First solo trophy prep

[Treacle Trackpad 6]

Normally I take my heads round my mate's house to use his jig, and more recently his jet wash as mine was knackered. I did all the skinning and labouring and he would sort the rest, bleach and mount. Anyhoo, Wednesday's buck's head was taking up valuable room in the freezer and the long haired one was chuffing a bit so I decided to crack on myself. Heads are much easier to cut when frozen and I had already skinned it and removed the eyes before freezing. A short nosed cut was in order so I held it steady on the workmate and set about it with a wood saw. All done by eye with no jig it came out about 98% spot on so I was well chuffed. Boiled, jet washed, and left over night with a jacket of 6% hydrogen peroxide soaked cotton pads, it had come up rather nicely. My mate has usually donated a few shield too but I had none left; out came the band saw and a bit of artistic flair later I came up with a pine shield that I stained to a nice walnut colour. Anyway, here is the finished article, I'm rather happy with it and it'll be up on the office wall on Monday

 

You can just make out the scar on his muzzle which revealed bone growth once cleaned off. Must've been a stab wound from another buck. His left brow tine is snapped off and the back point also broken, his coronets are damaged as well, either some mega fraying activity (he was in a young plantation and was a pest control cull) or he was a bit of a bruiser.

 

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Edited July 4, 2010 by Treacle Trackpad

[Groach 7]

Normally I take my heads round my mate's house to use his jig, and more recently his jet wash as mine was knackered. I did all the skinning and labouring and he would sort the rest, bleach and mount. Anyhoo, Wednesday's buck's head was taking up valuable room in the freezer and the long haired one was chuffing a bit so I decided to crack on myself. Heads are much easier to cut when frozen and I had already skinned it and removed the eyes before freezing. A short nosed cut was in order so I held it steady on the workmate and set about it with a wood saw. All done by eye with no jig it came out about 98% spot on so I was well chuffed. Boiled, jet washed, and left over night with a jacket of 6% hydrogen peroxide soaked cotton pads, it had come up rather nicely. My mate has donated a few shield too so I had none of my own; out came the band saw and a bit of artistic flair later I came up with a pine shiled that I stained to a nice walnut colour. Anyway, here is the finished article, I'm rather happy with it and it'll be up on the office wall on Monday

 

You can just make out the scar on his muzzle which revealed bone growth once cleaned off. Must've been a stab wound from another buck. His left brow tine is snapped off and the back point also broken, his coronets are damaged as well, either some mega fraying activity (he was in a young plantation and was a pest control cull) or he was a bit of a bruiser.

 

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Looks a good job done there and a really nice head as well

 

George

[wireviz 8]

[ Well done great job and a nice wee trophy to bring back memories

[LBJ 11]

Very nice roebuck.

But if you one day shoot a bigger one and you want it meassured by the CIC you should take some more of the nosebone and leave some more in the neck.

Unfortunately the weight is like 90 % of a CIC meassurement, so therefor it will be very important to leave as much of the skull as possible.

Just remember the bone under the eye has to be opend.

 

Here is two who is almost correct prepared for a trophy meassurement.

Im making them myself so thats why they are not 100 % perfekt.

 

 

 

This one is almost perfect for meassuring, the nosebone should just have been a little bit bigger.

 

 

 

Please notice that im not posting these pics because i want to tell/show that Groach's trophy isnt good enough but only to show how he should do it in case he shoot a possible medalhead one day.

 

All the best

Lars

[wireviz 8]

I realy hate to rain on your parade mate but if you think that a head will make any medal 450Grms or over then do not cut at all leave the head in tacked and only remove the lower jaw. Don't take it to a game fair you will get stuffed or offered some king of of pre assessment. Then you will need to send it again useless peckers.

Edited July 7, 2010 by wireviz

[john robbo 30]

I relay hate to rain on your parade mate but if you think that a head will make any medal 450Grms or over then do not cut at all leave the head in tacked and only remove the lower jaw. Don't take it to a game fair you will get stuffed or offered some king of of pre assessment. Then you will need to send it again useless peckers.

 

+1 here

If the head is a possible DO NOT CUT IT AT ALL till after its measured.

[Treacle Trackpad 6]

I relay hate to rain on your parade mate but if you think that a head will make any medal 450Grms or over then do not cut at all leave the head in tacked and only remove the lower jaw. Don't take it to a game fair you will get stuffed or offered some king of of pre assessment. Then you will need to send it again useless peckers.

 

+1 here

If the head is a possible DO NOT CUT IT AT ALL till after its measured.

 

But if the skull is left un-cut you will be deducted 65-90 grammes depending on its size. The picture in the CiC Red Book depicts a short nose cut.

[wireviz 8]

TT If it is a full skull you will get deducted 90 grm mate no matter what but let me assure you that in about 99% of cases the skull that is cut off is heavier than that. If you do any cut you are leaving it to the chap who is measuring to decided what deductions . Again don't cut.

I was out this morning looking at deer not in the mood this weather anyway a trophy but of medal class he will be left till after the rut.

[Treacle Trackpad 6]

TT If it is a full skull you will get deducted 90 grm mate no matter what but let me assure you that in about 99% of cases the skull that is cut off is heavier than that. If you do any cut you are leaving it to the chap who is measuring to decided what deductions . Again don't cut.

I was out this morning looking at deer not in the mood this weather anyway a trophy but of medal class he will be left till after the rut.

Fair one

[john robbo 30]

An example T.T we submitted a head last summer un-cut and it was a high bronze scoring 1.7 points below a silver.

We than cut the head to a long nose and mounted it.

On discussion we decided it was so close that it might if remeasured else where scrape through as a silver.

When it was measured it went below bronze scoring 98.something

A flaw in the system somewhere.

[wireviz 8]

I agree john a problem that should have been sorted some how but i have a gold that came in at 130.7 just made it i have it on a shield gave it an assessment and it is mid silver good job i kept full skull or i wouldn't have the paper work.