I know this should be in taxidermy but it wasnt getting many responses. I was wondering if anybody ever made a deer hoof bowrack before. Is there any way to do it were you dont have to skin the feet? Is there anything i can soak it in or something?

I was going to make some and just bent the hooves at the joint and let them dry (About 8 sets). The following year I cut them to size on a chop box(mitre saw).The next year I threw them out since I had no time or place to hang them when I was done. Figured I can always get more. By the way there was no hair slipage or strong odor I imagine if I filled the marrow pat with a wooden dowel or epoxy I would have had something to screw the backboard too. I've got the instructions somewhere.

Ive herd of people doing that before. How long you think theyll last if i just bent them and let them sit?

I already put them in the freezer unbent. When they unthaw will I be able to bend them?

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if you soak them in water they will come back after you take them out of the freezer. Then, just wrap them in duck tape with a pencil or somethin in between the gap in the hooves to get some spacing in between them. Cut them to length, fill the hole in the bone with some wood filler to that you can screw them to wood without them pulling out.

Thanks hunter9022, will the hooves last a long time doing this?

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I never made nuthing from them but I have 8 or 10 feet bent in my shed. They are from 4 to 8 years old & nothing has happened to them yet. I was gonna make a gun rack or coat rack with them but never got around to it.