Thanks for the post, I was just asking about this earlier today, and I was going to post this very question.
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Originally posted by huntmaster View PostFor a couple of years I just put a head on a fireant mound and it was clean in a couple of weeks. Last year my deer killed or moved 3 mounds and now I have a head with year old skin on it. How is the best way to remove it now?
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Bleaching your own skulls is not hard, just takes a little time.
1. First you must have a pot big enough for your skull.
2. Add one box of baking soda to your water, this brings down the boiling point of water.
3. Bring water to a boil, then bring it down to a simmer, where water is barely turning, you don't actually boil the skull if you do you damage the skull.
4. Simmer the skull 4 to 6 hrs, depending on the size.
5. It is improtant that you let the pot with the skull cool down before taking out the skull. If you pull skull out hot, it will likely crack.
6. Gently remove meat, ligaments and what ever else remains on the skull, rinse with clean water when done.
7. Once all has been removed, you now need to degrease skull.
8. Buy some Dawn dishwashing liquid, along with some house hold amonia.
9. Place the skull in a big enough container, add the dishwashing liquid the more the merrier, add the amonia, about 4 quarts, the amonia will remove most of the bad smell and help the degreasing process.
10. Let the skull degrease for a week, when the solution looks like gravy, remove and repeat process for another week, degreasing is complete when there are no more yellow spots on skull.
11. Once skull has been degreased you can start the whitening process.
12. Purchase cream peroxide and quick white (white hair dye) from a beauty salon.
13. Mix about 1.5 scoops of quick white and 1 cup cream peroxide, mixture verys, mix together and apply with a brush to skull. This will whiten skull, once dry it will look like dried baking powder, repeat to desired whiteness.
14. Bleaching done.
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