Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
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Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
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One of my friends and call maker has been diagnosed with a serious illness. I am no call maker....yet, but I do have access to some pretty cool fabrication machinery. I am helping plan a turkey call auction. I am a mechanical designer/sales engineer. I wanted to come up with something pretty cool and one of a kind for the auction since I cant donate a call. I decided on asking my company if they would allow me to get a custom fire ring done. I am still working at it but this is my current lay out. I wanted to have the fired ring to tell the story on a text book off the roost turkey hunt (although if this is Cambria County PA on opening day or a Saturday I need to put in hunters shooting the gobbler off the roost, or insert a guy sneaking in a cutting off the hunter) but any way here it is.
I wanted the story to tell itself as you walk around the fire. Gobbler on roost, gobbler flying down, gobbler walking in, gobbler hamering at a call, hunter waiting for shot, then the successful hunter walking out with the bird over the shoulder.
I will be fine tuning it and smoothing it out but I am pretty pumped with how it turned out so far. I may add in some turkey tracks but I am kind of digging the rustic look that is on there so far. It wil be 38" in diameter and be made from steel. Going to have it blasted then paint it with either grill paint or woodstove paint.
What do you guys think of it? You are looking at the flat pattern of the ring.
GOBBLER ON ROOST, GOBBLER FLYING DOWN
GOBBLER WALKING IN, GOBBLER HAMMERING AT A CUT SEQUENCE
HUNTER WAITING FOR SHOT, SUCESSFUL HUNTER
One of my friends and call maker has been diagnosed with a serious illness. I am no call maker....yet, but I do have access to some pretty cool fabrication machinery. I am helping plan a turkey call auction. I am a mechanical designer/sales engineer. I wanted to come up with something pretty cool and one of a kind for the auction since I cant donate a call. I decided on asking my company if they would allow me to get a custom fire ring done. I am still working at it but this is my current lay out. I wanted to have the fired ring to tell the story on a text book off the roost turkey hunt (although if this is Cambria County PA on opening day or a Saturday I need to put in hunters shooting the gobbler off the roost, or insert a guy sneaking in a cutting off the hunter) but any way here it is.
I wanted the story to tell itself as you walk around the fire. Gobbler on roost, gobbler flying down, gobbler walking in, gobbler hamering at a call, hunter waiting for shot, then the successful hunter walking out with the bird over the shoulder.
I will be fine tuning it and smoothing it out but I am pretty pumped with how it turned out so far. I may add in some turkey tracks but I am kind of digging the rustic look that is on there so far. It wil be 38" in diameter and be made from steel. Going to have it blasted then paint it with either grill paint or woodstove paint.
What do you guys think of it? You are looking at the flat pattern of the ring.
GOBBLER ON ROOST, GOBBLER FLYING DOWN
GOBBLER WALKING IN, GOBBLER HAMMERING AT A CUT SEQUENCE
HUNTER WAITING FOR SHOT, SUCESSFUL HUNTER
NEXT YEAR I' HOLDING OUT FOR A BIG ONE!!
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Re: Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
Looks very cool. Guys that work by me make those all the time on our lasers.. Ive never seen a story line one like this though.
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Re: Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
Love it!
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Looks awesome, cant wait to see the finished product!
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Re: Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
nice!!!!!!! looks like how all my hunts unfolded this past spring
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Re: Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
BigHunt wrote:nice!!!!!!! looks like how all my hunts unfolded this past spring
Rubbin it in are we?!
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Re: Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
You can fool some of the bucks, all of the time, and fool all of the bucks, some of the time, however you certainly can't fool all of the bucks, all of the time.
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Darin wrote:BigHunt wrote:nice!!!!!!! looks like how all my hunts unfolded this past spring
Rubbin it in are we?!
just reassuring that I'm taking part in the harvest of surplus of wild game
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Re: Preliminary design for fire ring to be auctioned
Outstanding!
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Very cool!
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That's pretty cool. Gives me an idea to do one in the same sequence with a bedded buck.
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