Guys and Gals I need your help on this one. I found an awesome bull elk skull while turkey hunting yesterday and want to mount it european style. MY dad does the boiling and bleaching so I will have him do this for me. However, when I found him, his tines were in the dirt with the bottom of his skull up. Therefore his tines are fine but on his left side the rodents and knawed on his third point and knawed through his main beam to where it is spongy bone. I would like to repair this so I can have a great rustic mount for many years and one day hang it over my fireplace. Just curious if there are any good methods to repair this and get it colored correctly or what it typically costs per inch of horn (hopefully not too much as I dont have much in the way of funds since I am paying for college).
As a side not if anyone in Northern Colorado/Denver would like to teach someone how to do this I would love to learn.
Below are pictures of the skull. You can kind of see the damage but I will get a better picture when I take it to my parent's place tomorrow. (its in my apartment garage now because it still stinks quite a bit)
wow what a lucky find. wish you were close to Georgia I would help you out. when we repair horns we have to match the broken piece with a tip from another set of horns then run a wire through both pieces and bondo it on. then you have to rasp it smooth and stain it. its a long process but the most important part is having another set of horns you don't mind breaking
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Repairing Antler Damage
If you were on the west slope I would be more than happy to hook you up with my taxidermist.
