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Removing Antelope Horns
bucklucky:
Why do you cut 2 1/2 inches off the core.
grizzlygibbs:
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--- Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on October 31, 2008, 01:06:09 PM ---
HORN MOUNT: If you are doing a horn mount go ahead at this point simmer the skull cap and core. NOT THE SHEETHS (HORNS), or they will fall apart and swell. Once all the meat is gone you can re attach with bondo or epoxy.
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Once the sheeths are off the core I make a strong dawn dish soap solution and wash the inside of the sheeths out. Than I rinse them really well. Towel dry and put Dry Preserve inside both sheeths and let them dry. That should take care of the smell. Once tthe skull cap and cores are dry after simmering re attach the sheets on to the cores.
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What kind of dry preserve? Stock salt? or ???
Michelle_Nelson:
No it's Dry Preserve. It's kinda like a powdered borax with other preserving stuff in it. Go to www.taxidermy.com and look it up their. They sell some smallish bags of it.
You CAN NOT rub it on a hide to preserve it like a tanned skin.
grizzlygibbs:
ok so i got the sheaths off today and i am boiling the skull, so can i just use borax and do i just dump it in the sheath? or sprinkle it on the outside and inside?
Michelle_Nelson:
Yeah borax will work.
Take both sheaths and wash them with dawn dish soap and water. Rinse well and towel dry. Than fill both sheaths with borax. It won'thurt anything if you get borax on the outside. Make sure the borax coats the entire insideof the sheaths. Than just set them aside and let them dry you can reattach them to the core later.
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