Just took apart my first turkey mount to make a fan mount out of it. it was mounted about ten months ago and looked real bad. Anyhow, tonight I was messing around with the legs and taking the scales off of the leg bone just to do it and man it stunk and had grease all over it. My methods were remove the legs at the knee joint, cut the joint off slit pad to remove tendons, drill treaded rod through leg and back out to clean marrow out of bone, sew up pad then redrill rod mount bird rebuild knee joint with critter clay and install legs on bird and super glue feather line to leg. Then injected the toes with bird feet injection fluid let dry. I checked the skin and it had no grease that could have ran down the legs so I am just wondering what I did wrong.
? should I have soaked the legs and injected at points all of the way up or what?
Joey A
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I think you have already figured out what may have gone wrong. When you inject the legs use plenty of your preservtive. Also by injecting high on the leg gravity will help distribute the fluid down the leg. We start at the knee joint ant work out way down. Use plenty of preservative. Hope this helps.
Chip
Thats what I was thinking as I reread my post and for the life of me can't figure out why I didn't do the legs. But they will be done from here on out. The bird didn't really look that bad but I shot two more this here and plan on mounting them so I was just making room and looking at the skin to see how my cleaning was holding up.