Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: 400out on April 06, 2009, 07:25:44 PM
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I am bring to you some pictures and a short story of a hunting experience I had in 07. this beautiful 5x7 was taken in the blues by a hunter with no ethic nor skill! I viewed this deer get shot on some private land ajacent to the land that I was hunting it ran across a road and decended in to a draw/canyon not a very big one by my standards. I lost sight of the deer but proceded to view this hunting party atempt to locate this deer for maybe 45 min. before I guess giving up on the search, they got on they're atvs and road off. later that day I ran across these great hunters on a road not to far for they're land and asked them if they had found/went back to look for this deer they said no it didn't stop he must have missed! to make a long story short I went and looked the next day and found it late that afternoon not 400 yds away from where they stoped looking. I thought maybe the meat might still be good so I went ahead and tagged the deer and packed it out never did see those guys again DAMN! tobad the meat was no good it got to warm that day. but I got a nice rack now if I wouldn't have hung it out side! If any of you know how I might restore the look to the antlers I would greatly appriciate it.
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Are they cracked or just bleached? There have been loads of different styles used to darken bleached racks on here, try the taxi area.
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i seem to remember something about shoe polish and dirt that made them look dang near natural, do a search theres some posts on here
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You can use a wood stain and then spray Def sealer on them.
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Ask Bucklucky???
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Oh nice heavey rack BTW funky how the one side grew and seemed to put most the growth into that split brow! cool looking though :)
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That's a great blues buck. They've gotten scarce up there, especially on public land. Glad you were able to at least rescue the rack. I have used brown shoe polish before, but I have heard that adding dirt makes it look more natural.
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Nice buck to bad about the meat being wasted.
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Here is a buck that I arrowed back in 06. He has been sitting on top of my chicken coop until about 4 weeks ago. I just cleaned it up and stained the antlers. The antlers were bone white as yours. I used saddle/antler stain that I got from Van Dykes Taxidermy Supply. I sealed it with a clear, non yellowing, matte finnish. This might be a little too chocolate brown for a muley so I would suggest mixing with a little walnut color or black dirt.
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THose look great Polar. Nice buck!
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Nicely done Polar.
There are multiple recipes out there. Some have great results like Polars and some look like paint. I think Hunting Cowboy does a great job. He had a thread on here. I rarely stain but I did a set, big two point antlers and they turned out well I think. You can't even tell they aren't natural. I hate the fake look. I used the miniwax stain, and mud treatment and some steel wool. I'd hook you up instantly withthe recipe but I can't remember which one I used. I used the gel miniwax and antique something.
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I used oil from a 7,000 mile interval isuzu diesel. worked great :D
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here he is
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Here is one of my Bull's I did. I just used a dark wood stain. One coat and then use steel wool to lighten rub areas and then another light coat of stain. Then a coat of Deft sealer let dry and then another coat. You can make them as dark as you want. These were as white as yours.
