Any great tips.....There are times they go good and there is the other times........I know the time froze is a factor but looking for a great tip....The one of today not in the old news
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Sprayed them with stop-rot while I was splitting everything else and had no problem. The cartilage once tanned even removed very easy.
Turning ears hasn't really changed that much since we started using liners in them. Now if YOU leave them in the freezer and allow them to freezedry (freezer burn), that's an entirely different proposition. Stop Rot saves a lot of slackard work where we used to have to inject them with warm salty water and wait days to get them workable. It would have been easier just to turn them green to begin with. Some older deer are tough as are the early season, flea bitten ones, and Stop Rot's not going to help you on those.
That is what it takes. I probably do ears differently than most. I do not split the cartilage, but rather unravel it from the bottom of the ear. if doing a deer that is tough. I simply separate the skin from the back of the ear, salt and tan the hide. Then remove the cartilage after tanning. I think it is best to take your time, and look at the sinew between the skin and cartilage, it will tell you when it is about to go awry
"Some older deer are tough as are the early season, flea bitten ones, and Stop Rot's not going to help you on those."
I only make advertising claims when I'm pretty sure that anyone that can read instuctions and then carry them out can get results. The quote above is contrary to personal experience, customer experience reports and my advertising claims, other than about the flea bitten ones, I have never seen flea bitten deer ears in spite of having gone through two flea epidemics in this area in the last number of years. My horses never showed any indications of flea infestations during those times either.
If anyone has any experience with the product not performing as claimed, I really need to know that so that appropriate action can be taken.
There is room to post below this thread, my e-mail address is noted above, my toll FREE number is 1-886-849-9198.
Glen Conley
Whitetail Designer Systems, Inc.
The toll free number above SHOULD read:
1-866-849-9198
I called Hilton Eppley to place an order and wanted to include some Stop Rot. His wife said there was none in stock because you were to hard to get a hold of. Now, about those "appropriate actions".(LOL) Peace. Jeff F.
would be to point out that contacting me is actually pretty simple.
There are two toll free numbers to chose from at two different locations:
1-866-849-9198
1-877-861-5679
Allowing travel time, and two to three hours out of each day in which I am gone, I am at one number or the other seven days a week.
In the event of my actual absense, my e-mail address is posted above. The office computer e-mail address WhitetailDesign@aol.com is on probably every piece of paper that has ever left the company.
The FAX number is 1-765-966-9866 and on a separate telephone line.
All the above is also available on a number of web pages.
Hard to get hold of, huh? You just did in not a great number of minutes.
Didn't mean to ruffle any feathers. Only figured I'd pass on what I was told since I know you and Hilton are friends. I know they're also quite busy with convention season in full swing.