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Community => Taxidermy & Scoring => Topic started by: TeacherMan on March 16, 2009, 02:48:18 PM

Title: Velvet
Post by: TeacherMan on March 16, 2009, 02:48:18 PM: What do you do if you get a buck that has velvet on it? Is there a way to preserve the natural velvet? Do you think it is better to get the fake velvet?

I've got a couple buck in Sept (early archery) that I've had to peel, I would prefer not to do that this year if I get an early season animal.

thanks
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: rasbo on March 16, 2009, 02:51:59 PM: THERE IS SOME STUFF CALLED VELVET PRESERVE,dont know where to get it ,poke a butt load of little holes and soak it..hope that you can find that
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on March 16, 2009, 02:53:04 PM: I asked the same question last August. Here's the link to that thread:

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,10669.0.html (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,10669.0.html)
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: bowhunterforever on March 16, 2009, 04:51:36 PM: I shot a muley buck during the early archery and he was in full velvet and i never put anything on his velvet and it still looks the same as the day i killed it, but think he was close to sheding it! :dunno:
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: Hunt4ever on March 16, 2009, 09:16:04 PM: douse the horns in paint thinner... it kills the bacteria that eats the velvet... works great...
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: Elkstuffer on March 17, 2009, 10:26:55 AM: Teach, I'll be sending a set of whitetail antlers off to have the artifical velvet applied to them. I'll post before and after pic's for you when I'm done with them.

Elkstuffer

p.s. I also use velvet tan from Research Mannikins as was stated by Buckluckey in the earlier post.
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: BULLBLASTER on March 17, 2009, 11:31:09 AM: Quote from: bowhunterforever on March 16, 2009, 04:51:36 PM
I shot a muley buck during the early archery and he was in full velvet and i never put anything on his velvet and it still looks the same as the day i killed it, but think he was close to sheding it! :dunno:

me too, i just left out in the sun in the yard for a few days intil the sun dried it, and it didn't smell anymore.
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on March 28, 2009, 07:45:51 AM: best way, but expensive, is to have it freeze dried there are some different websites that you can research and do it.
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: bucklucky on March 28, 2009, 08:22:14 AM: Velvet Tan will work well just make sure you use it when the horns are freshly killed, dont wait too long to inject them, the blood will thichen up and can be hard to get through the veins in the horns. I actually submerge tan them too in an allum tan.
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: cohoho on March 28, 2009, 03:59:22 PM: me too, i just left out in the sun in the yard for a few days intil the sun dried it, and it didn't smell anymore.
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Worst way possible, had two sets of Caribou velet antlers drying on my back wall several years ago and two second years Brown Bears hauled them through the fence and proceeded to eat them and went away with them... :chuckle: They were almost finished drying too... :bash:
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: bucklucky on March 28, 2009, 11:47:26 PM: :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: BULLBLASTER on April 02, 2009, 11:02:32 AM: Quote from: cohoho on March 28, 2009, 03:59:22 PM
me too, i just left out in the sun in the yard for a few days intil the sun dried it, and it didn't smell anymore.

Worst way possible, had two sets of Caribou velet antlers drying on my back wall several years ago and two second years Brown Bears hauled them through the fence and proceeded to eat them and went away with them... :chuckle: They were almost finished drying too... :bash:
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i dont think there are too many brown bears in neighborhoods in north spokane, but i may be wrong :chuckle:
they were on the roof of the gazebo for a few days and still look the same as they did when i shot the deer.
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: BULLZ-i on April 06, 2009, 03:22:30 PM: INJECT EARLY AS STATED BEFORE
Title: Re: Velvet
Post by: whacker1 on April 06, 2009, 03:29:35 PM: They just barely started growing velvet - aren't you jumping the gun a little :chuckle: