:795742276549607456>

Aight, just whipped this up. This is a variation of the crawdads i like to tie. Black and white is also a killer combo. <:Dude:726878886411108474>

the rubber legs send out vibrations anytime it bumps the bottom of the pond/river, and the white maribou (the type of feathers) and olive rabbit fur pulsate to simulate a crawdad feeding.