First Deer (8pt)
11-27-2008, 09:34 PM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Colorado
Posts: 561
RE: First Deer (8pt)
To mount a euro, the easiest way to start is too cut a V from each antler to the back of the neck the head has been chopped off at, the best thing to use is a scalpel knife, it's small, and extremely sharp. After you cut the V and skin the hide up to the base of the antlers you take a screw driver and a hammer and go around the base of each antler and beat the hide away from it. Its pretty tricky the first time you do it. After you get the hide away from the antlers you use your scalpel to skin the rest of the hide off of the head. You have to be really careful when working around the mouth and the tear ducts if you were goin to use the hide for a shoulder mount. After the hide is off the head, you need to take a screw driver and pop the eyes out. Then pop the bottom jaw off, the best way to do that is to stand on the lower jaw, then grab the upper jaw and jerk it back, but once again becareful cause the teeth can cut your hands. After all of that you can either boil the head in water with a special type of powder, I can't remember what it's called, or leave it sit for months and wait for all the meat to just decompose off. Thats the basic outline of it. Nice deer man, its a pretty buck.
11-27-2008, 09:51 PM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Colorado
Posts: 561
RE: First Deer (8pt)
That looks pretty good for the first boiling. How long did you let it sit there, and did you add anything to the water? If you didn't, try adding Arm and Hammer Washing Soda, but it has to be Washing Soda or it won't work quite right. But it will help boil that meat off a lot quicker and make the skull look a little cleaner.
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