Felt like sharing, surely hundreds of posts already. Fortunately for us that have some success but not the full body world record or pedestal shoulder mount taxidermy from the best money can buy taxidermist kind of success. I am more meat hunter than trophy, but no longer brown it's down and always consider what's mature... still not going to say I don't want 150" or better yet 200" to walk out some day and make a great shot and start worrying about the money the mount is going to cost, but until it happens, I still see a trophy in every game animal I've taken. Especially when it's on my plate ready to eat.
Anyway, just a quick informative about some items and where to get them for cheap to do your own skull bleaching.
Need pot to boil...
The short list..
Dawn dish soap
20 Mule Team Borax
"Developer"
Stop in a "dollar store"
Plastic oil pan
Brass/steel brush
Super glue
Non yellowing clear coat spray
Minus the heating source and pot,
$20 covers everything else.
I have done the following a dozen times.
Fresh head smells better. I freeze head or skin it and start within a day...
Boil several times just water, getting mostly all meat off the bone, remove, spary out brain
Dump water, add dawn soap and small amount of borax and boil some more... I like pouring soap and borax into the skullcap and any spaces that will hold soap.
Once it looks clean.. I bungee it to a tree, pressure washing any bits leftover. I then stuff it overnight with borax to dry out anytging inside I might not see...
Next day or two... I brush off borax and hit with spray wash again and then it is ready for peroxide bath.
I've done it differently 2 out of 12 times, leaving peroxide and skull in garage waiting until next day to rinse and set outside. Last 10 times, just brush teeth with peroxide cream, pour over and inside of skull generously with cream
**** ! Keep off yourself and the antlers ! ****
I set it in direct sunlight with peroxide and leave it until the next day, then using a stiff bristle brush clean away the paste, rinse it off, let sit outside in sunlight another day.
Add some super glue to teeth, just incase.
Give a coat, maybe two of clear coat spray, loop saltwater leader in back to hang on the wall.
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Anyway, just a quick informative about some items and where to get them for cheap to do your own skull bleaching.
Need pot to boil...
The short list..
Dawn dish soap
20 Mule Team Borax
"Developer"
Stop in a "dollar store"
Plastic oil pan
Brass/steel brush
Super glue
Non yellowing clear coat spray
Minus the heating source and pot,
$20 covers everything else.
I have done the following a dozen times.
Fresh head smells better. I freeze head or skin it and start within a day...
Boil several times just water, getting mostly all meat off the bone, remove, spary out brain
Dump water, add dawn soap and small amount of borax and boil some more... I like pouring soap and borax into the skullcap and any spaces that will hold soap.
Once it looks clean.. I bungee it to a tree, pressure washing any bits leftover. I then stuff it overnight with borax to dry out anytging inside I might not see...
Next day or two... I brush off borax and hit with spray wash again and then it is ready for peroxide bath.
I've done it differently 2 out of 12 times, leaving peroxide and skull in garage waiting until next day to rinse and set outside. Last 10 times, just brush teeth with peroxide cream, pour over and inside of skull generously with cream
**** ! Keep off yourself and the antlers ! ****
I set it in direct sunlight with peroxide and leave it until the next day, then using a stiff bristle brush clean away the paste, rinse it off, let sit outside in sunlight another day.
Add some super glue to teeth, just incase.
Give a coat, maybe two of clear coat spray, loop saltwater leader in back to hang on the wall.
Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk
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