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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2010, 06:15:08 PM »
Looks very nice!!!!
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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2010, 06:15:55 PM »
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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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2010, 06:49:44 PM »
Ive never painted any of my pronghorn horns. Mine are all done natural. How did your lose color Ray?

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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2010, 07:25:16 PM »
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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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2010, 07:53:37 PM »
Gotcha. I always swetted the horns off before I bugged the pronghorns . Makes sence to me now.

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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2010, 10:14:49 PM »
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.   :dunno:



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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2010, 01:36:50 AM »
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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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2010, 06:10:12 AM »
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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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2010, 06:13:25 AM »
That looks nice. I am getting one that hangs off a wall at an angle like that.

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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2010, 05:44:09 PM »
Looks great Ray!  Pronghorn Euros look cool. :tup:
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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #25 on: June 16, 2010, 05:49:36 PM »
yeah that mount looks nice hope we draw mt and i can do one like that
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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2010, 04:21:49 PM »
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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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2010, 06:20:03 PM »
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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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #28 on: June 25, 2010, 06:29:39 PM »
Looks great :)

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Re: Painted the horns from my pronghorn
« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2010, 03:29:35 PM »
Nice final product! :tup:
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