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Offline elksnout

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Prep work for an antler mount ?
« on: November 21, 2010, 07:31:01 PM »
I apologize if this has been asked before. I got a decent blacktail this year and would like to mount it on a wall plaque myself. What is the proper way to prep the skull so all the meat and tissue is off of it? Boil it?
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Re: Prep work for an antler mount ?
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2010, 07:37:57 PM »
if you are just doing a antler mount you can just boil it, and wire brush it off/pick the meat off.
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Re: Prep work for an antler mount ?
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2010, 10:36:39 PM »
Add a little 20 mule team borax into the pot, it helps!
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Re: Prep work for an antler mount ?
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2010, 10:49:58 PM »
Sal soda will clean it up nicely.

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Re: Prep work for an antler mount ?
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2010, 12:27:52 PM »
You can boil the meat off.  Should only take a few minutes and it isn't going to hurt the skull cap. 


 


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