found deer

[400out]

I am bring to you some pictures and a short story of a hunting experience I had in 07.  this beautiful 5x7 was taken in the blues by a hunter with no ethic nor skill! I viewed this deer get shot on some private land ajacent to the land that I was hunting it ran across a road and decended in to a draw/canyon not a very big one by my standards. I lost sight of the deer but proceded to view this hunting party atempt to locate this deer for maybe 45 min. before I guess giving up on the search, they got on they're atvs and road off. later that day I ran across these great hunters on a road not to far for they're land and asked them if they had found/went back to look for this deer they said no it didn't stop he must have missed! to make a long story short I went and looked the next day and found it late that afternoon not 400 yds away from where they stoped looking. I thought maybe the meat might still be good so I went ahead and tagged the deer and packed it out never did see those guys again DAMN! tobad the meat was no good it got to warm that day. but I got a nice rack now if I wouldn't have hung it out side!  If any of you know how I might restore the look to the antlers I would greatly appriciate it.

[huntnphool]

Are they cracked or just bleached? There have been loads of different styles used to darken bleached racks on here, try the taxi area.

[littlebuf]

i seem to remember something about shoe polish and dirt that made them look dang near natural, do a search theres some posts on here

[Slider]

You can use a wood stain and then spray Def sealer on them.

[M_ray]

Ask Bucklucky???

[M_ray]

Oh nice heavey rack BTW funky how the one side grew and seemed to put most the growth into that split brow! cool looking though 

[Pathfinder101]

That's a great blues buck.  They've gotten scarce up there, especially on public land.  Glad you were able to at least rescue the rack.  I have used brown shoe polish before, but I have heard that adding dirt makes it look more natural.

[robb92]

Nice buck to bad about the meat being wasted.

[PolarBear]

Here is a buck that I arrowed back in 06.  He has been sitting on top of my chicken coop until about 4 weeks ago.  I just cleaned it up and stained the antlers.   The antlers were bone white as yours.  I used saddle/antler stain that I got from Van Dykes Taxidermy Supply.  I sealed it with a clear, non yellowing, matte finnish.  This might be a little too chocolate brown for a muley so I would suggest mixing with a little walnut color or black dirt.

[Pathfinder101]

THose look great Polar.  Nice buck!

[boneaddict]

Nicely done Polar.

There are multiple recipes out there.  Some have great results like Polars and some look like paint.  I think Hunting Cowboy does a great job.  He had a thread  on here.  I rarely stain but I did a set, big two point antlers and they turned out well I think.  You can't even tell they aren't natural.  I hate the fake look.  I used the miniwax stain, and mud treatment and some steel wool.  I'd hook you up instantly withthe recipe but I can't remember which one I used.  I used the gel miniwax and antique something.   

[Sneaky]

I used oil from a 7,000 mile interval isuzu diesel. worked great

[boneaddict]

here he is

[boneaddict]

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[Slider]

Here is one of my Bull's I did. I just used a dark wood stain. One coat and then use steel wool to lighten rub areas and then another light coat of stain. Then a coat of Deft sealer let dry and then another coat. You can make them as dark as you want. These were as white as yours.