Help i got my first buck but need help with euromount

[TrapperJ]

This buck was killed yesterday.

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-Today it slow cooks in water and a 1/2 cup of 20 mule team borax. Then into clean water with a couple tablespoons of dawn dish soap to de-grease. I will have it 100% clean by this evening.
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-Tomorrow, it dries.
-Wednesday I'll paint it.
-Thursday it will be on our table..next to his friends.
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Congrats those look good I think I could manage to get it done fairly quick if I can have done atleast even by 9 tomorrow morning then that'll be fine also what did you paint it with?

 

[TrapperJ]

Local car wash

Good idea thanks I'm gonna have to try that one

 

[Dave N]

Alright well the pot I have ain't nearly big enough for the antlers it'll just be the head and I did read how the nose could break easy and so I got some super glue for the teeth or anything that breaks. Also 200 seems a bit steep

DO NOT let the antlers go into the water. Skull only.

 

[TrapperJ]

Congratulations on your first buck. I read some of your early posts and you’ve been working hard. I would go with TOGIE’s recommendation were I you. It’s your first deer. Boiling water is boiling water, if you don’t have the situation to keep a large pot, big enough to hold the cleaned head, boiling for half a day, you’ll screw it up.
Good luck!

Thanks I've been trying hard for the last few years and it's certainly a big accomplishment to get where I'm at and yes I think I will go with what TOGIE has said but I'm also gonna try some of the others recommendations and mix it up a bit and see how it goes

 

[rjthehunter]

Could I boil it then spray it down with a hose ?

For sure, but as mentioned by someone else, if you have a self serve carwash nearby, go there and pressure wash it off.

Just make sure the owner isn't there. I got kicked out of a self serve carwash before in college for washing my truck after a goose hunt that ended up being a muddy one...

 

[TrapperJ]

DO NOT let the antlers go into the water. Skull only.

Antlers won't fit in the pot anyways but just to prevent anything I'll wrap the antlers up like I've seen in some videos

 

[TrapperJ]

For sure, but as mentioned by someone else, if you have a self serve carwash nearby, go there and pressure wash it off.

Just make sure the owner isn't there. I got kicked out of a self serve carwash before in college for washing my truck after a goose hunt that ended up being a muddy one...

Oh I bet lol I actually just got back from town if I would of thought of that then I would of took the antlers with me ill run back though later and do that but right now I still gotta skin the head up since I didn't get done with processing until midnight almost last night

 

[TrapperJ]

Pressure washing is a fuggin' mess...don't do it.

I could only imagine I've had a few problems with just using a water hose

 

[Dave N]

For sure, but as mentioned by someone else, if you have a self serve carwash nearby, go there and pressure wash it off.

Just make sure the owner isn't there. I got kicked out of a self serve carwash before in college for washing my truck after a goose hunt that ended up being a muddy one...

Reminds me of when I was younger. A bunch of us went mudding all day and then hit the car wash when we got back to town. Every stall ended up with about a 4 inch layer of chunky mud laying in it!

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Local car wash

DO NOT do this....people who go to use the pressure washer car washes should not have to deal with your dead deer crap....don't be that guy...

 

[TrapperJ]

Reminds me of when I was younger. A bunch of us went mudding all day and then hit the car wash when we got back to town. Every stall ended up with about a 4 inch layer of chunky mud laying in it!

I avoid car washes I personally just run the hose over my truck but I don't get it as muddy as some

 

[TrapperJ]

DO NOT do this....people who go to use the pressure washer car washes should not have to deal with your dead deer crap....don't be that guy...

If I do take the deer there then I'll make damn sure I clean everything

 

[rjthehunter]

Reminds me of when I was younger. A bunch of us went mudding all day and then hit the car wash when we got back to town. Every stall ended up with about a 4 inch layer of chunky mud laying in it!

Yeah... that's about what happened. It was coming off in CLUMPS and apparently the owner was there and basically told us to get out... A guy can't really hose a truck off anywhere else when you live in a dorm or apartment!

 

[TrapperJ]

Also I know everyone wants pictures of the buck. So here it is and the story on it is. It was 4:30 and i promised i would be home by 5 and i was hunting the same woods that i got my first doe in but all season i only seen 2 does and 1 small spike. So i waited where i was till about 4:40 and i decided i would move over to a small field just a few feet away but i couldn't see in to it so i walked over and was leaning up against a cedar tree and in this field was nothing but sage grass and deer like sage grass to lay in so i figured i had a good chance at something and so i stood there for a few minutes when all of a sudden this buck(the one i shot) came bouncing up the field and so with my rifle ready i took aim and sent 140grains of 7mm his way causing him to collapse on spot. So then after field dressing and packing him a little ways downhill and with the lace to my boot breaking(not fun) i finally got back with my first ever buck. Sorry for my poor story telling

 

[rmyoung1]

Congrats on your first buck. You’ll never forget it!

 

[Mallardsx2]

what did you paint it with?

The cheapest white spray-paint I can buy.

Oh ya, I forgot, I superglue those teethe after it dried and before I paint. I just squirt some superglue into the sockets and on the teethe so that the jaw does not come off....

I use 2 tubes of harbor freight superglue per deer head.

 

[TrapperJ]

Congrats on your first buck. You’ll never forget it!

That's forsure lol

 

[Bonasababy]

Also I know everyone wants pictures of the buck. So here it is and the story on it is. It was 4:30 and i promised i would be home by 5 and i was hunting the same woods that i got my first doe in but all season i only seen 2 does and 1 small spike. So i waited where i was till about 4:40 and i decided i would move over to a small field just a few feet away but i couldn't see in to it so i walked over and was leaning up against a cedar tree and in this field was nothing but sage grass and deer like sage grass to lay in so i figured i had a good chance at something and so i stood there for a few minutes when all of a sudden this buck(the one i shot) came bouncing up the field and so with my rifle ready i took aim and sent 140grains of 7mm his way causing him to collapse on spot. So then after field dressing and packing him a little ways downhill and with the lace to my boot breaking(not fun) i finally got back with my first ever buck. Sorry for my poor story telling View attachment 350579

Thats a fine story and congrats--pretty nice for a first one too!

 

[Elktrack]

I'll try does it matter how hot the water is? I can get some hot but maybe not hot enough

Simmer, not a rolling boil. Pressure washing makes a mess, but is the fastest I've found.

This!^
Don’t do a hard boil. Makes skull brittle.

 

[recon6036]

Simmer for approx. 4 hrs
Power wash or remove all remaining meat with a knife, pliers, whatever.
Let it dry.
Mix cream and BW2 into a paste.
Coat the skull completely with the paste.
Wrap the skull in Plastic Wrap and let it sit for two weeks
Remove Plastic Wrap and spray off the excess dried paste.
Make sure to wipe any paste off the antlers.