01/14/2021
Raccoon Hunt Belt and
Suspender Set
The air is crisp with the night, the moon shining full and lancing with silvery light through the pines. The hunter crashes though the forest holding his rifle firmly, listening. His Walkers Hound is out ahead, baying, calling to his master “This way! I have found him!” it seems to call and he listens homing in and glorying in their teamwork. The hound ahead continues to bay sounding like a banshee’s howl and proclaiming as a herald that soon his master would be there and death along with him. The hunter can tell the hound has stopped moving and he is finally closing in. Then, through the brush the flash of white of the Walker’s fur at the base of a tree. The hunter’s eyes scan upwards, a pair of eyes shine back like fire and give away the raccoons position in the branches where it thinks it has finally outwitted its opponent, unknowing that it was never the hound that it was truly facing. There the piercing silver moonlight offers just enough light for him as the hunter raises his rifle. He breathes slowly a few times, steadying, lining up his shot. The world shrinks and there is naught but the timeless tableau. The raccoon in the tree, the loyal hound shaking with excitement, his baying given way to simple excited barking at his partners approach and what is to come, and the hunter. The noises fade away and time stills with his breath and in the valley between his inhale, exhale. Between the soft rhythms within his own breast, in stillness incomprehensible to the uninitiated his finger squeezes of its own accord until suddenly thunder cracks the night and the hunt has come to its end. This belt and suspender combo is made to evoke and represent the thrill of the hunt.
The belt of the Raccoon Hunt is made of top grain vegetable tanned leather and features a hand tooled hunter, Walker hound, and a pair of raccoons about to seek refuge in a tree. The length of the belt also features a hand stamped forest in the background. Finally the belt is capped off with a vintage brass buckle held in place with a pair of Brass Chicago screws. The tail of the belt features extra close holes for extra comfort.
The suspenders of the Raccoon Hunt are also made from top grain vegetable tanned leather and feature all hand tooled raccoon prints running up each of the straps and terminating at a similarly hand tooled raccoon upon the back patch. The suspenders also feature coordinating brass trigger snaps and buckles with brass floral Chicago screws used throughout and similarly close holes for comfort.
