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Velvet question

Fishbonker

Fishbonker

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There are several bucks in PMA that were harvested in velvet. Can you get a mount done with the velvet on? How do they do it? I don't know much about taxydermie, especially how to spell it, but I'd think they would have to preserve the velvet somehow or it would decompose.

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I'm with Bonker on this one. I have always wondered this myself.
 
I think they strip it off and put a synthetic spray on that looks like velvet. I thought I heard that somewhere.
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I have seen mounts where they have freeze dried the original velvet and they look ok but there is a new process where they strip the velvet, electro-magneticaly charge the rack after it has been dipped in some kind of adhesive. This is done in a glass booth. They then use a flocking process to releases millions of little fibers that in turn "stick" to the rack, making it look like velvet. There are several colors available so you can match harvest pics of your deer's original velvet. It looks great but costs about as much as a deer head mount.
 
I asked a taxidemist once. He didn't really want to tell me at first but i got it out of him. He injected with a chemical I cant remember the name right off hand but it ended with a ethal or something like that.. He told me you could buy it at auto parts store.
 
I heard Chia-Pet makes a new brown Chia mix. They use it to grow velvet on mounts. I hear some guys are having success using it in food plots too.
 
If you get one in velvet it needs to be taken care of pretty quickly. If you don't get it freeze dried or injected within a day or two..3 days max, the velvet will more than likely look like crap and start to come off. I had a caribou mount done in velvet and it was freeze dried and it looks just the same as the day I shot it 4 years ago. Freeze drying is probably the easiest way to do it, and IMO looks the best because it encompass the entire rack. That fake velvet crap that is being put on now days does not even come close to looking real. From across the room it might look okay, but it just looks rediculous when you look at it up close...again..IMO.
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I've seen some poor quality flocking jobs and seen a lot of outstanding ones. As with all taxidermy, choose your taxidermist wisely.
The taxidermist that does fantastic mounts may do horrific flocking and visa-versa.
 
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