Elk skin shedding hair

[tcrhunter]

Elk skin shedding hair

Ok, few years back I got a bull in Colorado, and I had the skin tanned, but now it started to shead its hair and the wife is not that happy about.
What do I do ? There is any fix for it ? Or how can I get the hair off, that I can use the skin ?
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[spectr17]

Once the hide starts pulling hair there's not much you can do. It's usually from bacteria in the hide that does this, meaning the hide wasn't keep cool and was allowed to let bacteria start to grow. Check in the taxidermy forum if there is anything you can do to slow it down or stop it. I had a deer hide that did this and I just turned it into buckskin.

 

[Glass eye]

What jesse said is true of fresh hides, but does not apply to tanned hides. I doubt that the hairs are "shedding" but rather they are breaking off. Elk hair is stiff and hollow like a straw and they do not make good throw rugs.
Caribou is the worst. Nothing is wrong with your hide, it's the nature of the beast.

 

[spectr17]

Breck, the one deer hide I was talking about was a tanned hide. If you raked your fingers through it a lot of whole hairs came out. Is there anything you can do for that? What would cause that?

 

[Glass eye]

Breck, the one deer hide I was talking about was a tanned hide. If you raked your fingers through it a lot of whole hairs came out. Is there anything you can do for that? What would cause that?

Insects would do that. Particularly boweevils, they eat at the base of the hair (and feathers) and effectively cut them down like beavers gnawing at a tree until it falls. You don't notice their handywork until you touch your mount and it starts falling apart.
They almost always leave little empty hulls of their bodies, kinda like a snake shedding its skin.
Fumigate the mount/skin with just about any Raid killer. Or, if you got room in the freezer, freeze it for about a month.

 

[Huntr Pat]

Kinda weird I have couple Tule cow elk hides I kept after some hunt. I fleshed the hides really well and salted them was with dawn. pour a little more salt evenly. wash it out and let it dry its hard as a cardboard sitting in the garage. ONE day I'll have it tanned. I have 4 black tail deer hide done the same. still store in the garage.

 

[goindeep]

Sounds like it wasn't prepared correctly before it went to the tanner, or it wasn't tanned properly. I shot a buck in nevada back in 2002, I fleshed and salted the cape myself incase some day I wanted to mount it. about 5 years later I deciced to get it mounted, the taxidermist wasn't to sure about the cape since it had been around for a while but he sent it to the tanner and it came back perfect.