KYDeerHunter03

Like the others said, boiling can damage the skull. I do taxidermy on the side and use the beetles to clean mine and they turn out great.

Here is a 5 hour tutorial on how to do euro mounts. Thats about as fast as your gonna get

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

HuntinGuy

I also boil my skulls. First of all, try to clean as much of the skull by hand. When your water is boiling, mix in salt and possibly even Oxi Clean. I do this and it seems to help loosen the hide and meat faster while also whitening the skull some even before it is time to bleach. But like some other posts stated, try not to boil to long, it does soften the skull and can break easier. One way to help this problem is be sure to dip the skull in cold water after boiling the skull. Try some of these methods and see if they help.
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mncarphntr

Calcium carbonate (Sal soda or washing soda) added to the water will soften the meat faster. SIMMER about an hour and it should clean off easily, if not leave it a while longer. Clean off well and then put it in water with Dawn detergent and Ammonia (preferably heated) for several weeks to degrease (thats where the yellowing comes from). Then whiten with peroxide.

aaron_aa469

how did you get the very top and very back white without hitting the horns?

HuntinGuy

When dipping and bleaching the skull. Put a soaked rag from the mix you are bleaching over the top of the skull and around the base of antlers. make sure the rag is touching into the mix so it keeps soaking up the mix and keeps whitening the top and back.

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springspur

i skin the skull behind the eyes, leave the nose area intact for the first boil it helps protect the delicate nose bones. after the meat on the back half starts coming away from the bone take out and deflesh pull the lower jaw and make sure the hole in back of skull is open. boil again and get off rest of flesh and nose tissue. for bleachng i use clorox bleach (the splashless kind) put on with small brush

Poke Smott

same as rawhide..no biggie

HunterJacob

i might try that boiling method

runko

use beetles

Stonewall308

Last year I found a dead deer in the woods. I put the head in a 5 gallon bucket and filled the bucket with grass clippings; I didn't skin it or do anything else to it. I left that in a hidden spot in my yard for about 8 weeks. It didn't smell and nothing messed with it. Pulled it out 8 weeks later and it was a bare skull with some bugs crawling around in the grass clippings.

That method is not for everyone I know, but for me it beats scrapping at a skull and trying to boil something outside.