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01-21-2020, 12:17 PM

#11

rogerstv

Nontypical Buck

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Location: West Central Illinois

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If you plan to use the hide to wrap the skull plate, cut it larger than the skull plate. As the hide dries, it shrinks and you cannot wrap it.

01-21-2020, 01:15 PM

#12

Oldtimr

Boone & Crockett

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Location: south eastern PA

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Better off using tanned deer skin to cover the skull that raw hair on hide. The raw hide will draw bugs.

01-21-2020, 04:49 PM

#13

Bocajnala

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Location: Trumbull County, Ohio

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Oldtimr

Better off using tanned deer skin to cover the skull that raw hair on hide. The raw hide will draw bugs.

Yep. I pull the flesh off all of mine. Sharp knife around the base of each antler. Then a good pair of pliers will twist that skin right off. Then trim up any flesh with a knife. And can dry it by hanging it up or could cover it in 20 mule team borax if you wanted to.

-Jake