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Title: Minimal effort euro
Post by: Twispriver on March 10, 2021, 05:36:36 PM: 2020 Blacktail
Easy to follow process

Step 1 - Shoot the deer
Step 2 - Cut off and skin the head
Step 3 - Bury the head in the garden for five months
Step 4 - Dig it up and hose it off
Step 5 - Hang it in the barn with the others
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Post by: BD1 on March 10, 2021, 06:21:05 PM: :tup: Nice work!!!!
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Post by: Magnum_Willys on March 10, 2021, 06:42:43 PM: Dang, like the results. Hmmmm........ Garden Euro ?
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Post by: High Climber on March 10, 2021, 06:45:56 PM: Did you bury the antlers and all? Or just the skull and leave the antlers sticking out? Looks good :tup:
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Post by: Twispriver on March 10, 2021, 06:48:53 PM: I taped black plastic bags around the antler bases and buried it with just the tops of the points showing - I've done maybe six or eight bucks this way
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Post by: Dan-o on March 10, 2021, 08:11:11 PM: Looks good. :tup:
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Post by: Bigshooter on March 10, 2021, 09:50:41 PM: I've tried this several times and never with good results.
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Post by: Miles on March 11, 2021, 04:28:00 AM: Place skull in pot, bring water and some powdered detergent to a light boil. Once the flesh starts loosening put on rain gear, and hit it with a pressure washer. Quickest and easiest way I’ve come across. Next day use some volume 40 or 50 and it’ll turn perfectly white. I’ve probably done 30-40 this way.
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Post by: Buckhunter24 on March 11, 2021, 05:25:55 AM: I think it depends a lot on the soil moisture. We did this with one over in Spokane and after a year it was just kind of mummified.
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Post by: OutHouse on March 11, 2021, 05:18:52 PM: Did you have to dig the brain out first or how'd that work?
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Post by: Twispriver on March 11, 2021, 06:05:47 PM: I didn't dig out the brains, eyeballs or even remove the tongue or lower jaw - just took off the hide and put it in the hole.
I've got very rich soil with a whole bunch of different ground critters that seem to eat everything but the fat which washes right off with the garden hose. No scrubbing, scraping or cutting. The brain cavity was clean as a whistle but some chunks of stuff did come out of the nasal opening when I hosed it off. All the thin little bones in the nose are intact.

This isn't how I'd do it if I was going to display it in the house. The bucks and bull that I have in the house were beetle cleaned, decreased and whitened by taxidermist. When I do it this way they look more like you found them in the woods which is a look i also like.
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Post by: OutHouse on March 12, 2021, 09:54:53 AM: :tup:
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Post by: Angry Perch on March 12, 2021, 01:26:14 PM: I think it's perfect.