Velvet Field Care/Preservation?

[Caseyd]

I was entertained 

Hard week?? Thinking about that long drive to the blues arnt ya 

[bowsandhose]

BL still dont know where we will camp    may camp near the cut like you suggested

[bucklucky]

Research Manikind does the velvet service. Its $100.00 plus you measure the main beam length and all the point lengths , add them up and multiply by 75 cents I think. I have a blacktail I will be sending in here shortly fo another display mount so peopple can see how it looks.

[Big10gauge]

Maybee the turpentine method would work well on this  .

Probably   

[SpokaneSlayer]

Thanks for all the info guys.  Hopefully I won't even have to worry about it.  Good luck to everyone on Monday.

[bucklucky]

Its always easier when the are rubbed out!!

[Big10gauge]

Jeez Guys, This thread seems to be dying a slow death so I thought I would try to liven it up a liitle bit and probably cause BL to have a fit even though I think he's probably left to go hunting!! This is a buck in velvet that I arrowed in 2000. The velvet was in good shape so I thought I would try to keep it on. I was 49 miles to the closest town and it only had a post office and a small store. Luckily they had a can of TURPENTINE  . So I saturated the velvet with TURPENTINE 3 times over a 2 day period. I took a couple pics today to show what it looks like after 8 years. Notice the velvet is still in great shape.  By the way a can of TURPENTINE costs 7 bucks. Now I imagine the "wrath" of BL will descend upon me.

Day I arrowed it


Eight years later

[bowsandhose]

  

[tlbradford]

I wouldn't be surprised if you were both right.  There is quite a bit of difference in the make-up of elk and deer horns.  Maybe you two could argue that for awhile.   

[deaddog]

i have always found turpentine to work great on velvet , so did my dad, and his dad , and his taxidermist  showed him how to do it.

[boneaddict]

I am glad this got resurrected.   It should be framed where Buck admitted to being a peckerhead. LOL

[cberg]

OK>. here is another question then... we have taken some antlers in with the velvet still on and it just hardens and stays on just fine. We have had one for many years that looks as good now as the day it died. There is no smell, no slipping and we didn't do anything to them. So what would cause that? I know at some magical time (like right about this time of the year) the animal stops sending blood up to those bad boys and they strip the velvet off but I don't understand the whole process. Any ideas on why we haven't had to do anything to these?

[cberg]

here is a bad pic of a great rack that is completely dry, no preservatives, 8 years old... my camera phone sux

[BLKBEARKLR]

Or one of the easiest things to do is send it out to be freeze dried

[markts]

PECKERHEAD Finally some honesty Mark