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How to make a European skull mount
osage outlaw:
Thanks!
I was given a turkey fryer and started using it for cooking the skulls. It works perfect. I can even cook two skulls at once. I set it up in the garage and let it simmer away. If anyone is planning on doing several euro mounts, I would highly recomend getting a turkey fryer set up.
JW_Halverson:
I've done three bucks this year, all whitetails. I'm using a stainless steel 5 gallon pot on an electric hotplate out in the garage. I use tinfoil to cover the pot as best I can and hold them at a simmer juust below boiling all nite long. The meat just shakes off in the morning and there is little scraping to do. Then it's a trip outside to the pressure washer to knock everthing loose from all the nooks and crannies. A half hour back in the garage mixing up and applying the heavy peroxide and bleaching powder from the beauty shop and let it rest until the next day.
About 2 hours all told for actual work. I've been getting $50-75 a pop for them.
But then a guy just brought me an elk head he found dead in the woods. Must have died in late summer, most of it is rotted off. I can tell you right now that 5 gallon pot ain't cutting it!!!! Someone is bringing me the bottom half of a 55 gallon barrel. Pretty sure the ol' hotplate ain't up to this job either, so I'm planning on packing the skull, barrel tub, firewood, and my bowmaking stuff up to a public campground in the Hills and building a fire under it in one of the fire pits.
Maybe I should bring along my Rendezvous cooking gear and a nice venison roast to cook over the fire and make a small festival out of it. Head boilin', bow makin', meat roastin' festival.
Gus:
That sounds like the Ticket JW...
What time should we stop by?
:)
-gus
JW_Halverson:
Head soup oughta be done about half an hour before sunset.
osage outlaw:
Head soup reminded me of the time I took an old crock pot to work and cooked a beaver and otter skull. Now when I take my good crock pot in to cook a deer roast, I have to swear to them that there aren't any heads in it before they will eat any.
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