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How long potentially can you store salted and dried skins, without hair slippage before tanning for mounts?
 
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If the hide is properly fleshed and salt dried and kept in a dry environment it can last forever, however the hair may become brittle with age and become fragile
Tanned hides will eventually dry rot


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If you can store frozen, and it's something like deer or antelope hides, they can keep well for several years.


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Remounted my kudu using a TANNED cape I had in the freezer for ten years.


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Posts: 4848 | Location: Clute, Texas | Registered: 12 January 2005Reply With Quote
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Good to read this. I have a small deer cape
in the freezer about 5 yrs now. Been
wondering if it can be any good still.

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I would ask Jerry Huffaker who posts here about this. Unfrozen, and only salted/dried they suffer a bit.
 
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How long potentially can you store salted and dried skins, without hair slippage before tanning for mounts?

Depends on which animal and what climate. A few years should be ok, but definitely should be avoided if possible.


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Good to read this. I have a small deer cape
in the freezer about 5 yrs now. Been
wondering if it can be any good still.

George


Freezer burn is your enemy here. Salt also absorbs moisture from the air readily.

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Its not a good idea unless you have to do it, but I wouldn't waste my money on a hide that was over a year old..Id rather buy another, it stands to reason that it suffers from storage of any kind..Just speaking for myself, Ive reached the point that pictures surfice, have no more room short of a new house..I would donate all my trophies to one of the sporting goods stores in town, but my wife like them, guess she got attached..She says her house is Southwest African..


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I made the mistake of having salted hides being shipped from New Caledonia. Taxidermist sent them here and the three capes all slipped for some reason. Now I have no rusa capes. Maybe get them tanned before shipping next trips.
 
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Wet tanned capes/hides that are kept frozen will last for years. However, if they are flint (salted and dried) and left unattended, rodents will love the salty snack; other insects might find the hair a treat, especially the moth family. If they are in the USA, have them wet tanned if possible, then bag, tag and freeze.


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