I like them. I try to make as much of my own stuff as I can. I have a Siberian Husky named Cody (where my user name comes from)and in the spring he blows his hair out in just massive balls. I wrestled him down one night and brushed a grocery bag full of hair and twisted in my hands to make strands of yarn and ran several pieces through my string and cut the ends and started shooting. Ha after several face fulls of hair they finally settled in. They are short but really thick and do a great job. Yeah people laugh and make fun when I tell them they are hair from my dog but oh well I like them. Anything you can make yourself in my opinion has a higher value than anything store bought and is well worth being made fun of a little. But yours do look better than mine. haha

Guys, what happens to the fur when it gets wet? I once made some silencers from a scrap of mink fur I got for free, figuring that being a water animal, the oils in the fur would keep it from getting soggy. Wrong! It instantly went for attractive, very effective silencers to soggy mopheads that flung water like crazy when the bow was shot. I hope you have better luck. Even “waterproof” fur, I’m thinking — stuff that won’t wild and glob when wet — still will hold a lot of water that will blast off when shot. Hope I’m wrong. 😕

Snuffy wrote: Guys, what happens to the fur when it gets wet?

Yeah the same thing happens with the wool yarn type silencers but usually if it is raining that much I’m back at the house. 😉

Hey Chris those “Possum Puffs” look great!

Duncan

You might try ‘DryFly’ fishermen use it to make flies float. Or the natural oil ducks use to waterproof their feathers.

Mark.

Have any of you tried to give a husky a bath? Its like trying to wash a 60 pound duck. hahaha. But really they shed water off pretty easy actually. I don’t know what the differance is between them and other dogs but I can pour a bucket of water on him and it just beads off. I have to grab him and lay him down in the water and let him soak for a little bit to get him wet. Its pretty impressive actually. I’ve also got a set of muskox on my string to and they get wet before my dogs hairs but normally I just flip the string a little to throw it off

I quietly pluck my string to remove water from my silencers but if it is really set in I’m back at the house.

Yeah I’m right there with you. If its raining hard enough for me to be worried about silencers getting wet, I’ll be worrying about it from the couch. haha.. I’m more worried about my arrow feathers getting wet then my silencers anyway

Cody, All I can think of now is you wrestling with a 60 duck, I would pay to see that:D

Mark.