Velvet

[TeacherMan]

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.

thanks

[rasbo]

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

[SpokaneSlayer]

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

[bowhunterforever]

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!

[Hunt4ever]

douse the horns in paint thinner... it kills the bacteria that eats the velvet... works great...

[Elkstuffer]

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.

Elkstuffer

p.s. I also use velvet tan from Research Mannikins as was stated by Buckluckey in the earlier post.

[BULLBLASTER]

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!

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.

[BLKBEARKLR]

best way, but expensive,  is to have it freeze dried there are some different websites that you can research and do it.

[bucklucky]

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.

[cohoho]

 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...   They were almost finished drying too...

[bucklucky]

 

[BULLBLASTER]

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...   They were almost finished drying too...
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i dont think there are too many brown bears in neighborhoods in north spokane, but i may be wrong
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.

[BULLZ-i]

INJECT EARLY AS STATED BEFORE

[whacker1]

They just barely started growing velvet - aren't you jumping the gun a little