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Looks very nice!!!!
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I had the paint dry. They do look a bit too brown. But I am going to go with it that way anyhow. I don't really care.
Thanks for the nice comments.
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Ive never painted any of my pronghorn horns. Mine are all done natural. How did your lose color Ray?
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It seems like the horns got wet somehow when the beetles were chewing on the flesh. So they laid wet for a long time is my guess. That caused a great deal of discoloration on one particular horn.
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Gotcha. I always swetted the horns off before I bugged the pronghorns . Makes sence to me now.
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I used black shoe polish on the ones I did....the kind you turn upside down and squeeze with the foam tip on them (if that makes sense). It was easy to apply and I think they look good. Actually, half way thru this post I did a double check, they are blacker than the taxidermy mount I was given.
Here is a pic of the ones I did for reference.
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Ray did the pronghorn sheaths get mold on them? I have found when horns or antlers develop mold when allowed to sweat that will discolor them.
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Here's my 1st attemp & a crappy cell phone pic, The horns were also kinda brown & dry. I put some mink oil on em.
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That looks nice. I am getting one that hangs off a wall at an angle like that.
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Looks great Ray! Pronghorn Euros look cool.
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yeah that mount looks nice hope we draw mt and i can do one like that
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Hey Ray --- AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH! AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH! Can't keep from laughing everytime I hear that sound in my head... BTW- Horns look great....
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Cohoho, Yeah that son of a gun just realized he had been tagged and I am sure he felt that sting! LOL
I decided to leave the horns dark brown. We used my friend's drill press and put dowels onto this mounting plaque setup which I picked up from my neighbor. I could either leave it as a table mount or turn the dowel and hang it on the wall. I drilled a couple of small holes near the base of the skull and set some drywall screws down to hold the skull to the plaque.
All done..
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Looks great
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Nice final product!
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