I am having a hell of a time withspliting lips and eye details on white tail deer can anyone help me out here, or give some advise? Like do you salt first or what you use to make this easier?
thanks to all who reply it is greatly needed!
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They get easier. I have a feeling you only have a few deer under your belt. Do a few more. Use a new blade on your scalpel. A nice sharp edge makes splitting lips 10 times easier. If you don't have a scalpel, get one and 100 blades.
which blade do you prefer pointed or rounded
Removing all the meat will take skills that you can develope along the way. I use a #22 mostly and go through 4 or 5 on each deerhead.
I very small fleshing beam may help you.
I use a #22 on the larger areas, #10 on the lips/eyes/nose. They require different size handles. It takes me about 30-45 min. to turn the eyes/lips/nose/ears. (But I've also mounted well over 600 deer!) I'm sure there are people out there who can do it much faster, though. Like John said, a small fleshing 'horn' is really handy. I have one that is made of some type of dense plastic, with a rounded end and a pointed end. Really handy tool. Not sure which supplier I got it from.
Good luck! :)
an experienced taxisdermist do this is 15 minutes - no it wasn't me - he used a pathologists blade