Wife gave me the go for a euro

[nhenry]

My wife’s always been pretty opposed to deer on the walls, but she’s since come around to preemptively letting me put a euro mount in the living room in case I get a muley next week.

I know how to mount them, but how does everyone clean their skulls?

 

[Dfuller]

lots of good videos on YouTube, anymore I skin head, boil until meat falls off. Clean with a soft bristle brush. The tape antlers and disk in a hydrogen peroxide/water mix to whiten skull. I can look at exact mix ration but costs about $7 at dollar general to get the stuff to do it. Pretty simple and cheap

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Clean as required to transport per any applicable cwd regs, drop off at taxidermist, spend time that woulda been burned boiling and cleaning with wife and daughter, pick up a few weeks later for $150.

 

[TOGIE]

sous vide is nice. boiling is nice. pros cons to each. here are two sous vide threads on this web site, see below.

i just finished a mule buck yesterday.



i've been moving towards getting it done sooner, which means it requires more attention at the time and burns more of your time in one go than the set it and forget lower temp sous vide.

this time i did like three rounds of 190-200 degrees in the sous vide for like 1.5 hours at a time. rubber band around the nose after the first sous vide, left that on until done. sous vide broke after the 3rd round and switched over to the camp stove. did two rounds in 50v peroxide and water at like 180 degrees for about an hour each time. antlers wrapped in saran wrap and pipe tape (per wllm). i've never not had to touch up the antler bases with stain tho tbh

it's kinda fun and also super not fun. i have trouble letting other people touch my stuff though and i love saving the money.

Another Sous Vide Euro

Seems more and more people are trying these, sorry if y'all are sick of these posts. But I wanna chronicle this as potential list of what to do and what not to do for this - implying whatever I screw up this time around. It's not yet finished, but just started it this morning. A little buck...

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Thought I’d do a quick post as this method works so well for cleaning a skull. 48 hours 155 for first 24 hours and then 145 for the last 24 hours. 4 scoops of oxiclean. Power-washed and drying, no picking required. After whitening with 50vol developer creme After sealing with...

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[Carl 9.3x62]

Youtube it. There's about a hundred different ways to clean them, pick one that you like and give it a go. The last few I did I defleshed with a sous vide in a cooler, and then used a power washer. Pretty easy.

 

[RealMuddyboots]

Salon peroxide once cleaned in sun will bring out the white that looks great.

+1 on power washing interior brain cavity to remove ALL interior residual brain matter. HIGHLY recommend face shield to prevent splash back into mouth. Yes, personal experience

Skull hooker in old barn board with kill photo looks great!

 

[Nick_CO]

Here's my setup. Simmer (Not boil) for 2-4 hours or as long as you can stand the smell. I had both of these to do this year and by the end of the day I smelled like the steam. Nasty. While simmering, I get all of the big stuff off periodically, as well as use a stiff piece of wire like a coat hangar to get as much of the brains out as possible. Use needle nose pliers to remove nasal and ear cartilage. Afterwards I'll pour a bunch of salt into the brain cavity to help dry it out, then come back with a dremel a few weeks later to grind off everything else that has dried.

 

[Bsquad]

Salon peroxide once cleaned in sun will bring out the white that looks great.

+1 on power washing interior brain cavity to remove ALL interior residual brain matter. HIGHLY recommend face shield to prevent splash back into mouth. Yes, personal experience

Skull hooker in old barn board with kill photo looks great!
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Wow! Those mounts look great. Good idea with the bullet casing and photo. Did you do the barn wood yourself?

 

[RealMuddyboots]

Yep, neighbor farmer had an old barn shed laying down from age. Asked if I could take some and Hell yeah! Take as much as you want! Skull Hookers off Camofire usually great deal. Cut the barn wood at 45 degree angled inward to hide cut looks great too.

 

[Nick87]

@BuzzH Had a post or thread on here that pretty much sums up how to do it in detail iirc.

 

[Nick87]

Post in thread 'Bury instead of bugs' https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/bury-instead-of-bugs.244793/post-2146950

There ya go

 

[nhenry]

It’s far easier to make a thread to leave for a bit and have people tell me than digging through the archives if HT and the internet to find the good info lol thanks guys