Deer
Your mount will only be as good as the specimen you bring me.
Here are some tips that will help you take care of your animal before you bring it to me
so as to help ensure the best possible mounting.
Here are some tips that will help you take care of your animal before you bring it to me
so as to help ensure the best possible mounting.
How to Care for your Deer
Take your time skinning the deer and leave enough hide on it. When you make your cut on the stomach – stop when you get to the rib cage.
DO NOT CUT ANY FURTHER!
Pull the hide the rest of the way down. Ring the front legs at the joint and pull the legs through. Make sure that you bring all of the hide because I need from behind the front shoulders to have enough hide to do the mount. I can cut off what I need to.
IT IS BETTER TO HAVE MORE HIDE THAN NOT ENOUGH!
DO NOT CUT THE HIDE UP THE BACK!
After the deer is skinned, put the hide and head in a garbage bag and put in the freezer. If a freezer is not available, put the hide and head in a large garbage bag and put it in an ice chest and pack ice around the outside of the bag - not inside of the garbage bag.
Please keep the hide clean and DRY as possible and put it in the freezer as soon as possible.
It is best if you can get your hide in a freezer within 3 days from harvesting it. This will keep bacteria from spoiling the hide.
Take your time skinning the deer and leave enough hide on it. When you make your cut on the stomach – stop when you get to the rib cage.
DO NOT CUT ANY FURTHER!
Pull the hide the rest of the way down. Ring the front legs at the joint and pull the legs through. Make sure that you bring all of the hide because I need from behind the front shoulders to have enough hide to do the mount. I can cut off what I need to.
IT IS BETTER TO HAVE MORE HIDE THAN NOT ENOUGH!
DO NOT CUT THE HIDE UP THE BACK!
After the deer is skinned, put the hide and head in a garbage bag and put in the freezer. If a freezer is not available, put the hide and head in a large garbage bag and put it in an ice chest and pack ice around the outside of the bag - not inside of the garbage bag.
Please keep the hide clean and DRY as possible and put it in the freezer as soon as possible.
It is best if you can get your hide in a freezer within 3 days from harvesting it. This will keep bacteria from spoiling the hide.