quick way to patch a bullet hole

[George Roof]

Well, Michael, since there's no such thing as 110% except in your imagination, I suppose that about covers it.  Quit being so damned lazy and sew the hole up. No one was talking about EARS here.

[mike108]

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL I love this site!

[FreeSpirit (Wayne)]

where else can you have this much fun and Pi$$ in somebody's corn flakes and laugh about it

[JL]

Ayuh....What George said. All of it.

[Roger E]

A hole the size of the one on this deer is easier for me to sew after it is mounted than it is for me to pin after it is mounted, in the rare case I would "discover" a hole I had neglected earlier.

[tomdes]

I remember Sallies method and I have to agree it was a slip area in the hide that she didn't notice until it was mounted. So she cut out the narrow slip area an pinned it together. I've done this before and it works, but if I noticed the area before I mounted it, then I would cut and sew before I mounted it, it's just common sense..

[Roger E]

Looks like you did a great of applying that technique...

[deerstuffer]

Lonewolf, thanks for showing "ANOTHER" way to do something.  It is too bad that some or the arrogant oldies think that there is "NO OTHER" way than "THEIR" way.  I would sew usually, but have done it that way too and they both worked.  Please don't let the bullies keep anyone reading from posting new ideas and techniques.

[George Roof]

Spare me that bullsh1t deerstuffer (guess the name says it all).  There's a right way to do things, there's a half-assed way of doing things and then there's the wrong way of doing them.  In over 50 years I've seen more damned stapled, nailed, bradded and pinned hides than you've mounted deer, and EVERY ONE OF THEM will eventually show.  Oh YOU don't have to worry about it as it's out of your shop and gone, but someone will.  Any of you who use DP ESPECIALLY are setting your customers up for this.  Now if me telling you that you're too damned lazy to do it correctly where it'll last a lifetime makes me "arrogant" and a "bully", then I'm damned glad I'm an arrogant bully instead of lazy.  You probably boil Dall sheep horns off the cores as well.

[KevinH]

Well, I guess I tapdanced around this one initially, but it still grates at me.  Sorry, but this method is just pure damned laziness and shoddy work.  No other definitions apply.  This hole could and SHOULD have been repaired like all others just before the hide is put on the manikin.  You won't have to worry about glue oozing through or not being able to taxi the skin properly.  I don't care if you pin it, nail it, brad it or staple it, it's still sh1twork and if you take any pride in your work YOU SHOULD SEW IT UP.

Ill have to agree with George on this one.  And even if I noticed the hole after the hide was on I still sew it somehow, either from the hair side or flip it over get glue all over myself and do it from the flesh side.

[dhart]

I am weighing in on this issue in favor of George.  Most of those who think pinning are young and are not thinking long term.  George's point of view is based on many years of experience.  The piece you perform taxidermy on is your legacy, how do you want to be remembered 25 years from now when they look at the mount?  It may look good now and even a few years from now, but, think long term.  Your taxidermy work gives you immortality, how do you want to be remembered?

[deerstuffer]

Just go to George's website.  The very first picture is of a deer that looks like it has a bullet hole in it's shoulder that wasn't sewn or pinned. Or maybe it was just DP'd.

[George Roof]

PLEASE go to my website and look at the Epo-Grip deer.  Now make sure your read it carefully, but PLEASE GO.  The deer was shot on opening day of BOW SEASON (Sept. 1) here in Delaware and what you see is the classic "paint job" hair of an early season red-headed deer with a Muzzy broadhead stuck right in it's neck.  It was SEWN with 6 pound Fireline and mounted on a base coat of Epo-Grip Epoxy Hide paste.  It was just a deer done to show what Epo-Grip could do in forming details, but it serves as a CLASSIC of what can happen even under the most trying of circumstances using PROPER PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUE.  I can only imagine what it might have looked like had I used the half assed method deerstuffer would like for me to endorse.

Take a look:  http://www.whitetaildesignersystems.com/WhitetailDeerTaxidermyMountPhotos.html
Please take note that it's in the "stories" section of the site.  Please also note that the deer is in the shop drying and has not yet been finished. Here's a closer look at both the cape and the cut:

[Ryan.]

im all for sewing, ive never pinned, stapled, or nailed a hide in place...thread only.
but for what it is worth.....
a guy dropped a mount his dad killed in the early 70's and chipped the tips of a couple points and wanted it fixed....guess what?
i was examining it and just rubbing my hands over trying to see if there was any stitches, i didnt find any stitches but i did find a cut about three inches long that had been pinned......it wasnt visible to the human eye

[deerstuffer]

Thanks Ryan for posting. I won't argue that holes shouldn't be sewn, but I would never be arrogant enough to claim "my way is the only way".  Guys like that is the reason I don't frequent this site any more than I do.  Thanks again to the original poster for showing another way to do something, even if its not the most popular opinion.