Skull mount

[Chuck Jones]

I got lucky and killed a nice 8 point on Friday last week. The third nice buck in 3 years on my little 10 acre triangle woods in southern Illinois.

I wasn't going to have him mounted, so I decided to try and boil the skull and clean it up that way.

I got everything off that I could, and boiled the skull for about 1 1/2 hours at low boil. I then pressure washed most of the tissue off, and scraped the rest off. I wiped the bone down with peroxide and set in the sun to dry.

Turned out good and is a natural white.

I'll add a picture a sap.

[Chuck Jones]

Here are the pictures..

 2016 buck  by  okawbow , on Flickr

 November. 2016 buck  by  okawbow , on Flickr

[Crittergetter]

That turned out great!!

[ron w]

Nice job......  

[NANUK]

Congrats on a nice buck and nice job on the euro mount!

[Gen273]

Awesome buck!!! Congrats!

[Dry Creek]

Turned out really nice
Congrats on a nice one!!

[CraigC]

looks good...I just paid $150 for mine...just didn't have the time to deal with it...

[Bill Kissner]

Dandy buck Chuck! Congratulations. I really am liking European mounts.

[CoachBGriff]

Looks great!

I love a good skull mount like that... especially when the antlers are darker like that one!

Thanks for sharing.

[Longbowwally]

Nice buck! By the way my grandkids love the two little Black Rhino bows I bought for them....

[JakeD]

Nice buck! That mount turned out really nice.

[Kopper1013]

Beautiful buck great job with the skull congrats

[Shadowhnter]

How did you get the nose cartilage out so well?

[Chuck Jones]

Boiling and cleaning the skull was less work than I thought. I was able to get it done between bow making jobs during the day.

It only cost me one bottle of gas and a couple hours of work. Looks much better than a skull plate, board mount. I'll probably do the next one this way also.

This buck was too good to just nail on the shop wall. He will make the P&Y book and that's a big deal in my hunting area.

[Chuck Jones]

Shadow hunter, the cartilage came out easily with the pressure washer and needle nose pliers. I used a couple squirts of Dawn dishwashing liquid in the water, and that might have helped.

[recurve3]

Congrats Chuck!

looks great.

[Irish Archer]

Congrats on a great deer Chuck! The skull turned out great too. Very nice indeed.

[wooddamon1]

   

[Alexander Traditional]

That's a real nice job for doing it yourself. Nice looking buck too!