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Offline fairweather

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Restoring sheds
« on: January 28, 2010, 07:52:45 PM »
How much would it cost to restore a year old shed pair? I would like to ge them mounted. Thank You

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Re: Restoring sheds
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2010, 08:13:25 PM »
Depends on the conditiond. Probably around 150.00 maybee lass maybee more by me . Got any pictures??

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Re: Restoring sheds
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2010, 08:17:01 PM »
What kind of critter anyway?? Ive restored a ton of antlers.

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Re: Restoring sheds
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 08:17:53 PM »
Pictures would help, there are a lot of ways you can restore old sheds yourself. There have been some decent pictorials on here showing you how. Are you just wanting to get them mounted on a skull plate and then on a plaque? If so really easy to do it yourself.

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Re: Restoring sheds
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 08:38:17 PM »
fairweather:
 How much it would cost would depend on the amount of work that is required. I've spent as few as 2-3 hours staining a set of antlers to as many as 15-20 hours on  huge o elk sheds. This particular bull had a significant amount of chewing marks on the left main beam and about 50% of the brow tines were completely chewed off. Why don't you post up a few pictures and I'll bet you'll receive some feedback on approximate costs.

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Re: Restoring sheds
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 06:12:09 AM »
They are from a white tail. I shot a 170 class white tail in North Dakota last year. My uncle just called and he said he found its last years sheds. I thought it would be cool to get them shoulder mounted and we could have the same buck.

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Re: Restoring sheds
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2010, 06:23:33 AM »
THey are about the easiest to restore, usually because they take less coloring and they stay hard longer than other bones.   If there isn't much chewing done on them, then it would be a fairly easy task.

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Re: Restoring sheds
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2010, 08:43:14 AM »
I figured they were whitetail antlers.

 


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