I' mdrying the fan and wings to display. I put borax on the fleshy areas and such but, do you change out the borax from time to time or just leave the intial coat on there? It' s getting soggy now so I don' t know to leave it or not? Thanks guys.

Trapper,
Borax only speeds up drying and really in no way treats the flesh to prevent bug infestation at some later time. The feather butts on the fan need to be cleaned of all flesh and fat then boraxed. The wings have a lot of muscle tissue that needs to be removed if you haven' t already. Take your knife and clean all flesh away from the underside of the wings then add the borax. If you really want them all to shine. Before boraxing wash in a bath of Dawn and cool water, rinse multiple times until water is clean, soak up excess moisture with a clean towel. Soak in coleman fuel for a few minutes. WARNING: DO NOT GET NEAR ANY KIND OF SPARK WHILE DOING THIS. Remove from fuel and allow to air dry some outside. Take a blow dryer and use the warm setting to blow dry the feathers completely, until the down is fluffed. You will need to preen the wing feathers into their proper position and if you have removed enough fat and flesh from the tail the feathers will freely move. Arrange the feathers in proper order and spread then bondo the feather butts in that position.

If all of this sounds like too much of a job take it to a reputable taxidermist that can properly preserve your trophy.

Trapper T,
Man you should' ve asked in the other room & I could' ve hooked you up in a instant. I' m a cert. taxidermist.

Change it. Man look up NWTF on the web got to there tips section scroll down & they have a step by step (with pics) process on how to dow a fan mount. as far as the wings man get all the meat out of there or it will STINK, replace the meat by wrapping cotton around & tie it off with thread.

HEy guys, Thanks, I just spent three hours getting them right, I hope. At first I was worried that the way I hack up a skinning job on them birds I' d mess up the fan. But I think it will be alright. Pulled everything I could don' t have any white gas but I' ll get that tomorrow. Messed up one wing around the shoulder has a hole in it but I think when I display it if I put black cloth behind it no one will notice. Gonna try and shadow box this one. Was able to get enough bones to try an make a yelper. Either of you tried that? Be cool to call one in on something that you bagged yourself