Got My Osceola Back Today

Nice mount, congradulations. h.h.

Very nice!

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It has to be freeze dried it looks to good to be one of the plastic ones.Plus you can see the little hairs on it too.

It is a freeze dried head. All Moore's Taxidermy turkey mounts have Cally Morris heads on them.
Here is some more of his work.

How would you clean them with a wet rag? Towel? What.....your know it all.....

Never use any moisture on a bird. Nothing will make your birds look worse than allowing anything moist to come in contact with the feathers, especially game-birds. When feathers get wet they clump-up and even when they dry-out they stay clumped. The only thing we recommend using to our customers as a large face brush made by Maybelle and sold in the make-up dept at your local stores. This brush has bristles that are about 1 1/2-2 in. long and about 1 1/4 in diam. and very soft. The ladies can tell you what to get if you ask for this. This brush is used in our shop to clean everything from birds to fish and will not damage in any way. Keep it clean and do not let your wife or girlfriend use it for makeup and you should be okay. As a matter of fact we keep ours in the plastic tube it comes in and only get it out for cleaning. This keeps all contaminates off and prevents any problems. If any one has any questions please feel free to pm me I will try to help.

after the bird is skinned and degreased we wash three times in dawn dish soap to remove any residual grease and then rinse in 4-5 changes of cool water to remove all the soap residue. Then the bird is hung up to drip drain for 30-40-mins. and tumbled in corncob sawdust to remove almost all the remaining moisture, Then the downy feathers are blown completely dry with warm air from a shopvac and hairdryer as needed. Telling someone to wipe their bird with a damp towel may mean something entirely different to them. If they wipe with the clean makeup brush there is no chance they will do any damage. Depending on what type of paint was used on the head of your turkey, a damp towel may cause the paint to start to lift and it could possibly rehydrate the head enough that it will start to swell ever so slightly and again cause the paint to lift off . if the head does begin to rehydrate even the slightest bit, the skin, being simply dried-out in the freeze dry machine, will begin to allow all the oils released by the drying of the cells and subsequent cell wall collapse in the skin to start coming to the surface. Once this happens there is nothing that can be done except head replacement. Depending on what procedures were used to attach the skin, this could be basically impossible without destroying the mount. All this from a damp towel. I have mounts that I travel with around to banquets with that have been together for close to 10 yrs. and have been to at least 50 banquets, that look as good as day one. The abuse these birds have seen is extreme compared to what the average mount sees once it goes home and they look as good as new. Moisture of any type is the enemy and should be avoided .

Yea, for real, but it looks great anyway! Nice mounts!