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Antelope rug?
Opportunist:
The one thing I've been told by friends that are antelope fanatics is to take one cooler for ice only, debone the meat right after the kill and get it on ice. I'll be sure to be careful skinning and to cool and salt it with non-iodized salt ASAP. I'll take a second cooler for the cape/hide. I need to practice caping this year on whatever I knock down just for practice, by the way thanks for the article on animal/hide/cape care.
Michelle_Nelson:
You don't want to salt and than put the hide right in the cooler. The salt is going to draw out a lot of moisture and you don't want your hide to sit in wet salt the entire way home. Salt the hide and let it set for 24 hours. Remove old salt and then resalt with fresh salt. Keep the hide in a cool dry place (shade). You don't want to leave the hide in the sun. You can't use to much salt.
Just make sure you split and turn everything befor you salt. Other wise the salt will not penetrate and it's not doing it's job.
EastWaViking:
I have three antelope mounts and they smell like "normal" mounts. I don't think a rug
would work, because the hair is very brittle. Heading back to wyoming again this Sept.
Hoping for mount #4!
Michelle_Nelson:
I don't see why you couldn't rug an antelope. Your going to hang it on the wall right? As long as your not going to put it on the ground and walk on it, it should hold up.
bucklucky:
That would be a fun rug to sew with a machine though.You would break them hais pretty easily. Probably have to hand sew the whole rug. All I can say is brittle. It would look pretty nice though!
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