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Stay tuned, more to come from Trudell Outdoor adventurers

Unread postby Jeff G » Thu Oct 17, 2013 2:50 am

Just wanted to let everyone know that soon we will be giving the "play by play" on how we put together our deer mounts at Trudell Outdoor Adventurers. We will start right in the beginning with the salting stage and lead you all the way thru our final painting stage. Feel free to ask many questions, we will try to answer them all. Good luck in the field, Jeff


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Unread postby magicman54494 » Thu Oct 17, 2013 3:02 am

I'll be looking forward to seeing this
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Unread postby DEERSLAYER » Thu Oct 17, 2013 3:35 am

It would be nice to see the skinning too. I would imagine it could be tough when it comes to the eye lids, nose and ears.
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Unread postby Jeff G » Thu Oct 17, 2013 3:40 am

After we remove the rack/skull plate, we need to turn the lips, eyes and nose. Next step is critical. Get it salted right away! We use non iodized (table salt). Buy in bulk. Pour the salt on, rub it into every inch of the hide. We try to remove all the large pieces of flesh, and most important of all is to remove ALL fat. Salt can penetrate some flesh, but CAN NOT penetrate fat. That needs to be removed. We leave the salt on the hide for 2 to 3 days. Then shake off the salt and let air dry for 1 day. Before it dries out to much, we gently fold the hide and store it until we start the mounting process. The hide can sit in this preserved state for an infinite amount of time. It actually is best if it sits for a few weeks in this dried salted stage. Helps set the hair even more.
Photo is of Dans bow kill from this September.

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Unread postby Jeff G » Thu Oct 17, 2013 3:58 am

Deer Slayer, I will get a pic to show you how we turn the lips, eyes, nose and ears. Its not difficult, just take time and not being in a rush. Some of the "cheaper priced" mounts fly thru this stage and do not pay attention to the small details. A great example is turning the ears. Some guys leave the ear cartlidge in the ear. Then bondo them up. With that method on a deer ear, you get thick ears that eventually will "drum". Drumming is when the skin is not glued properly. The ear skin seperates and creates a void, which is taught like a drum. Once the drumming hapens...you guessed it...looks bad. We remove the ear cartlidge, use very thing ear liners and trace the real cartlidge that came out of the deer to make an exact replica of what we removed. No drumming, and very thin, crisp ears. We will show this in a later post.
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Unread postby headgear » Thu Oct 17, 2013 4:06 am

Cool, looking forward to this thread.
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Unread postby Bucky » Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:08 am

Thanks for taking the time to put this together!

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Unread postby BassBoysLLP » Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:22 am

Cool thread. This one will be fun to follow.
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Unread postby Jackson Marsh » Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:47 pm

This is gonna be fun to follow! Thanks for sharing.

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Unread postby Jeff G » Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:44 am

The hide has been salted for a few days. Now we shake off the excess salt and let air dry for awhile. The hide will become stiff, just before that occurs we fold it p nice to store on our drying racks, The hide can stay in this state for a very long time.

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Next step will be to rehydrate the dried salted cape. We take the dried folded up cape and submerge in a large conatiner of luke warm water. We pour tide laundry soap in the water. This will help wash off any blood and salt that is on the hide. Once the hide is soft, we place in our pickle solution.
This is our pickle (tanning solution). The make up in each barrel is 30 gallons of water, 30 lbs of salt, 30 ounces of formic acid. Each barrel can accomodate 5 deer hides at a time. After 5 hides have gone thru the pickle solution, we mix a new batch. The hides can sit in the tan in a preserved state for as long as you want. The hair is locked in and will not fall out. Generally we like to leave them in the pickle solution for 1 week to get proper penetration of chemicals.

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Stay tuned next steps will be thinning the cape.


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