How to get him right he was just stepping through that little opening you
see I step out with one foot and I squeezed it right off and hammered him I
think right in the shoulder just boom just laid him straight down what a buck.
Well folks now we're going to do is we're going to cure the antlers here we
have the this buck is in the velvet this is the first half of September here so
the bucks are in the velvet they're getting ready to shed but I definitely
want to keep the velvet on this buck when I have him mounted you know you
definitely don't want to waste a good velvet on a big old buck like this it's
not a lot of places you can get them in the velvet and we were fortunate to take this
big ol buck here in Colorado so we're gonna do we're going to cure the velvet
this is a velvet curing kit I got this you can get it from your local
taxidermist I got this from the good taxidermist up in Libby Montana at a
wildlife recapture his name is Mel. He's the guy that does all the the taxidermy
for the Eastman's trophy deer display and also he does my taxidermy personally.
So he gave me this kit what it consists of is antler and velvet tan solution, a
hypodermic needle, careful that one and a paintbrush. The velvet is actually like
hide so there's hide with hair on it over the top of the antlers but in
between that there's all kinds of fluids and blood and what not so that's what we
have to get out of the antler, we have to get find a way to get the fluid from
underneath the hide on these antlers out of there and replace it with this
solution which is going to actually tan this hide it's much like leather so what
we're gonna do we're gonna poke holes with a hypodermic needle on the tops of
all the points two or three holes on tops of each point then we're going to
turn this upside down like this and we're going to inject the fluid at the
basis and whats happen as that fluids gonna run down
through the antlers and out the holes in the tips we're gonna have to do that
probably two or three times because we want to keep injecting this until the
fluid that comes out the tips antlers is clear or no longer bloody then we're
going to take a paintbrush and paint a real thick solution of this on the
outside of the antlers and let them dry then we'll be able to freeze it and take
it to the taxidermist and this will be cured and then saved for, for the mount.
You want to be real careful you don't poke the holes rip the velvet. Especially
right now because these bucks are getting ready to shed this velvet so
it's getting just a little bit soft.
See it coming out of the holes right there.
Now we do is just paint on a coat on the outside thick thick coat the whole idea
here is to coat it inside and out with this you want to make sure you paint it
on real good look a little funny kind of like a wet rat but it'll dry then once
it's dry totally cured you can fluff it up with a hair dryer.
About it so we'll let this dry come back in a few hours or this evening and pump
a little more of the injector sauce marinade inside and it'll be good let it
dry real good flip it up put it in the freezer and it's off to the taxidermist up to
Libby, Montana and up to Mel's place to get mounted.
Can't wait till its done. There we go.