Cleaning Mounted Deer

[ourway7]

Can anyone tell me the best way to clean Deer mounted they have become not as clean as when first mounted, while not that dirty, and no one smokes in our household. Any information would be greatly appreciated ;D Lou

[mamaflinter]

That's a good question. I'll be waiting to hear the answer to that one myself. We have 2 mounted deerin the living room. Oddly enough they were taken 10 years apart. They both need cleaning, but especially the older one. You see we have a wood/coal stove in our house for heat and it makes lots of dust.

[HighTeckRedneck]

I am also interested in how it should be done. I currently have 3 mounts soon to be 4. All I have ever done is wipe them with a damp cloth and that seems to work well, but I always fear that the hair will start falling out when I do it.

[Bayouman]

Run dust brush over(magnetic type) or vac on very low suction with soft brush. Then use very lightly damponed cotton cloth to go over.

[mamaflinter]

Bayouman I've run damp cloth and vaccum with soft brush over them. My problem is due to the smoke over the years from wood/coal stove, the throat patch is no longer white.....How do you clean it up?


HTR I've wiped these mounts with damp cloth for years and have never seen any hair come out.

[Bayouman]

Mama, try a very mild soap such as dove diluted in water with a litely dampened cloth. If that doesnt work i would leave as is.

[Tenbears]

Blowing a mount of, dusting, and wiping with a damp rag are all good maintenance gleaning techniques.
When a mount becomes old, and stained with smoke and grease. The best way to restore it to near new appearance is to clean it with seybrite trophy cleaner. Check out WWW.seybrite.com

[RAF]

I have a mount of a buck shot 42 years ago. It hung in my parents home when I was younger, my home later and since 1984 in my cabin at the lake. The only thing I've done to it is vaccum the cobwebs off it and dust the antlers. Because of it's age I'm reluctant to apply any chemicals. Should I be worried.

[Bayouman]

Looks great to me! I would just keep like ur doing for the next 42 years. ;D

[Tenbears]

I agree with bayouman. the mount looks incredibly well. I only recommend cleaning of yellow smoke stained mounts. If it ain't broke, don't fix it

[mamaflinter]

That's a great looking mount RAF. You're definitely doing something right. LOL

Thanks for the advice Tenbears. I'll check out that site.

[lukemacgillie]

Damp cloth is the way to go. then go over the mount softly with a brush to restore the hair

[redhawk1]

My taxidermist tells me to use a soft cloth with a light coat of furniture polish. I have done it for over 10 years now and my mounts always look very good. Follow the way the hair lies, do not go agents the hair.

[wildman]

same as red hawk said but my taxi said to use boiled linseed oil on antlers after dusting makes antlers shine.