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    Quote Originally Posted by Tommie View Post
    I'm going to have to add my point of view here,and some of you may not like it,but i have to say it.

    I'm very disapointed that some of you are creating a market by purchasing wild animal sporans.I find it repulsive an would never buy one.

    Come on guys-there are plenty of alternatives hides out there without killing wildlife...Sorry,but its just how I feel.
    Do you buy synthetic kilts too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
    Do you buy synthetic kilts too?
    You don't kill sheep to get wool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tommie View Post
    I'm going to have to add my point of view here,and some of you may not like it,but i have to say it.

    I'm very disapointed that some of you are creating a market by purchasing wild animal sporans.I find it repulsive an would never buy one.

    Come on guys-there are plenty of alternatives hides out there without killing wildlife...Sorry,but its just how I feel.
    Tommie, do you own a leather sporran, boots, shoes, etc?
    If so, how do you think it was obtained?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack Daw View Post
    I have a similar made by Craigies. It gets a LOT of attention. I've worn it only three times; the last was at our Houston Kilt night on January 10th at the Tilted Kilt to welcome Chase home. I wear it for casual, but can only bring myself to wear it with the Black Watch kilt and red-and-white diced hose, like the A&S. Have you worn yours for piping gigs? Ironically, the A&S pipers wore a horsehair and not the badger mask sporran. Still, regardless of tradition...
    I don't have a badger sporran, only a horsehair (as far as military sporrans go), but I do intend to get a badger mask one soon. I'm Wisconsin, after all. But yeah, with the black watch and the diced hose, I bet you look like you're straight out of Tunes of Glory! Throw on a khaki shirt and diced glengarry, and you're ready to march!

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    Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
    I don't have a badger sporran, only a horsehair (as far as military sporrans go), but I do intend to get a badger mask one soon. I'm Wisconsin, after all. But yeah, with the black watch and the diced hose, I bet you look like you're straight out of Tunes of Glory! Throw on a khaki shirt and diced glengarry, and you're ready to march!

    I also have a forest green Patrol Tunic that I got from Canada. Before consolidation, the regiment converted from the red coat to the green. I haven't gotten an occasion to wear the tunic for piping, yet, though. And, I'm sticking with my plain glengarry.

    Ah, "Tunes of Glory" is one of my favorite kilted movies!

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    Acrylibeast is actually getting pretty similar to it's formerly alive alternatives. I have an acrylibeast sporran that many people have thought was grey rabbit, even after touching it. So hey that's nice.

    I wonder if/when a full-mask acrylibeast sporran will be available.

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    Tommie, do you own a leather sporran, boots, shoes, etc?
    If so, how do you think it was obtained?
    I think you are missing my point here.
    Leather does not come from animals in the wild.

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    Dang! That is what I call scha-WEET (well, that's what I call it in my mind, not that I'd ever say it out loud; wait a minute…)!!

    I've got a skunk pelt that I've been meaning to turn into a sporran. If only I could find the time… oh I remember: college has stolen all my formerly copius free time (curse you general education requirements!). sigh… maybe in time for my girlfriend's senior prom…

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    Do you buy synthetic kilts too?
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    I have not as of yet seen a kilt made from Badger,Seal or Dolphin skin.

    I also will not ever purchase a kilt from any kilt maker that makes Sporans from these type of skins.
    Last edited by Tommie; 22nd January 08 at 09:32 AM.

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    I'm sure you won't have any problems, particularly if you have a normal type of sporran. Billy Connolly seems to go backwards and forwards to America with a badger sporan. I think Customs are a lot tougher in America when it comes to certain items like seal fur and wherever you go ivory is a no-no unless you can prove it is older than the ban (e.g. bagpipe fittings). And pack your sgian dubh in your hold luggage or it is likely to be confiscated.

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