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Offline TeacherMan

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Velvet
« on: March 16, 2009, 02:48:18 PM »
What do you do if you get a buck that has velvet on it? Is there a way to preserve the natural velvet? Do you think it is better to get the fake velvet?

I've got a couple buck in Sept (early archery) that I've had to peel, I would prefer not to do that this year if I get an early season animal.

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2009, 02:51:59 PM »
THERE IS SOME STUFF CALLED VELVET PRESERVE,dont know where to get it ,poke a butt load of little holes and soak it..hope that you can find that

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2009, 02:53:04 PM »
I asked the same question last August.  Here's the link to that thread:

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,10669.0.html




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Re: Velvet
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2009, 04:51:36 PM »
I shot a muley buck during the early archery and he was in full velvet and i never put anything on his velvet and it still looks the same as the day i killed it, but think he was close to sheding it! :dunno:
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Re: Velvet
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2009, 09:16:04 PM »
douse the horns in paint thinner... it kills the bacteria that eats the velvet... works great...

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2009, 10:26:55 AM »
Teach, I'll be sending a set of whitetail antlers off to have the artifical velvet applied to them. I'll post before and after pic's for you when I'm done with them.

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2009, 11:31:09 AM »
I shot a muley buck during the early archery and he was in full velvet and i never put anything on his velvet and it still looks the same as the day i killed it, but think he was close to sheding it! :dunno:

me too, i just left out in the sun in the yard for a few days intil the sun dried it, and it didn't smell anymore.

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2009, 07:45:51 AM »
best way, but expensive,  is to have it freeze dried there are some different websites that you can research and do it.
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Re: Velvet
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2009, 08:22:14 AM »
Velvet Tan will work well just make sure you use it when the horns are freshly killed, dont wait too long to inject them, the blood will thichen up and can be hard to get through the veins in the horns. I actually submerge tan them too in an allum tan.

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2009, 03:59:22 PM »
 me too, i just left out in the sun in the yard for a few days intil the sun dried it, and it didn't smell anymore.
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Worst way possible, had two sets of Caribou velet antlers drying on my back wall several years ago and two second years Brown Bears hauled them through the fence and proceeded to eat them and went away with them... :chuckle:  They were almost finished drying too... :bash:

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2009, 11:47:26 PM »
 :'( :'( :'(

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2009, 11:02:32 AM »
me too, i just left out in the sun in the yard for a few days intil the sun dried it, and it didn't smell anymore.

Worst way possible, had two sets of Caribou velet antlers drying on my back wall several years ago and two second years Brown Bears hauled them through the fence and proceeded to eat them and went away with them... :chuckle:  They were almost finished drying too... :bash:
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i dont think there are too many brown bears in neighborhoods in north spokane, but i may be wrong :chuckle:
they were on the roof of the gazebo for a few days and still look the same as they did when i shot the deer.

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Re: Velvet
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2009, 03:22:30 PM »
INJECT EARLY AS STATED BEFORE


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Re: Velvet
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2009, 03:29:35 PM »
They just barely started growing velvet - aren't you jumping the gun a little  :chuckle:

 


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