What do you do with cut-off deer antlers?

[Rubberhead*]

From 12 to about 45 I killed deer along and along. The story was always that same, I was sitting there and a deer walked by then I shot him. I've hung most of the antlers in the garage - they kind'a dry rot over time. For the past 10 or so years, though, I've been much more serious about killing deer and the deer have much better stories so the antlers are more meaningful. I would like to keep the antlers somewhere better than the rafters in the garage. I've just been putting them (after they dry) in the bottom of a spare closet but that's starting to fill up to the bottom of the hanging clothes. Is there something artsy I could do with some of the nicer antlers? I have no intention of getting deer head mounted.

[scmoose]

I step on them in the middle of the night when my dog leaves them in the middle of the floor.

[BigBrother]

I have a pile on top of the cabinets at Ft. Kickass from the deer I killed in my youth. My uh-ohs (deer I should have passed on but they were moving fast and got ground shrinkage) are hung on the outside over a garage bay door. The Euros are hung inside an old dug out pirogue that's hung up on the ceiling of Ft. Kickass and I have two deer mounted that'll make the book but I havent scored them.

[308]

Make lamps, chandeliers fixtures with the antlers.

[Whackumstackum]

I’ve got one fireplace full and working on the other.

[WoodieSC]

Make lamps, chandeliers fixtures with the antlers.

Here's some ideas for you. But with as many as it sounds like you've got, you could probably build a floor lamp out of them... or a chandelier like 308 mentioned.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=antler+lam...dbac9771af.jpg

[loud1]

I step on them in the middle of the night when my dog leaves them in the middle of the floor.

This right here

[thunderchicken]

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Christmas tree

[dmatheny21]

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[SCswampCAT]

Just pile them up in my hunting room, they last longer in there. My son will spend hours looking at them, one day. I know my brother and I sure as hell did with my dad and grandads racks.

[boondoggle]

The dogs get them as chew toys


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[Duckman#1]

Some are on the wall some are on the floor in the man cave and the rest are in a pile in the shop

[barrineau]

i agree , they make cool looking chandaliers and lamp fixtures, there used to be a fellow in sumter that made them years ago

[Baggy]

‘Migos pay big dinero for head bones.

[jws]

I used to throw them on top of my parents well house when I was growing up. No telling how many horns were eaten by squirrels. I try to keep them now but if it's not wall worthy, it's out in my shop.

[adamb61085]

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Wife uses them for Christmas decorations. Some are hanging in the garage and some are laying around in my hunting room in the way. I really need to find a place for them out of the way. My dad took all the ones we had at his house from me growing up and used them for his dogs chew toys.

[centurian]

I cut them all off and hang in the shop. Helping clean another members deer once and asked about cutting off the horns. He said it’s just a fork horn. I told him that deer thought just as much of his horns as that 8 pt buck and cut them off.