Pre-Rotated Eyes Or Not? What Is Your Preference?

[NickyG]

JUST CURIOUS....I PREFER THE TOHICKAN PRE-ROTAED EYES...THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL....  YOU CAN SEE A PICTURE OF ME IN JOHN RINEHART'S CATALOG NEAR THE SWAMP BOOGER!!!  lol lol!!!

[joe simmons]

it all depends on what kind of eye set your looking for if your not doing any eye rotation then the pre 's are the ones to use, i use both

[jessicaj]

The only time you should use pre-rotated eyes is when you are doing an eye roll, or the deer is looking very hard in one direction. OTher wise you should never see the white of the eyes.

[Rickey logan]

Most of the time, you don't see white. But if he looks left or right there it is!!!!!

[George Roof]

I despise them. They have no "true" eye shape and you're locked into having your deer look one way or another.  The Joe Meder or the IQ eye or any of the "true eyes" will allow you to mimmick nature and rotate the eye as little or as much as you'd like.

[Matt]

I offer the pre-rotated eye as an option to my customers and most of them go with them once they see them in a mount.

[Bill Yox]

I use the Eppley eye with scelera in every mount I do, and almost always rotate them for direction. I dont care for prerotated, or shifted artwork eyes. I realize some like them best, I prefer to rotate accurate eyes to my needs.

[catskillmtn]

Hey,nick i looked at you in the catalog ,boy you are one ugly dude .you kind of resemble Bill Yox. haaaaaaaaa.   Hey Yox,i am going to be fishing on the little sandy all next week and want to stop by to see ya and the deer.ill call ya .  Ronnie L.

[ljones]

 who sells the eppley eyes bill yox is refering to.

[Bill Yox]

Lol, youre not supposed to allow that much white to show! Brad Eppely sells the Eppely eyes, as does most of the suppliers. Ron, yep, just give me a call.

[Mark V.]

I don't like the prerotated eyes either and prefer little to no white showing on my mounts. I had a customer come in today that had a head done by another local taxidermist and said both eyes showed white front and back on a upright with a slight turn and thought it looked very goofy. I explained to him that on that type of pose no white or just a hint on one of the other in the back maybe but not much. I know this guy went to a school in Iowa and learned whitetail taxidermy from a world champion down there so I would have assumed he would have learned proper eye setting. One of my friends that does taxidermy will go round and round with me about showing alot of white in the front of the eyes on his mounts I still swear he puts them in backwards but I'm no judge or out to judge his work if it makes him money and happy so be it,Mark V.

[Bill Yox]

For the sake of white vs no white, I can say its there for sure. My live bucks, and how they turn their eyes before turning the head further is real, not interpretation. The difference, however, might well be how the skin shrinks away and exposes too much on mounts, or is set or rotated incorrectly. But its there, for those who want that degree of realism, or that style of mount. With taxidermy, personal taste does enter the equation.

[Glen Conley]

See the sad look in this buck's eye?  You know why that is?  'Cause he ain't got no white scelera like all the other bucks!

Bill, ask your daughter about scelera color and inheritance.  Ask her what horse breed REQUIRES a white scelera to be elgibile for registration.

I know it's a copyrighted photo, but it's my photo.  It's one off of one of the WTDS reference disks.  I put these disks together like that in order so's a feller can get educated.  Where did I go wrong?  No text with the photos?  So who is right, and who is wrong on deer having/not having white scelera?

[George Roof]

Uh, Glen, maybe it's these old eyes or maybe even a bad transfer of your intended picture, but damned if I don't see white behind that faded brown band of scleral tissue (you know, the brown with the black dot in it) and IF it is white I see, that's just about as much as I ever show.  This guy looks all rutted up anyway and his eyes seem swollen to me, but God made'em with white sclera and so does Tohickon and those are the ones I use. LOL

[Jims Wildlife Studio]

  I prefer the MederIQ and the 250IQ on all of my deer mount's.