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Old 12-16-2017, 12:36 AM
Marty S Marty S is offline
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Do comb your pelt up thoroughly. Very carefully remove all burs, stickers, matts, blood, muck, etc. If a comb won't go thru the hair, neither will the drumming media. If a comb goes thru, the drum can clean, meaning it might, it might not. If your fur has burrs in it, or other goods like blood cakes, realize it is not the graders job to guess or assume, in fact he is not to guess or assume. Hair full of burrs, expect a downgrade. Same with cak d blood. Once I seen a coyote in the bad damage grade that had a 3" blood matt, so I stuck my arm up the pelt to assess the damage, it had a .22 bucket hole and nobody washed the virtual perfect skin, went from $85 to $15... that year.

Drumming these days is performed at auction house with media +water, this puffs the hair but does not dress them up. They used to use chemical but no more.
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