- - Elephant mount
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fritz1
12-28-2010 05:28 PM
Originally Posted by timbercruiser
(Post 3748630)
How and in what shape are they able to ship an elephant head hide from Africa to Idaho? Seems like you surely couldn't freeze it and just salting a hide that thick wouldn't work. How thin do you flesh the hide for mounting?
It comes from Africa dried and salted, in a crate just like anything else. We are a U.S.D.A. certified clearing agent, most African hides and horns that are shipped to the U.S. come to us before they are shipped to other taxidermist. You shave it as thin as you can without cutting through the wrinkles, tideous work for sure. I will go through some of my pictures and see if I cant find some of the elephant before we rehydrated it.
