Got my "fuzz mount" back

Gun Rod Bow · 10-21-2005, 11:34 AM

When I got my Mulie buck I wanted to do smoething with it, but not a shoulder mount. It was in the fuzz. I wanted to keep the fuzz.

So I decided on a european mount with artificial velvet.

Here's how it turned out.

Oh Yah,

Here's the original.

The fuzz is a little "fuzzier" than the original. But it looks pretty cool. It's synthetic, so it should last. Not cheap though. The fuzz treatment adds like $250 to the mount. But I wanted something that would last.

river rat · 10-21-2005, 11:45 AM

Looks good, nice buck. What do they use as artificial fuzz?

Gun Rod Bow · 10-21-2005, 12:22 PM

The taxidermist send it out to a place that applies the artificial fuzz. I dunno what it is. But it's very durable and supposed to last forever.

cwh · 10-21-2005, 12:37 PM

That is cool! I always wondered what people do when they get a nice buck like that in velvet. You almost have to have it mounted, but I figured the velvet wouldn't have a chance. I've never had that problem.

waterfowlin101 · 10-21-2005, 01:07 PM

The fuzz WILL last.

But, you can also us horn injection fluid that preserves the actual velvet. Don't touch the antlers until they are injected and dried or the velvet wil just fall off.

Nice Bruce!

Jon

Elkrig · 10-21-2005, 01:36 PM

Nice looking fuzzy Bruce! Do you a nice spot for it at home? or is it going in the shop?

Ryan Pultz · 10-21-2005, 02:00 PM

I was wathing a show last night that said you can have the horns freeze dried with the Velvet on it and that it will last. rp

snit · 10-21-2005, 02:16 PM

Way cool!!! Nice buck too!!!

InPursuit · 10-21-2005, 02:23 PM

That looks way cool! I had a Caribou in velvet freeze dried (1993) and it still looks and feels like it did the day I harvested it.

G-Dubb

traks44 · 10-21-2005, 02:24 PM

very cool, I get my mout back tomorrow, I too will post pictures!

Gun Rod Bow · 10-21-2005, 02:52 PM

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Nice looking fuzzy Bruce! Do you a nice spot for it at home? or is it going in the shop?

Funny thing Daryl, when I told Karen I was on the way to get it she asked where I was gonna put it

She said it wasn't as grose as she thought it would be. I dunno.

I might have been able to do a different treatment on the velvet if it had come home in better shape. But we drug it a long ways (by the horns). And there was no place to keep the head cool between the locker in Lakeview and the taxidermist's a day and a half later. It was starting to get loose.

I hadn't seen this treatment before. That's why I thought I'd share it.

tag-a-long · 10-21-2005, 03:09 PM

Sweet mount!!

jokester · 10-21-2005, 05:07 PM

Looks awesome GRB

Gotta love those velvety bucks and bulls

-jokester

sliverpicker · 10-21-2005, 06:33 PM

I wonder if that "fuzzy" stuff will work for us lads that are topknot challenged?

You need one of the walnut pedastel's to mount it on, then you could display it on your dining room table!

Lookin' good GRB!

OuterLimits · 10-21-2005, 07:02 PM

Nice mount and rack!

Gun Rod Bow · 10-22-2005, 04:58 PM

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I wonder if that "fuzzy" stuff will work for us lads that are topknot challenged?

When Rick called and told me it was ready, he said it was the opposite of my head...smooth on the bottom and fuzzy on top.

Anywhere's indoors will be good for me there "stumpy"

Hawgs n Harleys · 10-23-2005, 08:00 AM

Cool looking mount. Sure to get alot of attention where ever you hang it. -Steve

BrotherWolf · 10-23-2005, 02:00 PM

LOOKS GREAT!... Bruce how did your daughter like the 243 ?