I've mentioned before that I haven't tied flies in 12 or 15 years. I spent last hunting season gathering materials from game I got. I shaved squirrels I shot, plus a roadkill black squirrel, and I saved pheasant feathers. I saved a couple hen skins hoping I could use them instead of buying a partridge skin. Partly because I thought it would be fun to use materials I got on my own and partly because my wife says I'm cheap. I finally looked through some old stuff the other day and found a new unused Hungarian partridge skin. I'm still keeping my hen pheasant skins though.