Well I read the reviews and decided to try it anyway. I have used the Iron Buck Mount without the shed adapter before and love it. My son killed a big 8 point whitetail and the deer landed on his antlers and the broke off. I got the adapter in the mail yesterday and tried it out today. No instructions came with it at all so I drilled a hole and started screwing the antler on, the Screw broke off in the antler. I tried everything that I could do to get it to work to and it never did. Now there are screws stuck in both antlers that broke off so no chance of trying it again. I tried to save a couple of bucks by not taking the antlers to the taxidermist, big mistake. Do youself a favor and listen to these reviews, I did not and tried the shed adapter and beleive me it is TRASH!
Good concept but poor execution. The screws are permanently molded into the base. This makes it difficult to drill the holes at the proper angle. Worse yet, after drilling, when you begin screwing the base onto the antler, the surfaces are not constantly parallel to each other due to the angle of the screws, making it impossible to screw the antler on all the way. IF ONLY the screws were not molded in; 1) you could remove the screws and use the base as a drilling guide, and 2) not having to rotate the antler onto the base will preclude any worries about joining the base and the surface of the antler in parallel. There were no instructions! Bad design.
the shed adapter is well made i have no complaints about it. the only hard part is drilling holes into your antlers. once you get the holes drilled you have to twist the antler onto the screw by hand becuase the screws are made into the durable skull plate with no exposed end to use a screw driver. once the antlers are attached they are perfectly aligned as if they had been cut of the deer.
The Iron Buck mount is great looking but the shed mount didn't work at all. The angles were good but the screws were VERY weak and one snapped off so I had to glue the horn on.