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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 NRA Life Member, ILL Rifle Assoc Life Member, Navy | |||
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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. Hunting.... it's not everything, it's the only thing. | |||
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Remounted my kudu using a TANNED cape I had in the freezer for ten years. _______________________ | |||
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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 "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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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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Depends on which animal and what climate. A few years should be ok, but definitely should be avoided if possible. | |||
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Freezer burn is your enemy here. Salt also absorbs moisture from the air readily. Grizz Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln Only one war at a time. Abe Again. | |||
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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.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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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. Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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