How to make an antler

[Rusty]

Our daughter shot a big 8 pointer that had dropped one side, when we found it the other side had fallen off too.  She was hoping for a skull mount so I spent several weeks scouring the woods looking for the shed antler, but no luck.  I reached out to several taxidermists about making a matching antler but they all said the same thing,  you can make copies of an existing antler but you can't make the opposite side.  Well it took a month of trial and error but I was finally able to make a matching antler.        

[Rusty]

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Edited January 19 by Rusty

[paula]

Great job, amazing how side jobs pop up 😁

[Splitear]

That looks amazing!

[mowin]

Wow, great job. 

[Otto]

 Nice work!   You’ll probably find that other side on your next walk out.

[cervidchasers]

Labor of love

Your daughter will remember it forever!

[crappyice]

Very impressive...I hope you called back the taxidermist and showed them!

[grampy]

Amazing work! Looks great! Nice job Dad.

[Rusty]

7 hours ago, crappyice said:

Very impressive...I hope you called back the taxidermist and showed them!

One of them just used this technique on a client's mount.    

[crappyice]

Not knocking your decision at all but I think I would have cleaned up the skull and somehow displayed the antler as a shed with the skull...hopefully adding the other half if found.

[mowin]

2 hours ago, Rusty said:

One of them just used this technique on a client's mount.    

Just curious, did you develop this technique, or did you research on how to? If you developed it, I hope you bartered with the taxidermist for a future mount, lol. 

Either way impressive. 

Edited January 19 by mowin

[maddie]

very nice thank you for posting,  I'm sure your not the only one who has had this problem.

[Steuben Jerry]

Wow, that’s a great job!

[Chef]

Great work on that antler, shot this half rack last year during the rut, the socked was still open and full of green puss, figured he was a fighter and got him mounted