Das Jagdmagazin mit Weitblick

Broken antlers, a damaged deer skull, or a snapped-off tine? Hunting trophies can suffer serious damage when an animal tumbles down a steep slope or during recovery. But how do you repair broken antlers and delicate skull bones? Schuss & Stille master taxidermist Eric Leitner shows how to restore damaged hunting trophies using screws, two-part epoxy, and ordinary white glue.

When the last shot echoes across the ridgelines of Carinthia and the woods finally grow quiet, most hunters hang up their rifles and turn toward winter stories and shed antlers. For Eric Leitner, that’s when the real rush begins. Up on the Kreuzen above Paternion, Austria, trophies start arriving at his workshop—carefully wrapped capes, antlers still carrying the scent of the rut, birds frozen mid-wing. To the hunter, they are memories. To Leitner, they are responsibility.