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LAST EDITED ON Aug-25-09 AT 12:17PM (MST)[p]How goes it,
On a few occassions, I've seen guys take a shoulder blade or piece of a spine or neck vertabrate...with the broadhead still lodged or buried inside of it, and preserve it. The most common place I've seen them displayed is on a table or counter, hanging from their rear view, etc. I actually think it's a really cool extra little "trophy" from your hunt and especially a great conversation starter. I've always wanted to have one...just to have because I think they're neat, but have never been lucky enough to smack an animal in the bone...all of my stick & string kills have been heart & lung shots, thankfully. However less than 2 weeks ago on opening morning of the archery season here in Utah...I harvested my very first Pronghorn Antelope. And as luck would have it, I struck my goat in the lower neck portion of the spine. Now I've got a chunk of vertabrate with my 85 gr. NAP Thunderhead in the middle of it!
One of my best friends owns his own Taxidermy Studio & Game Processing shop...he's really good, and recieves all of my meat processing & taxidermy business. Anyway...his only reccomendation in order to remove the meat from the bone and clean it, was to boil it and cut off the remaining softened meat. As soon as my antelope meat was processed and ready to pick up...I was also able to pick up the section of bone with my broadhead inside. As soon as I made it home, I started to heat a deep pot of water and began to boil the bone. After a couple hours of non-stop boiling, I pulled the bone out...and tried to scrape & remove as much meat as I possibly could. I actually removed probably 85% of the meat...but there is still a decent amount of cartilage & meat I can't remove. My next idea was to leave it outside, and allow the fly's and other insects to try and "pick it clean"...however not much progress has been made going that route.
So...I now pose this question: Are there any of you (taxidermists) out there who have done this for a customer before...or have any other ideas or suggestions to help me get to where I need to be? Any help and advice would be sincerely appreciated...thanks in advance. Below is a perfect photo example of exactly what I'm talking about...just in case I haven't described what I'm talking about well enough
Thanks,
Brad Bentley
On a few occassions, I've seen guys take a shoulder blade or piece of a spine or neck vertabrate...with the broadhead still lodged or buried inside of it, and preserve it. The most common place I've seen them displayed is on a table or counter, hanging from their rear view, etc. I actually think it's a really cool extra little "trophy" from your hunt and especially a great conversation starter. I've always wanted to have one...just to have because I think they're neat, but have never been lucky enough to smack an animal in the bone...all of my stick & string kills have been heart & lung shots, thankfully. However less than 2 weeks ago on opening morning of the archery season here in Utah...I harvested my very first Pronghorn Antelope. And as luck would have it, I struck my goat in the lower neck portion of the spine. Now I've got a chunk of vertabrate with my 85 gr. NAP Thunderhead in the middle of it!
One of my best friends owns his own Taxidermy Studio & Game Processing shop...he's really good, and recieves all of my meat processing & taxidermy business. Anyway...his only reccomendation in order to remove the meat from the bone and clean it, was to boil it and cut off the remaining softened meat. As soon as my antelope meat was processed and ready to pick up...I was also able to pick up the section of bone with my broadhead inside. As soon as I made it home, I started to heat a deep pot of water and began to boil the bone. After a couple hours of non-stop boiling, I pulled the bone out...and tried to scrape & remove as much meat as I possibly could. I actually removed probably 85% of the meat...but there is still a decent amount of cartilage & meat I can't remove. My next idea was to leave it outside, and allow the fly's and other insects to try and "pick it clean"...however not much progress has been made going that route.
So...I now pose this question: Are there any of you (taxidermists) out there who have done this for a customer before...or have any other ideas or suggestions to help me get to where I need to be? Any help and advice would be sincerely appreciated...thanks in advance. Below is a perfect photo example of exactly what I'm talking about...just in case I haven't described what I'm talking about well enough
Thanks,
Brad Bentley
