European Skull mount
#27
If you can find a big ant hill, like we have in the mts in PA, burying a skinned skull in one of them and leaving it for a few months will get it pretty clean. http://www.backyardbiology.net/Natur...ts_story.shtml These guys. Not as good as beetles but pretty clean. Of course it isn't fun to dig around the bottom of an ant hill.
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#28
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I've only done the one nice mule deer I shot in Wyoming last year and I suggest that you not boil a skull, but rather let it simmer for quite a few hours, taking it out every once in a whole and taking off what has loosened up and skimming the junk out of the water that came off. After it is really done in the water take a sturdy brush and clean it off well so all there is is bone left and let it dry. Then I used a dry powder that you mix with water to make a paste and I applied it liberally to the entire skull to further whiten it, left it for 24 hours, and then flushed it all off with fresh water and a brush.
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