Hey y’all! My name is Daniel Williams and I’d like to welcome y’all to my channel! After an aortic dissection in 2021 I made the decision to document and share my experiences as a full time taxidermist, hunter, and fisherman. I love to teach, so feel free to ask questions in the comments and I’ll do my best to help! It is free to subscribe, and by also ringing the notification bell you will get updates on all new content and can show your support free of charge just by watching! Thanks to everyone and as always, God bless!!!
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I’ve been wanting to do taxidermy since i was a kid but don’t live near a school or any shops accepting apprenticeships 😭 how do you prepare the hide for mounting?
If you will go to my taxidermy playlist I have how to videos on fleshing and salting a cape and tanning and mounting a deer. There are tons of vids explaining every step of the process. Some of the vids are old, but informative and will get you where you need to be. Go check it out!
Love Steven! Met em down in gulf shores. He’s a heck of a dude! Just ordered my stuff from McKenzie to do a 132” 8 i shot last season. Kinda nervous but already know you got my back with your videos 💪🏻
Love it man you keep grinding sir. I'm gearing up for Hunting season Antelope starts next month here in South Dakota I'm hoping to be super busy again this year
That's exactly right the way I do it what makes it better for me is I krowtan everything then when I get it all done I lay down clean it up to my flashing stretch out what I got there and then I measure my form put it back in the freezer and wake them up warm gets here I never had a problem that's just the way I do it I don't do a lot of deer heads so mostly for my friends and me
north georgia is where i go bear hunting and i seen mulitple bears every year, i have only seen 1 deer in all my hunts. the bioligist up there says the bears kill the fawns like crazy. i believe it.
Thanks Daniel for the tip! I'm sure you know the old timers never like to share info back in the old days. It sure is good to see you putting out great content and helpful information for young and old alike. No matter what the skill level. Thanks again for sharing! Doug HZA
Thank you! Some of the older taxis are still pretty stingy, but in the age of the internet there are no more secrets! This day in time it’s more a matter of who is willing to actually try anything themselves rather than pay it done.
I'm doing my first pack mount right now. Customer wants the mount to have the hide rolled up with the tail hanging out, so I have the whole thing here tanned, in house with pro 1 products. How would you roll it up so that the tail hangs out without detaching the head section from the cape? Looks like here that you have it all as one cape. Secondly, is it necessary to use the whole cape? My plans are to let it start drying after mounting the head and leave it spread out for a day or two before rolling up. Any advice here?
really just debating on hacking off the cape as if it were a shoulder mount and roll it up. without cutting the head from the rest Im not sure how you'd do it. and then what do you do with the open neck?
I do cut the head off and leave about a foot of cape or so to tuck behind the roll. Also, I like to use the whole cape because it makes a nice large roll but make sure as it dries to stretch and break it so it can be rolled once it is dry
@@thecedarridgechronicles ok awesome. so you literally cut the head off like a foot below where the form stops? do you roll it into the hide or just tuck it behind the rolled cape?
I’d be the second! I’m in Bham. Love this channel! I did my first full turkey mount for myself a few months ago. I had sooo much fun! I have a lot to work on but learning.
I opened my own taxidermist business in Elkton MD called Oakridge taxidermist and I owe it all too you I have learned everything I know to your channel thank you so much my business is doing very well my wife and daughter has health problems so I have to stay home to take care of them and I didn't know how I was going to do it until I watched your videos and it all just clicked and now I work from home and we are doing very well thank you soooo much god is good
Just remember days like that when you are having a bad day at the shop. I have a delivery business and rainy days and traffic are my nemesis! You are blessed to work from home!..👌👍
@@thecedarridgechronicles haha. By the way I listened to your episode about old school hunting on that podcast and man I have used a lot of the things you said a lot here in east Texas. That old man was teaching… his tactics work!
Fishing like that compared to bass and bluegill will wear you out. I caught a nice bull shark couple years ago and i wasn't use to fish that strong. My whole body was worn out fighting that thing.
Bucks making loops / circles ,is that a daily or seasonal behavior or how does that work and how do u actually try to set up to hunt a buck on the loop ? I've found that the bucks here in central north Carolina will make loops / circle , travel from one farm to the other and travel in circle until they get back to where they started from but this sometimes takes a day , night, days , weeks so I'm not sure how to actually know when or where to be and how to capitalize off this behavior... I don't use cameras !
Specifically rut movement and it could be days before making the loop. A month ago I did a podcast with The Southern Outdoorsman Podcast. On RU-vid the episode is 1 hour 45 minutes and is called “This will change the way you hunt deer”. This is specifically what I am talking about if you want to give it a listen. They made several shorter videos with that episode around the same time about rut loops, but you’ll want to hear the uncut version to hear the whole process. I think you’ll enjoy it and hopefully benefit from it.
