deer heads

[shooter19 0]

im just wondering how do ye clean the heads of yere shot stags and bucks. i do it myself but there never perfectly clean. any advice would be great

[Fidgety 8]

I'd like to know that too, surely someone knows where there is an article on preparation??

[gsmith 0]

My method is

1. freeze head

2. put in bucket of hot water for 20 min to partially defrost.

3. in jig and cut the cap

4. using a knife remove every bit you possibly can from the head

5. using a large old sauce pan with boiling water enough to submerge the head but not to boil on the coronets add 2 tsp of bicarb

6. simmer head for 20 mins roughly or until remaining meat and fat is pealing away with a spoon and knife.

7. once every bit is removed lay out cling film cover the skull cap in your choosen bleach type i use 40% from a friends hair salon

8. wrap skull cap with cling film ensuring is dosent touch coronets and leave for 24hrs

9. wash off bleach remains and mount..

 

 

this has worked on all types of dear i have shot.

Edited May 29, 2009 by gsmith

[wireviz 8]

[That will do it GSMITH AND MOST WILL DO IT THAT WAY SOME WILL USE A POWERE WASH TO WASH THE MEAT OFF.

If YOU ARE DOING THE FULL SCULL I WOULD AFTER A FEW MINUTES TAKE THE HEAD OUT THE WATER AND GIVE THE BRAINS A REALLY GOOD STIRING UP WITH A SCREW DRIVER OR SIMILAR AND THEN PUT BACK IN TO BOIL.

[sauer 2]

another tip....

 

somefolk buy the liquid peroxide which just like water ...you then have to soak kitchen paper and wrap it round and in the skull soaked in the stuff so that it maintains contact and therfore bleaches......BUGGER THAT!!

 

go to a local salon and you can buy hydrogen peroxide ( hair bleach) in cream form....... fairly cheap and lasts loads!!

 

clean small paint brush.....old ice cream tub..... paint the skull with the cream ensuring it is all over you can be neat and precise its fairly easy in cream form.....place in ice cream tub for 24 hrs and then rinse off and leave to dry

 

 

 

 

Sauer

[gossy 3]

another tip....

 

somefolk buy the liquid peroxide which just like water ...you then have to soak kitchen paper and wrap it round and in the skull soaked in the stuff so that it maintains contact and therfore bleaches......BUGGER THAT!!

 

go to a local salon and you can buy hydrogen peroxide ( hair bleach) in cream form....... fairly cheap and lasts loads!!

 

clean small paint brush.....old ice cream tub..... paint the skull with the cream ensuring it is all over you can be neat and precise its fairly easy in cream form.....place in ice cream tub for 24 hrs and then rinse off and leave to dry

 

 

 

 

Sauer

 

that cream idea is brilliant iam going to have to try that.

 

thanks sauer

[v-max 2]

Hi im lucky i have burco boilers so

1. Skin head

2. Place either cut or whole head in bucket of water to let blood soak out 1hr or so

3. I add table spoon soda crystals & boil water & place head in up to cornets only & do for 20-30min pending on head old/young beast

4. Power wash or clean head by hand till clean

5. Dry it out a little then preoxide it with salon cream peroxide all over but not antler & leave over night 24hr or that then rinse off with hose.

6. Once washed off dry out head hey pressto clean head.

[gsmith 0]

yup i use the cream type speak nicely to the hair saloon they will sell it to you im sure its only 5-10 quid a large bottle i havent need to buy any for years as it last so long

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

The wife is a hairdresser and I use 40 % liquid hydrogen peroxide , I never thought about the cream will get some of that for next time !!! Nice tip Sauer and V-max

[sauer 2]

hehehehe

 

dinnae worry foxy we'll keep ya right !!!

 

oh another tip!!!!! if you do continue to use liquid stuff and kitchen paper then make sure the paper is plain not coloured or patterned ive heard of the dye leaking out onto the skull and not coming off

 

 

sauer

Edited May 29, 2009 by sauer

[woollyback 0]

another tip....

 

somefolk buy the liquid peroxide which just like water ...you then have to soak kitchen paper and wrap it round and in the skull soaked in the stuff so that it maintains contact and therfore bleaches......BUGGER THAT!!

 

go to a local salon and you can buy hydrogen peroxide ( hair bleach) in cream form....... fairly cheap and lasts loads!!

 

clean small paint brush.....old ice cream tub..... paint the skull with the cream ensuring it is all over you can be neat and precise its fairly easy in cream form.....place in ice cream tub for 24 hrs and then rinse off and leave to dry

 

Sauer

 

I have always used the liquid, but find soaking the kitchen paper abit fiddly and a pain. I'm going to try the cream form and I've got a mate whos a hairdresser, is it bought directly as a cream, or do you have to mix a powder with a liquid to make the cream?

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

I use the cream when i touch up my roots so its always avialable .Yet to shoot a beast worthy of wasting my touch up on though .lol.

[martin 332]

I use the cream when i touch up my roots so its always avialable .Yet to shoot a beast worthy of wasting my touch up on though .lol.

 

 

ROOTS?????? You mean root don't you FD.....

[MOO 730]

Fuk me keano what did you use a blind fold a chain saw buy a jig ....sauer you and Vmax are a pair of fannys ...ugly ones at that

Edited June 9, 2009 by MOO

[J Darcy 5,871]

Keano, try to get an angled cut through the eye socket and don't splash bleach on the coronets.If you can. Still a nice lump of antler there mate...well done!!