Hang on guys.....there is an easier way. My brother does skull mounts for his family and some of our friends all the time. He's working on my buddies deer right now. He uses a chemical that he buys from a taxidermist supply catalog. I think the product is called "sol-soda" or something similar. If anyone is interested I can get the name of the stuff and where he buys it.

Anyway, skins the head and puts this chemical in a pot of boiling water and boils the skull for 30 minutes. Any longer and the skull starts to fall apart he says. The meat just falls off the bone. It still requires a few hours of picking the meat off and cleaning it up good but when he's done it looks great. Then he bleaches the skull snow white with peroxide and applies a fungicide spray on it to keep it clean.

I'll find out more info if anyone is intersted.

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Hunting the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas.