Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: ducksdoom12 on December 19, 2009, 05:56:15 PM
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i shot a merganzer drake today, overall fairly cool looking bird and because it is worthless from an eating it point-of-view i am going to go ahead and mount it. the problem is that the brest has quite a bit of blood on it. I already wiped it down with a warm damp cloth and got most of it off. my question is does anyone know of a good way to clean the feathers really good to get it ready to mount?
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Once you start mounting it and washing it the blood will come up. If you have most of it off, once you get it skinned out and washed a lot more of it will come out. The harder parts of the blood will soften up then use a soft bristle brush and it will come off. Wash it in dawn it will get a lot of the grease out...
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Does salt water help remove the blood?
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I have never tried salt water, I would think since it has salt in there it might dry the skin out as it is drying. If it is just washed a couple of times in dawn and water the blood will come out of it
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Wash it in dish soapy water after skinning, it will come out along with the grease in the skin.
Need help doing some taxidermy? I can help and I see your in Stanwood, I'm in Marysville and looking for somewhere to get back into taxidermy as I can't where I live now.