Anyone want a bison mount

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Throwing this out there:

Have a Bison hunt in 7-57 from Dec. 5-Dec.10 by Pink Mountain. If I get an animal I don't want to waste the head/hide, but I can't really afford to mount it and I have no where to put it. Would anyone like the head or mount?

Scott
 
Scott Bear said:
Throwing this out there:

Have a Bison hunt in 7-57 from Dec. 5-Dec.10 by Pink Mountain. If I get an animal I don't want to waste the head/hide, but I can't really afford to mount it and I have no where to put it. Would anyone like the head or mount?

Scott
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I'd like to have it but, me too.
 
Even if you can't afford to have a taxidermist do the euro mount... you can do it yourself by boiling it in a big basin on a turkey fryer and then pressure washer it clean... or you can find one of those big mound sized any hills and place it on top, the ants will pick it all clean for you in 6 weeks or less (in the summer, so you might need to freeze it till then)
Buffalo euro mounts look pretty cool in my opinion
 
I agree with the Euro mount. Keep the hide, or some of it, for binding the horn caps. Belly leather is better than the hump unless you are making a shield :p
If you don't want to tan it or have it tanned you can rawhide it without much work. Make a paste of wood ash and water to slip the hair. Flesh it well when you scrape the hair off. Stretch it and let it dry. Once it's dry it stores well and you simply have to wet it to make it pliable again and easy to cut into strips. The beauty of the rawhide is that it shrinks when it dries and gets hard so you don't have to be worried about it loosening off over time.

I used tanned hide for the horn wraps etc on this one because I didn't have any rawhide left thanks to an overzealous Rottweiler.
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