Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
12-04-2004, 09:25 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Midland, North Carolina
Posts: 7
Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
Had a customer bring in these antlers yesterday, and wanted me to repair them...
He shot this buck with his bow, put it on his 4 wheeler and hauled it out of the woods. When he got to the road, the deer fell off and chipped three tines on one side, completely broke off one on the other side, and scraped really bad on the backsides.
What bad luck! But with a little work and epoxy I was able to fix these antlers almost good as new. I'll be doing a shoulder mount with them now.
He shot this buck with his bow, put it on his 4 wheeler and hauled it out of the woods. When he got to the road, the deer fell off and chipped three tines on one side, completely broke off one on the other side, and scraped really bad on the backsides.
What bad luck! But with a little work and epoxy I was able to fix these antlers almost good as new. I'll be doing a shoulder mount with them now.
12-04-2004, 10:01 AM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North East PA. but not home.
Posts: 743
RE: Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
Where is the skull plate??????Why are these cut off at the pedicule?????How are you going to attach the antlers to the form???? Good repair job on them.
12-04-2004, 10:16 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Midland, North Carolina
Posts: 7
RE: Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
When the antlers fell off, the skull plate broke as well. Apparently the guy took it upon himself to cut both antlers off at the pedicel. No problem, though. My taxidermy supply company sells artificial skull caps, which look just like the real thing but have screws coming out of them. These work great for shed antlers too. You just drill a hole in the antler base and epoxy it to the artificial skull cap, and there you have it! Ready to attach to the form.
12-05-2004, 06:18 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: chiefland Florida USA
Posts: 5,417
RE: Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
nice job.it was always a pleausure to fix things for my coustomers that though were unfixable.peaple do all sorts of damage to there game and wounder why it cost them to get it fixed.
congrats. on a good repair job.
congrats. on a good repair job.
12-21-2004, 06:36 PM
#5
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: La Grange, TX
Posts: 324
RE: Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
Nice job blending colors. Thats the hardest part to me. Just got done with a 165 class WT rack that had about 40 inches or so broke off.
Hope ya recouped all that labor time
thats the tough part to justify to most.
Jeff
Hope ya recouped all that labor time
thats the tough part to justify to most.Jeff
12-22-2004, 08:06 PM
#6
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 30
RE: Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
I had a buck I shot a couple years ago that broke off his drop tine after I shot him. Had him mounted & my taxidermist did a fine job of repairing the drop tine. It turned out great also.
01-03-2005, 02:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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RE: Wouldn't you hate if this happened? Broken antlers!
AmysTaxidermy, I have a set of real nice sheds that I would like to have mounted, where can I get the slull plate that you have posted. Can you email me ordering info and pricing?
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