Another congtradulations. Nice X-Bow buck.

I bet some of the guys way up north cannot fathom hunting in 90 +/- degree F , humid conditions such as we put up with here in the deep south. With gnats, 'skeeters, horse flies, wasps, sweat bees, etc. looking to you for a meal. Not to mention poisonous snakes ... and in your part of the world the diamond back rattler. I am a tad too far north for those critters, but we get some hefty timber rattlers from time to time. Again, good looking buck. Juat curious, what'd he weigh?

Congrats !!!

He has a beautiful colored rack........

I would say around 150. Don't have a scale.

Hers an update with my buck. Here's the finished product, I did the mount myself. Here a picture of the buck the day before as well.

European mount - I love the color differential between the skull and the horns !!!

Thanks. The color is cool and glad it turned out as white as it did. YouTube helped a lot. I did the creme 40 volume and basic white for these skulls. I'm trying to find a 3 or 4 gallon pot and get the 20 volume and boil it in peroxide. Think it would be easier especially with the hog skull. This is the hog I did as well.

Great looking skulls, I am jealous. I will be doing my first hog hunt at the end of the month, had planned on shooting behind the ear but after seeing the skulls I don't want to ruin the mount.... Great job!

Yeah that's what I usually do. When I saw this guy I shot him in the neck and spine though. Let us know how you do. I check the hog forum out a good bit. Do you hunt in Florida?

I am going on a hog hunt in Florida the last week of the month. Next year I plan on archery in the swannee for two weeks, this is All the vacation time I can take in one lump in the fall. I do a couple other Fl trips but only one during hunting season. Pulling a boat down on this trip so I will do some fishing in the spring.

Have some general maintenance to do on the house while I down so can't play all the time.

Defiantly like the bleached skulls, I want a couple of those for the walls. I can't wait to put some hog in the freezer. I keep hearing different things about the meat but I have heard a lot about venison, bear, moose, and caribou but I like all of them.... I think handling has a lot to do with it.

I'm not really sure but I heard the same thing about the big boar hogs. The hog I got tasted just fine. We mainly make maple flavored sausage or ground pork and season it with different seasonings we buy from our local meat processor. The backstraps were a little tough but again tasted just fine! We have a nice 3/4 horse grinder and a mixer we got from Cabelas. Nothing like making it yourself and everyone asks where I take it to get the meat done. The faces I get when people eat the sausage. What I really enjoy are the cherry/apple flavor venison burger's we make! Mmmmmmm