05-30-2013, 09:23 PM
Good to know. I hope to have something that needs cleaned up come fall.
Do you know if the beetles clean a deer skull with the velvet on and not ruin it? I would love to have a european mount in velvet. I tried one several years ago. I froze the skull for a year then let the bugs have at it in the yard. The velvet didn't look too bad, but I guess the UV rays were hard on the skull because it was very brittle and ended up falling apart on me.
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Do you know if the beetles clean a deer skull with the velvet on and not ruin it? I would love to have a european mount in velvet. I tried one several years ago. I froze the skull for a year then let the bugs have at it in the yard. The velvet didn't look too bad, but I guess the UV rays were hard on the skull because it was very brittle and ended up falling apart on me.
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