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Clean That Trophy Skull Mount
Uploaded on November 21, 2009Removing excess tissue from an harvested skull is made easier with the high pressure water hose at the local car wash or better yet if you have a pressure washer at home. I remove as much tissue as possible then put the skull in boiling water,remove from heat then let soak for a day or two. Take the skull down to the car wash and spray off excess tissue, gets all the glingy tissue off of hard to reach places. Then a peroxide / bleach soak removes any left over tissue and brightens the skull.
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Here in Germany, after boiling the skull, hunters leave the head with the remaining tissue (left after scraping with a knife)outside on an anthill. The ants will attempt to clean away anything from their hill, and will pick the skull clean. After a few days, a bleach bath will ensure the bone turns bright white. The reason they do not use high pressure washes is that self serve car washes don't really exist here other than the automated ones.
I'll be boiling the head of my trophy today. I've also heard a similar post as above where maggots are used versus ants. I guess one can send in their head to a place that specializes in this process. Only take a day or two and the whole skull is clean. No boiling necessary...
It doesn't break the skull or anything? I'm trying ot figure out how to finsih it off..i aldreay boiled it and everything so..i just want it to look good now
Peroxid soak or bushed on or bleach/water soak to brighten and bleach the skull.
I find that boiling the skull in Borax removes most of the brain and flesh easily. Then it can be soaked in peroxide. You need to get the concentrated stuff from a beauty supply store. The medicinal strength isn't strong enough.
i live in virginia and we just put it in the ground up to the start of the antlers for about a month. all kinds of worms and other stuff will eat it
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Here in Germany, after boiling the skull, hunters leave the head with the remaining tissue (left after scraping with a knife)outside on an anthill. The ants will attempt to clean away anything from their hill, and will pick the skull clean. After a few days, a bleach bath will ensure the bone turns bright white. The reason they do not use high pressure washes is that self serve car washes don't really exist here other than the automated ones.
I'll be boiling the head of my trophy today. I've also heard a similar post as above where maggots are used versus ants. I guess one can send in their head to a place that specializes in this process. Only take a day or two and the whole skull is clean. No boiling necessary...
It doesn't break the skull or anything? I'm trying ot figure out how to finsih it off..i aldreay boiled it and everything so..i just want it to look good now
Peroxid soak or bushed on or bleach/water soak to brighten and bleach the skull.
I find that boiling the skull in Borax removes most of the brain and flesh easily. Then it can be soaked in peroxide. You need to get the concentrated stuff from a beauty supply store. The medicinal strength isn't strong enough.
i live in virginia and we just put it in the ground up to the start of the antlers for about a month. all kinds of worms and other stuff will eat it
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