My first european mount

[Terry]

This is the first euro mount I have done myself. It's the 8 I killed during rifle season

[hunter49]

     Nice, did a good job for your first DIY looks good ! 

[SteveNY]

Looks great, I like it.

 

What method did you use?

Edited January 11, 2014 by SteveNY

[nyantler]

That came out really nice!

[Terry]

Thanks gentlemen. I used the boil method

[Red]

It looks very good

[nycredneck]

Wow, sweet!

[stoneam2006]

Looks good.....congrats

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[ny hunter]

Real nice!!!!

[Mr.Zach]

Can someone describe the boil method or post a link?  I'd like to give it a try.  When I was a kid I boiled a steer's skull and it flaked apart.  I'd like to avoid that this time around.

[Terry]

You don't really want to bring it to a full boil, but keep the water temp just below. Submerge the skull for about an hour then start scraping. Get as much as you can off then stick it back into the water for about 15-20 minutes before pulling it out to scrape again. Keep doing this until the skull is clean inside and out. The hard part is the brain and all the gunk inside all the crevices.

One thing, DON'T OVER BOIL. The skull bones will start to separate if you do. If that happens you can repair it, but why go through this if you don't have to.

[chiefbkt]

That turned out pretty good!  Nice job!

[stevenjackson]

turned out swell man! loving it