European Mount Tutorial

[SPIKER]

A couple of years ago I made my first attempt at cleaning a skull. I used what I call a "CULL" buck, a 2+ year old that was never going to amount to anything. I'm sure we all know people like that, but anyway, I wouldn't attempt this for the first time on a trophy.

I skinned out the head:



Then simmered it in water mixed with Dawn soap for two hours to soften up the meat:







Then I removed as much of the flesh as I could, and put it in a peroxide/oxyclean solution ( 8 scoops of the Oxi clean with the quart of peroxide) Make sure you wrap the base of the antlers with plastic and duct tape or you will bleach the bases:



I used a stiff brush to remove any excess fat/flesh, then used a blow dryer to finish it off:









There are some dark spots that I just couldn't remove, and I believe it has something to do with oil leaching.

I found this site, which has some excellent tutorials on skull cleaning. Next time I will get a little more technical on it.


http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index...,125076.0.html


Edit: Next time I will pay someone to use flesh eating beatles. This chit took forever.

[Guest]

That looks great!
Did it stench up the place while flesh being bubbled off? It just seems like it would reek while in the pot..
Very awesome

[SPIKER]

That looks great!
Did it stench up the place while flesh being bubbled off? It just seems like it would reek while in the pot..
Very awesome

No, .actually it was pretty good. The ex wife at the time just objected to me using the stove, but it did not smell any different than boiling meat in a pot.

But, DON'T BOIL. It has to be a slow simmer.

On hindsight, maybe that's why I got divorced..lol