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14 minutes ago, Culvercreek hunt club said:

I was looking into it myself and it appeared that most use the chest freezer with the lamp to maintain the temps. I also was unaware that it wasn't the "beetles" that did the majority of the eating but the larva so they need to be a breeding colony. My wife would kill me, she isn't buying into the whole skinned drying animal smell in the garage from the trapping skins...lol 

wait a few years, we don't have any extra bedrooms now if and when Robin throws you out.  She will be longing for the smell of drying skins.

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Lawdwaz
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You must be married, otherwise you'd be doing that on the kitchen stove. Good call....

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I have mine mounted on bed slats from a whorehouse in Billings, Montana, autographed by Ernest Hemingway....

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Finally got around to sticking him on some “cleaned up” pallet wood...pretty happy although I think I would have preferred to either move him higher or make the pallet wood a bit longer. Ain’t too

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We have zero euro mounts cOmbined. Just small skull plates. We used beetle guys for cat/canine skulls tho. Those beetle sheds stink!


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Are you saying that skulls cleaned by beetles still smell bad? Or that the beetles eating rotten meat smell bad? The later I knew.
Can someone with a beetle cleaned skull confirm that their finished product still smells?
I imagine that even after the beetles do their things some gentle boils in dish soap and Oxiclean are needed.


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5 hours ago, crappyice said:


Are you saying that skulls cleaned by beetles still smell bad? Or that the beetles eating rotten meat smell bad? The later I knew.
Can someone with a beetle cleaned skull confirm that their finished product still smells?
I imagine that even after the beetles do their things some gentle boils in dish soap and Oxiclean are needed.


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Mine smells. I was thinking about maybe a soak in a baking soda solution

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19 hours ago, crappyice said:


That would be sweet! Seriously what’s involved with beetles? Keep them in “fish tanks” with dirt? Feed them scraps of meat?
I figure the way Biz’s pops (and Biz every 4 years!) knocks down bucks, this could be quite profitable in this area!


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This guy had them in storage bins with lamps, in his basement

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Only way you'd wake up to a skeleton is if someone died next to you and was dead for a long time. Pretty sure you'd wake up before the beetles were even at all interested in the body

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Anyone ever read the short story “Rose for Emily”....for some reason it comes to mind.


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Are you saying that skulls cleaned by beetles still smell bad? Or that the beetles eating rotten meat smell bad? The later I knew.
Can someone with a beetle cleaned skull confirm that their finished product still smells?
I imagine that even after the beetles do their things some gentle boils in dish soap and Oxiclean are needed.


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The shed or room where people have the beetles work smell bad. The final product skull I receive never smell. It always took months. Not sure how some people have such a quick turnaround.

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The shed or room where people have the beetles work smell bad. The final product skull I receive never smell. It always took months. Not sure how some people have such a quick turnaround.

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They usually then wash in hot water and peroxide to bleach. So no smells and a beautiful finish

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2 hours ago, crappyice said:


We would appreciate that. Just give me a little time to hear back from Lawd about a pesky little thing called child labor laws....are they new?damn snowflakes!!!


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We know youe got those kids fletching arrows already, time to expand the operation

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On ‎12‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 5:54 PM, The_Real_TCIII said:

Mine smells. I was thinking about maybe a soak in a baking soda solution

Told you!  lol  I soaked mine in the stuff my wife uses to mop our tile floors.  It helped but now has a strong fabuloso smell - perhaps a cover scent?

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Pics out of order...first one of clean skull is obviously after a boil in oxy and soap and few hours of picking.

 

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I gotta congratulate you again on that beautiful buck! 

You really are doing a great job with the euro!! Slow and steady is the way to go. And it will be a fine mount to show off that buck, and a great reminder of that hunt too!

Here is one I did two or three years ago. I picked the board from the old original homestead on the farm, built in the early 1800s. Used 7mm-08 cases, one of which killed the buck. And some dried grasses, from the property, dried by my hunting partners wife.

I made a rough outline of the bottom on a piece of cardboard. Flipped it over and made a reverse pattern on top, that I cut with a jigsaw, and rough sanded.

A rustic look is what I wanted. Came out OK I think. I may do something similar with this years buck, to go on the other side of the wall?

Hope this helps with mounting ideas Chris??? 

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