Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on November 19, 2015, 10:09:41 pm
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I am doing some skull mounts on 3 bucks. Yesterday I cooked and cleaned them. I noticed something strange on one of the bucks teeth. They looked like they had been spray painted gold. I do 4 or 5 skull mounts a year for friends and family and I've never seen anything like this. It must have been something he was eating but I can't figure out what it could be. It was killed a few miles away from our property so it couldn't have that big of difference in diet. It looks like a thin coating of something gold color on the teeth. Its very strange looking.
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151118_180724_zpsacgjiupj.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151118_180724_zpsacgjiupj.jpg.html)
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151118_180734_zpsrbd9zm7b.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151118_180734_zpsrbd9zm7b.jpg.html)
(http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv22/Outlawstaves/20151118_180805_zpsaakgadcl.jpg) (http://s666.photobucket.com/user/Outlawstaves/media/20151118_180805_zpsaakgadcl.jpg.html)
And for a comparison, here it is with a normal bucks jaw bone on top. Every deer skull I've ever cleaned looked like the top one.
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Looks like the flav a flav of white tails Clint
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He had his grill on! ;D Can you scrape it off?
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I haven't tried to scrape it off yet. When I first saw it I thought it must be eating the same thing as all those rappers.
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did he have his rack on sideways? lol Tony
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Dang it Bub - just shot coffee all over the lap-top ;). That's pretty weird Clint. Bob
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Me to Bob, now that was funny. ;D ;D No idea Clint. :)
Pappy
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Since there gold he was prob eating that yeller gold that grows everywhere down your way ;) :laugh:
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Yea that's a little unusual for sure.....lol.I do my skulls here and for other people too.I'd just leave em the way they are.Good conversion piece.Maybe someone might come into the house and have the reason for that.Has to be the diet or something.
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I have heard of a legendary whitetail that would kill hunters to take thier gold teeth...always thought it was folk legend.
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I tried finding some info on metallic deer teeth and read a journal of pathology from 1895 that stated samples of deer teeth from Great Britain often had a metallic luster to the enamel layer. It gave no explanation why and I found no mention of it anywhere else.
I wonder if it could have come from a mineral lick of some kind. It might be worth a call to your states game commission, just to make sure it's not a symptom of disease. Better safe than sorry.
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I would ask the game commission biologist.
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Bling bling, did he also have a neck tattoo?
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https://books.google.com/books?id=G0znAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA586&lpg=PA586&dq=deer+teeth+have+a+gold+lustre&source=bl&ots=m8wMS9MTSp&sig=9ZU-n-hTOrn-w8v3ba5ZgBs8YY8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb0PeSqp_JAhUO6mMKHWe-CX0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=deer%20teeth%20have%20a%20gold%20lustre&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=G0znAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA586&lpg=PA586&dq=deer+teeth+have+a+gold+lustre&source=bl&ots=m8wMS9MTSp&sig=9ZU-n-hTOrn-w8v3ba5ZgBs8YY8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb0PeSqp_JAhUO6mMKHWe-CX0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=deer%20teeth%20have%20a%20gold%20lustre&f=false)
fertilizer.
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Thanks for the link Jojo. I looked at a satellite view of where that buck was killed and there are zero crops. It's all wooded hills and grass fields.
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Cool! So was he walking funny? Was his hide baggy? Was there a name cut out in the gold? A diamond? Any rings in his ear, or bling around his neck? Maybe he killed and ate a rapper.... ;D 8) Take the jaw down to your local jeweler, and have him do a gold test on it. Just to test if it is gold, or not, and if so, to see what karat it is. Could be gold dust there, or could be like they said, fertilizer, or mineral, or you might have a gold mine. ;) either way, cool! Check to see if he has any gold Gall, or Kidney Stones ;) ::) :P
Wayne
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I killed a little mule in WY a few yrs back that had teeth like that. we had killed 4 bucks and that was the only one like it. Ed
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Thanks for the link Jojo. I looked at a satellite view of where that buck was killed and there are zero crops. It's all wooded hills and grass fields.
That is one of the issues with fertilizers. Just because they aren't used around the area doesn't mean they aren't there. Some stay around for a long long time. it is one of the issues that our rivers face. Nitrogen leeching into the ground water, or river systems. It is all I could find about it. It is neat no matter the cause. Maybe you have a lonely dentist in the area that likes to practice catch and release hunting/dentistry?
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It's a gangsta' buck! Whoever shot him better watch their back.
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Where the does chasing him, or just working for him. Pimp deer.
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It would have been pretty freaky
if it was a crystal skull too. :o
Zuma
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Clint did you text a pic to wapiti yet? Joe will know or find out.
Tracy
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cool teeth! I hope you saved his low rider deer cart that he used to shuttle all of his does around in so we could see a gangsta deer coupe also! I have no idea what would cause that condition but I wish I had a euro with teeth like that, especially if it were a boar hog with big gold cutters.
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I can't see anything odd, older deer have more stain on their teeth, but, I'd say that one may have had sweet spot for hedgeapples.. I cut them up in front of my trail cameras all the time.. deer love them... my fingers are gold right now from sanding...
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Joe, I'll bring them to moontree for you to look at. There is something definitely different about them. The deer around here eat hedge apples and their teeth look normal.