Bunny!

[Shoemoo]

Got my crosscut rabbit hides in the mail! With 48 strips per pack, I see lots of bunny jigs in the future.

Already had a bunch of white and black, so I focused on colors.

 

[Fatman]

Was that the deal from JStockard??? If it is looks way better than I thought!!!

 

[BucktailJiger]

Bunny is fun to tie with . Got to get some Bunny Beau next

 

[Shoemoo]

Yup, I ordered the hides from JStockard.

One thing I've noticed about having a lot of something. It makes you more bold when it comes to experimenting. If you buy a jig in a package, you're more timid about throwing it into places where you might lose it because you're always thinking "I'll be out $X if I lose it" but if you can just make more you're more willing to take the chance.

Same with materials. If you have a lot of something, you're more willing to try different color combinations and new things.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

I noticed that you bought crosscuts, I see a lot of palmering in your future. I tie a lot of bunny jigs with saddle and cape hackle tails and put more of the money into the crosscuts. Now that the feather craze is supposedly over I won't feel as bad about using the hackle,most jigs I make use 4-6 feathers.

 

[Shoemoo]

Yup, I went with the crosscuts because I prefer palmering crosscuts over zonkers for bodies and tails on smaller jigs. I can buy half hides cut into zonkers at Sportsman's Warehouse for a little over $8. All of the local places only carry crosscuts in the four strip packages, so I figured I'd jump on the chance to buy some in bulk.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

Does Stockard take paypal ? I finally got the credit cards paid off and don't want to ever use them again. I was at Feathercraft last week and they had two-tone cotton candy and fleshy pink clearanced for $1 a bag,four strips per bag. I bought them all,43 bags in all. Maybe we can work a trade for some of those crosscuts.

 

[Fatman]

I have some but never tried tying with them yet.

 

[LedHed]

Wow - thats a lot of jigs sm!!

 

[Ron Don]

I think youre set for a while with those!

 

[Hawnjigs]

Lots of good hare days coming...

 

[Shoemoo]

Just a start. I discovered crosscut rabbit makes an awesome thread neck on roadrunners.

 

[StumpHunter]

Good looking bunny and does look like it will tye many of jigs. Those jigs you tied are nice and the bottom dark olive with the black head looks great!

 

[ScottV]

Great looking jigs. I love the way rabbit hair moves in the water. I got 4 rabbit hides from those folks also but mine are cut into zonker strips.

JJ- They do accept paypal.