Taxidermy

[NewEnglandFishing]

Anyone into taxidermy here? Just starting to get into hunting, and thought it would be cool to save a couple different skulls (I know, confident, right?)

 

Actually thinking of raising up some Demetrius beetles to handle the cleaning of the skulls/bones as they strip them clean, and are fairly easy to raise.

 

 

[Clinton john]

We use a chemical boil bath to remove material from the skulls.

 

Takes about three hours and they come on pearly white, plus you don't have the long lasting rotten flesh smell around your house.

[NewEnglandFishing]

could you provide more info?

 

[Clinton john]

I would have to go dig out the book from my man cave and I'm a lil busy packing for work right now.

 

You can goggle it and download the mixture, I use to get the chemicals from the local feed store and walmart.

 

Put them in a wash tub over a propane cooker, in the back yard and let it do its thing.

 

Goggle is your freind.

Goggle at euro mounting or diy euro deer mount, is what I think I found it under.

[Loomis13]

Have done the boiling thing a few times and it works well, but that smell really gets to me for some reason. It takes a lot for me to stomach it. We have always boiled them in a turkey fryer and then you kind of paint a bleach based solution on them and set them in the sun. Also, be careful as the nose can break kind of easily!