Antlers

[Globetrotter.uk]

If I find another Road kill deer , is it ok to remove the antlers? and what is the best method.

 

[hiraeth]

A hacksaw will do the job just cut under the coronet, dosnt take a couple of minutes.

 

[john scrivy]

then carefully wrap them and post them to me many thanks

 

[Diamond Dave]

then carefully wrap them and post them to me many thanks

or me..................................

 

[Mike Ameling]

When I find a roadkill deer that still has antlers, I just grag the hatchet from under the seat of my pickup and do several quick "chops" around the skull where the antlers are growing - forehead, back of the head, and between the antler and the ears. A couple chops and you can usually pull the antler and the skull section free. You might need to cut some hide that's still attached. Be careful of sharp bone fragments/splinters.

Back home I then usually use a hacksaw or small handsaw to trim the skull fragments away from the crown (base) of the antler. The more "bone" you leave attached to the base of the antler, the more you have to carve into interesting shapes.

Just my humble thoughts to share. Take them as such.

Mikey - yee ol' grumpy blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[primitive man]

if anyone has spare antler id be grateful to have it

 

[warthog1981]

I just use my laplander saw

 

[SAS_MAN]

if anyone has spare antler id be grateful to have it

i dont under stand what you mean by antler id. If its big its a red deer and if its small its a roe deer.

 

[Staghound]

i dont under stand what you mean by antler id. If its big its a red deer and if its small its a roe deer.

Greetings from pedants corner.

Just to be really awkward where Globetrotter is (Norfolk?) they could also be fallow, muntjac or Chinese water deer.

 

[primitive man]

no sas man you ve got mxed up what it says is if anyone has any antler spare (id ) for i would be grateful for it and yes it is very easy to identify the different deer species, many thanks alex

 

[robwolf]

chiise water deer dont have antlers there could also be some sika about as well as kilverstone had a herd in the 90,s