Bear rugs with holes in each armpit?

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30 December 2016, 06:08

JBrown

Bear rugs with holes in each armpit?

I recently saw a video about hunting in Romania. In the video the hunters toured a hunting museum that had a bunch a bear rugs. Each bear had 4 dinner plate size round holes in the hide, one at each armpit(legpit?).

I am wondering what the reason would be for the holes. I was hoping that one of you might enlighten me.

Jason

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30 December 2016, 19:43

Grizzly Adams

Stab in the dark.

Hair is very usually sparse in those areas, Someone might just have trimmed it away.

Grizz

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03 January 2017, 00:44

lorefuma

something "traditional" in romanian bear rug. They put these rosettes to cover the zone with bad hair. Being ultra stretched to maximize size -these bears in museums are the CIC world records (i mean... number 1-2-3-4-5-6...) shoot by Ceausescu so maximize size was a must...- the armpit hairs are more sparse than natural