Painted the horns from my pronghorn

[robb92]

Looks very nice!!!!

[Ray]

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.

[bucklucky]

Ive never painted any of my pronghorn horns. Mine are all done natural. How did your lose color Ray?

[Ray]

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.

[bucklucky]

Gotcha. I always swetted the horns off before I bugged the pronghorns . Makes sence to me now.

[Gringo31]

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.   

[Michelle_Nelson]

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.

[KNOPHISH]

Here's my 1st attemp & a crappy cell phone pic, The horns were also kinda brown & dry. I put some mink oil on em.

[Ray]

That looks nice. I am getting one that hangs off a wall at an angle like that.

[Pathfinder101]

Looks great Ray!  Pronghorn Euros look cool.

[carpsniperg2]

yeah that mount looks nice hope we draw mt and i can do one like that

[cohoho]

Hey Ray  ---  AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!  AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!  Can't keep from laughing everytime I hear that sound in my head...  BTW-  Horns look great....

[Ray]

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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[markts]

Looks great

[Pathfinder101]

Nice final product!