DIY European Mount - Whitetail

[quebow03]

I’ll start by saying that I post this with some hesitation knowing I’ll get all sorts of grief from people about how THEY would do it and that I did XYZ wrong. I’m not a professional taxidermist and this is just how I did a European mount on a buck that was too small for a shoulder mount. There are lots of videos out there but figured I would just share how I did it.

http://youtu.be/f8Dd9dSK_-4

[R Herline Jr]

Cool. I have done it several different ways

[DrJ]

Did you put any detergent or anything in your water when you boiled it?

[DoubleGProstaff]

Thats how I have find it in the past. Now I just put them in a pickle barrel and let them rot.

[quebow03]

Did you put any detergent or anything in your water when you boiled it?

No, I did not use any detergent. Water stayed just under boiling for hours though. Every hour or so I would go out and scrape flesh off.

[graesz]

That worked and looks great.

Have you shown your wife this infomercial?

[DrJ]

Ok, good to know. I've got one in my deep freeze that I didn't skin first. This will be my first attempt at a DIY Euro. Thanks for the video

[quebow03]

That worked and looks great.

Have you shown your wife this infomercial?

Yeah... i showed her like a year later. Funny thing, a friend of mine was working on a Euro mount and said he watched a DIY video on YouTube to figure it out--turns out it was my video. I opened it up this morning and see that it has nearly 300,000 views. I might have taken a little more time/care if I knew so many people were going to watch it.