OT Mounting antlers

Dave from MN · Feb 10, 2009

Such as deer and elk and moose, or bulls. In MN do I need a taxidermy liscence? Want to start a side business that the boys can learn as well.

Vito · Feb 10, 2009

Dave,
What are you mounting the antlers on?

Vito

Dave from MN · Feb 10, 2009

Varying Wooden badge shaped plaques. Use plaster of paris for shaping of the base of the antlers. Just about anything for a clovering. Nothing like the cheap looking kits you can buy.

teddy52food · Feb 10, 2009

Check with the DNR. I heard they watch the taxidermitists to make sure no illegal game is mounted.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 10, 2009

instead of plaster of paris try the expanding spray foam in a can found at the lumber store. spray it where you want to build up the antler area and when it's dry you can start to shape it with a small saw and then finish it with a rasp. my friend the taxidermist has done thousands of them and they are easy to do!

Dave from MN · Feb 11, 2009

I wont use that stuff. carpet beetles, litter beetles, and little friend's like them will borrow into the stuff and lay eggs. Eventually it'll be ruined.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 11, 2009

I don't know the answer to your original question, but you've got me curious about the plaster. Most everything you see mounted here is just the skull cap cleaned up and mounted. I've, as a kid, used a torch to darken the bone and once (cause the guy that gave me the horns thought it'd look good) painted the skull with bronze paint :shock: .

Prettiest ones I done were my first kill. Used two layers of 1/2 " carpet pad and stretched velvet over it.

Dave

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