Made this quiver for a flintlock turkey gun

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dhaverstick
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Made this quiver for a flintlock turkey gun

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I just finished this Lakota style quiver for my good friend, John Pruitt, in Spring City, Tennessee. He's been hinting around at wanting one for a while now and I finally had the time to make one for him. Besides that, John just finished up my new flintlock turkey gun with the Colerain jug choked barrel and he thought the quiver and 4 dozen homemade cookies were suitable payment for his time and services. Both items should pass each other in the mail this week.

The body of this quiver is made from elk leather and the yellow trim is deer. The arrowheads are made from cane toad skin and the brown band of leather at the mouth is tanned carp hide. I burned the petroglyphs onto pieces of deer hide and then sewed them on. That idea was inspired by the shirts Mike Yancey is now selling at his Pine Hollow Longbows website. The strap is made from New Zealand red deer hide and I carved the buttons from deer antler. Everything was sewn by hand using artificial sinew.

I should get my new shootin' iron Friday and I plan to have it broken in on a squirrel or turkey some time Saturday.

Darren

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Beautiful craftsmanship as always, Darren! Good luck with the new rock lock!
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Nice! Tanned Carp & Toad hide; Wow!

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Very pretty!
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That's awsome! Never knew you could tan a toad lol or carp for that matter.

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For those of you that are interested, here are a couple of photos of turkey gun I made the quiver and cookies for. I received it Friday, extracted it from the 6 miles of bubble wrap and tape it was encased in, and immediately ran to the woods to try it out. Two shots later I had two dead squirrels. That turkey choke did a number on the first one so I held off on the second one so it didn't take the full load of pellets. It's fall turkey season here in Missouri and I hope to kill one of them birds in the near future.

I sent John the barrel and the large Siler lock kit and he did the rest. He made most of the furniture and carved the stock out of a piece of walnut he had laying around. His signature as of late is putting the Osage orange trim on the gun. It really makes it look sharp! The entire project took him less than a month to complete.
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Here is a link to a short video that shows more detail about the gun: https://youtu.be/EeYPYVinDjE

Mr. Pruitt is an accomplished bowyer and gunsmith and can make you a one-of-a-kind item with a minimal investment of money and time. He didn't have any business cards so I designed one up for him and had them printed. I think they suit him to a tee.
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Well, now...that saying about "two in the hand" applies to squirrels as well! Nice job and gorgeous smokepole!
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That is awesome Darren! I LOVE that gun! Ive never been around a front stuffer scatter gun. Ive always shot rifles, pistols, and ol revolvers. Makes me wonder why I never did the shotguns....????? Im jealous!
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Shadowhntr wrote:That is awesome Darren! I LOVE that gun! Ive never been around a front stuffer scatter gun. Ive always shot rifles, pistols, and ol revolvers. Makes me wonder why I never did the shotguns....????? Im jealous!
John can make one for you in short order. He'll even help you pick out the pieces if you need him to. Consider it an early Christmas present to yourself!

I can't say enough good things about that Colerain turkey barrel. I'd put the pattern it throws up against any modern turkey gun at 25 yards.

Darren

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25 yards is all a feller needs. The more I think about it, the more appealing its sounding!
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