RE: help with european mount
skin the skull and and cut off as much meat as you can. Boil the skull/antlers for serveral hours until all the meat begins to fall off the bone. cut the rest off and take a water hose and "blow the brains" out of the inside of the skull. Clean and boil until the skull is almost completely clean. Then soak in a mix of bleach and water. I used a 50/50 mix and keep a close eye on it. The bleach will eat away any remaining meat and tissue as well as whiten the skull. Be careful not to let the antlers touch the bleach as it will whiten them as well. soak the skull for short periods of time. Check often to see if it is white enough for you, and that it's clean. if you soak it to long the entire thing can become britttle and weak. The nasal cavity will crumble some no matter what you do, so don't worry about that to much. Done right they look great and are a nice in between measure for deer not big enough to mount, but deserving of more than just cuttting off the antlers.