Taihape Sports and Outdoors has got some roaring horns in from a young fella making them.
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Taihape Sports and Outdoors has got some roaring horns in from a young fella making them.
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what is he using cow horns ?? now dont get me wrong a good cow horn is something to keep but a 10 in (26cm ) piece of 50 mm alkathene pipe is as good as you can get - sandpaper where ya gob goes drill hole fit a lanyard- sits down shirt nicely and sounds exactly right - ( must be 50 mm ) some cow horns are to big and the noise idigits can produce with it puts stags off ` they are just to bass to damn bloody loud especially with idjits who persist in constantly roaringQuote:
Originally Posted by PillowDribbler
Shit, my hands work well too !! LolQuote:
Originally Posted by Barry the hunter
yup have used my hands probably more than anything else but the alkathene is just so much more realistic
They look good.
yes they do look good but its like a fiddle or trumpet what do they sound like - give it a go -you may have to take to it with a file and open it up a bit more - sometimes with cow horn roaring horns they need thinning down inside and to do that needs some clever thinking as to how one thins it out inside - chainsaw files work - but the other thing I have used is a sanding belt a coarse one and cut it into strips and pull that thru repeatedly turning at the same time - some of the ones pictured look to me like they may be very thin mouth end and could need opening up - just my experience - I have done quite a few for mates - but get a good one - and lifetime roaring horn - to be passed on - but then again 10 inches of 50 mm alkathene water pipe leaves most of them for dead in quality tone lol lol lol -
Yeah but cow horns are waaay cooler than alkathene pipe.:thumbsup:
a 1.25ltr coke bottle with both ends removed or poweraid bottle with bum cut off it work rather well too...good on him for providing real cow horn jobbies. getting harder and harder to find a decent sized one these days.
in saying that...if anyone is traveling between fairlie and geraldine..keep eyes peeled as top first hill out of geraldine..there are some Texas longhorns often beside the road..must have 3-4 FEET long horns out each side. some massive stags in same paddocks too including a few white reds (should they be called pinks??)
yes a good one is trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Chur Bay
White Reds are Dutch Reds
Don't know why
Just are
having done a number for mates consider this - a stags wind pipe is over an inch wide and mouth open his roaring equipment is impressive - so looking at the offering of cow horns in the link some stand out some no would need some cutting of and thinning and tuning - far right no just narrows down to much needs some cutting of and opening up - middle again a long one to narrow - 3 short ones yes could be a go - bottom left looks good bottom right looks goodQuote:
Originally Posted by Chur Bay
there is a family park here in New Plymouth have a herd of white reds - they insist on calling them Danish deer - sorry to me they are just line bred albino red - one can find no evidence they are a special Danish red deerQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
I believe back in Robin Hood times they were refered to as the heart beast/hart beast
the ones yo usee will have come from peel forest estate down here..they have selectively bred them for a decade or more..what was once a very rare sight is now common enough.
[QUOTE=Micky Duck;1538526]I believe back in Robin Hood times they were refered to as the heart beast/hart beast
the ones yo usee will have come from peel forest estate down here..they have selectively bred them for a decade or more..what was once a very rare sight is now common enough.[/QUOTE
here ya go Mickey Duck ya learn something stupid every day but I like this kind of history
Hunting the Hart, a picture from Turbervile, copied from La Venerie de Jaques du Fouilloux, 16th Century
The word hart is an old alternative word for "stag" (from Old English heorot, "deer" – compare with modern Dutch hert and Swedish/Norwegian hjort, also "deer").
Specifically, the word "hart" was used of a red deer stag more than five years old. Inmedieval hunting terms, a stag in its first year was called a "calf" or "calfe", in its second a "brocket", in its third a "spayed", "spade", or "spayard", in its fourth a "staggerd" or "staggard", and in its fifth a "stag", or a "great stag".[1][2] To be a "hart" was its fully mature state. A lord would want to hunt not just any deer, but a mature stag in good condition, partly for the extra meat and fat it would carry, but also for prestige. Hence a hart could be designated "a hart of grease", (a fat stag), "a hart of ten", (a stag with ten points on its antlers) or "a royal hart" (a stag which had been hunted by a royal personage).[3][4] A stag which was old enough to be hunted was called a "warrantable" stag.
The hart was a "beast of venery" representing the most prestigious form of hunting, as distinct from lesser "beasts of the chase", and "beasts of warren", the last of which were considered virtually as being vermin. The membership of these different classes varies somewhat, according to which period, and which writer, is being considered, but the red deer is always in the first class, the fox hardly being regarded at all.[5] Like the fallow deer buck and the wild boar, the hart was normally sought out or "harboured" by a "limer", or bloodhound hunting on a leash, which would track it from its droppings or footprints to where it was browsing.[6] The huntsman would then report back to his lord and the hunting party would come bringing a pack ofraches. These scent hounds would "unharbour" the hart and chase it on its hot scent until it was brought to bay.[1]
The word hart is not now widely used, but Shakespeare makes several references (for example in Twelfth Night), punning on the homophones "hart" and "heart". The word is also used several times in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, when Bilbo Baggins and company pass through Mirkwood Forest. "The White Hart", a personal emblem of Richard II, and "The Red Hart" remain common English pubnames. The county Hertfordshire (along with Hertford, its county town, Hartford, its twin town in Connecticut) and the village of Hartford, near Northwich, in Cheshire) is thought to be named after a place where deer forded a watercourse. There is also the district of Hart inHampshire and the villages of Hartfield at the edge of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex and Hart Common on the outskirts ofWesthoughton, in Greater Manchester. Whinfell Forest once contained a landmark tree called Harthorn.[7] The surnames Hart andHartley ("wood of the hart") also derive from the animal
The Graf Boys had a vid of making their own. A bloke in Hamilton made up a few and we got our hands on one. It is very realistic. Many hunters have eyed it up. Made out of fibreglass. Very light.