The Croaker Vol 5

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bear rug

shawn campbell I recently learned that if you want to get a bear rug made it’s going to cost you around $6,000 and take as long as a year and half. This might seem like a lot of time and money, but you need to be realistic about the situation. I don’t imagine there are that many bear rug makers left in the world. Not just anyone can make bear rugs. It takes a lot of skill to turn a bear carcass into something that anyone trying to turn their living room into a high end 1970’s pornographic film set would be proud to have grace their hardwood floor. You know the kind of movie I’m talking about. The kind that actually tries to have a plot and stars people with ridiculous names like Charlie Buttermilk and Chesty McTitterson. Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. This begs the question, how do people even become a bear rug maker? I never saw that booth at my high school’s career day. Maybe it’s some kind of apprenticeship. I don’t know. Bear rug maker doesn’t really seem like the kind of career most people set out to get. It’s probably something you just kind of fall 48


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