cleaning our mounts

[mrlongbeard]

whats the best thing to do as far as cleaning deer mounts and bird mounts. the dust seems to get into everything on our mounts

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Re: deer and gameheads
« Reply #2 on Apr 3, 2007, 6:56pm »

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you can clean your mounts with a soft terry cloth lightly dampened with a furniture polish. wipe in the same direction of the hair do not saturate the mount though. clean your eyes off with windex dipped q-tip. you should have your mounts moth proofed once a year , a local good taxidermist can sell you a mothproofer cleaner or i can sell you a bottle . if your antlers are dull looking mix linseed oil and turpentine oil 50/50 paint on antlers and let dry will add life to them wd-40 works on the lope horns as well.hope this helps some
take care COPIED FROM GAME HEADS IN THIS FOURM

[mrlongbeard]

thanks guy will try this out. pm me with the price on the moth proofing.

[loggy]

I just gently vacuum or take a damp cloth to remove dust from hair. You can use Windex on the eyes and on the antlers.

[VaPa hunter]

I just use one of those feather dusters. It works well for the turkey and the deer. My turkey mount is a flying bird with the tail fan all spread out, and is pretty fragile. But I have found the feather duster works the best as opposed to a vacum-little too risky.