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Offline osage outlaw

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Strange deer teeth
« on: November 19, 2015, 10:09:41 pm »
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. 












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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Offline bubby

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2015, 10:33:48 pm »
Looks like the flav a flav of white tails Clint
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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2015, 11:19:15 pm »
He had his grill on!  ;D   Can you scrape it off?
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2015, 11:41:23 pm »
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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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2015, 03:51:47 am »
did he have his rack on sideways? lol Tony
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Offline chamookman

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2015, 03:52:29 am »
Dang it Bub - just shot coffee all over the lap-top  ;). That's pretty weird Clint. Bob
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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2015, 04:23:50 am »
Me to Bob, now that was funny. ;D ;D  No idea Clint. :)
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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2015, 07:07:34 am »
Since there gold he was prob eating that yeller gold that grows everywhere down your way ;)  :laugh:
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2015, 07:46:16 am »
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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Offline nclonghunter

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2015, 08:19:40 am »
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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Offline Dakota Kid

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2015, 08:46:10 am »
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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Offline caveman2533

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2015, 10:33:45 am »
I would ask the  game commission biologist.
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2015, 10:43:32 am »
Bling bling, did he also have a neck tattoo?
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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2015, 10:53:50 am »
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Strange deer teeth
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2015, 10:29:09 pm »
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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