Just Finished Taxidermy Deer Mount Project! What do you think?

[olerambler]

I took the caped hide out the freezer Sunday (Feb 16) after church. I was able to start working it yesterday (Feb 19) and now I have it salted and hanging.

It’s hard work making look natural is hardest part.

 

[jcsblairsville]

Put the hide in the pickle solution today.

 

[jcsblairsville]

I thinned this hide Wednesday (Feb 26). I tanned it Friday (Feb 28). It will be mounted today. Stay tuned!

 

[4ssss]

I'm still waiting on the one I shot in Nov. of 22. I.m starting to feel like B Bypass Nice job on the mounts

 

[Glock 21]

I'm still waiting on the one I shot in Nov. of 22. I.m starting to feel like B Bypass Nice job on the mounts

Over 2 years waiting for a mount is nuts!

 

[basstracker89]

Over 2 years waiting for a mount is nuts!

Welcome to the rest of us......

 

[Glock 21]

Welcome to the rest of us......

This is why I have stopped shooting trophy deer. Spikes and fork horns only for me

 

[basstracker89]

This is why I have stopped shooting trophy deer. Spikes and fork horns only for me

I'll shoot whatever shows up. Horns just means extra meat!! That's as long as the deer is big enough for the processing charge. I have all the horns off every buck I've taken. The largest ones I've had mounted in a shoulder mount. I don't think I could stomach the cost now, but I'd save horns and put it in my collection. My largest, a 12 pointer, I found while walking my property. It was a complete deer skeleton. I just brought the horns home with me

 

[BIKER13]

European skull mounts. All I do anymore

 

[4ssss]

European skull mounts. All I do anymore

That's what I'm also doing now. I got this year's back in less than 2 weeks. Just 1 full mount for the wall, it was my 1st Ga. buck