Euro/skull mounting

just learn to do it yourself it's super easy

Super easy but requires time that I could be using to hunt or fish... But I still do mine when I ever get around to it.

just learn to do it yourself it's super easy

I got a related question....besides throwing them away, what’s the best fix for rotten heads that I don’t want to touch. Lightning struck my house and fried my freezer that had 3-4 deer heads and 2 turkeys and a bunch of deer livers and feet and turkey beards and feet. Didn’t know it wasn’t working for months. It’s so rank I don’t want to do anything but take the freezer to the dump, but I sure would like those heads European mounted. Should I just sling them in the woods somewhere and let nature work them over? Should I wrap the antlers in something to keep rodents from chewing them up?

it really doesnt

I got a related question....besides throwing them away, what’s the best fix for rotten heads that I don’t want to touch. Lightning struck my house and fried my freezer that had 3-4 deer heads and 2 turkeys and a bunch of deer livers and feet and turkey beards and feet. Didn’t know it wasn’t working for months. It’s so rank I don’t want to do anything but take the freezer to the dump, but I sure would like those heads European mounted. Should I just sling them in the woods somewhere and let nature work them over? Should I wrap the antlers in something to keep rodents from chewing them up?

I need to hear more about this method that does not require any time.

How do you do yours? I've got one from last year that I'm going to do, maybe this weekend, to practice on. My plan was to skin it out and remove as much flesh as possible with a knife, then boil it for 5 or 6 hours (or until the meat's fallen off) in water with some borax mixed in. I'm still undecided as to whether I'll leave it the natural color or hit the skull with some peroxide to whiten it.

Is that about it, or are there extra steps you do?

I got a local guy that'll do it for $45. Not worth me fooling with it.

Jamesm1976, I was using Chad Cherry. Before that I sent them to a guy in Wisconsin.

Tightline, I will pm you.

Got one lead on someone named Vanderpol.... gonna keep investigating.

Thanks everyone

That’s a heck of a deal. $ 20 for propane and peroxide and at least 3 hrs time that fellow ain’t making minimum wage. I have to turn them away at 125.

I use dawn in the first boil.

What type peroxide do most hunters use to scull mount deer.
I have scull mounted my last 3 bucks that I killed. I normally
Keep them In my old freezer until it starts getting warmer.
Then I put them in a ant bed until the ants do most of the work.
Of course I put a wire cage around them were the animals won't
tote them off. After they get most of the meat off them ,then I pour
Peroxide all over them and it eats away any remaining flesh or hair.
I have always used normal 3 percent peroxide, but my cousin who is
starting his own taxidermy said you can buy a lot stronger peroxide from
a beauty salon, I don't know but I'm gonna look into it. He said it speeds
Up the process and makes the scull mount look alot better.

I use 40% peroxide from the Local Beauty Shop Supply.

What type peroxide do most hunters use to scull mount deer.

bucket of water with an aquarium heater. they make a thing called a buck boiler

Dang right. Piss on all of that cooking and crap. Way too much hassle. I don't even use an aquarium heater myself. I skin them when they are fresh, put them in the freezer, and when the weather starts breaking warm in the spring....I put em in a bucket of water with holes drilled in it that allows the water to drain out if the water level gets too high up on the antlers (which will stain them dark). In about 6 weeks, pull it out and rinse it off with a garden hose and then put it in fresh water with lots of dawn (for final degreasing) for about two more weeks. Voila, ready for whitening and clean as a whistle. Easy, peasy.