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Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7153643
01/25/21 11:50 AM
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Was given a gallon of rendered seal oil it makes the best marten/ fisher lure when spread on the trees. No more skunk lure for me to rub up against and come home smelling.

You should get 50$ a gallon.

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: Northof50] #7153665
01/25/21 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Northof50
Was given a gallon of rendered seal oil it makes the best marten/ fisher lure when spread on the trees. No more skunk lure for me to rub up against and come home smelling.

You should get 50$ a gallon.


It is an excellent stand alone lure or can be used as a base. As long as it is naturally rendered and not the filtered commercial stuff. I’m going to try making a k9 lure with some as a base this spring.

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7153783
01/25/21 01:58 PM
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I had a brother-in-law stationed in Newfoundland that brought a stuffed white one back when I was a kid. Kids all wanted to come to my house to see it. Then after I grew up and everybody tired of it, I left it upstairs in the the big crate it came in for a couple years and weevils or some kind of worms ate it up, lol.

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7153866
01/25/21 03:35 PM
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How about the degreaser solution in the car wash? I dont know just guessing. Did not realize they got that big, walrus's yes, but not seals......jk


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Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7153889
01/25/21 04:11 PM
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How do the Eskimo and Inuit do them ?


The real Wally
Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7153893
01/25/21 04:21 PM
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I can neither confirm nor deny that I have shot and skinned an animal such as a seal which is protected by the marine mammals protection act.

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: cbat] #7153898
01/25/21 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by cbat
How do the Eskimo and Inuit do them ?


You could try to contact Caribou on here (Chip Hailstone). His wife Agnes and daughters all have worked on seal skins on "Life Below Zero" and could no doubt pass along some tips.


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Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: BernieB.] #7153907
01/25/21 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by BernieB.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I have shot and skinned an animal such as a seal which is protected by the marine mammals protection act.


Being a fisherman I don’t have much love for them. And with a population of over 400000 just along our coast they most definitely should not be protected. I’m still working on my commercial license and once I finish my time to acquire that I plan to hunt them as hard as I can. Not that it will make any difference at this point.
If they looked like an alligator we could have a tv show about hunting them.

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7153926
01/25/21 04:53 PM
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Do you get to hunt the big ones in the spring you mentioned?

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: Yes sir] #7153930
01/25/21 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Yes sir
Do you get to hunt the big ones in the spring you mentioned?


Yes we do get a few weeks at them. They usually show up the first part of April.
Only allowed 6 a year on my personal license. They are almost too big to handle

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7154041
01/25/21 06:47 PM
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When I was younger,even though it was dangerous I always wanted to go out on the spring pack ice for whitecoats.never got the opportunity unfortunately.


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Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7154136
01/25/21 07:52 PM
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Looks like a tuna body, solid as heck!


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Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: novatrapper01] #7154216
01/25/21 08:34 PM
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Inthe early 1900s, there was a porpoise factory in Hatteras, NC. Their hide was used for ladies handbags and the flesh was processed for oil. A few bricks remain on the sound side where it once stood.

Bet they were oily also.

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: BernieB.] #7155564
01/26/21 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by BernieB.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I have shot and skinned an animal such as a seal which is protected by the marine mammals protection act.


Skip is that you? Don’t “poach” a pen deer but infer its ok and perhaps comical to poach a seal.

Re: Anyone tan a seal? [Re: Muskeg] #7155614
01/26/21 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Muskeg
Originally Posted by BernieB.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I have shot and skinned an animal such as a seal which is protected by the marine mammals protection act.


Skip is that you? Don’t “poach” a pen deer but infer its ok and perhaps comical to poach a seal.


A pen deer? not sure where you got that from. And the seal in question was in a remote area in the Bering sea. The circumstances surrounding the seals there and the situation are too complicated to explain to anyone who thinks a deer on a ranch in Texas is a pen deer.

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