boiling heads


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I am wanting to boil the head of the buck I took this year. I know a guy that will do it for $40 but it sounds like if you have a little of time it isnt too much trouble. We have a turkey fryer, but before I can use it as a heat source, I will need a pan or something. Do you think you can buy an extra turkey drum at home depot or something? Also, can someone talk me through the process...as far as how long to boil, and getting the excess off? Thanks a ton yall. I think this could be kinda neat to do.

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The way I do it is I have one of my mom's old soup pots and use the old portable oven and take it outside. First clean off ALL you can on the head, it makes it a lot easier. Then just put in some water and watch it boil, once it starts boiling then just take it out every 5 minutes or so, no real scientific way to do this and scrape off all you can, good luck!

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Skin & remove as much meat as poss.I boil mine for about 5 hours.Checking & scraping the skull often.When I have as much as I think I can get.I use the pressure washer to blast out the brains & remove any other hard to get material.Spray it in every little hole you can find.Spray up the nasal cav. etc...It will save you tons of time & work.Careful not to spray the antlers you will wash the color right off of them.After you have it perfectly clean.I mean perfect,you can boil it again in clean water & a clean pot with 2 litres of regular peroxide added to the water for about an hour.This will turn the skull WHITE.Do NOT use bleach & careful because it will turn your antlers white.I useually have a cup & just dip & poor the boiling water over the middle of the skull.

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It costs $75 - $100 here. My son does it here for $50 - $75 depending on what shape it is in. He has done a few for me and they really look super!. I am having all my skulls done from now on that I shoot (if I ever get to go again) except for the REAL wallhangers. I usually don't shoot anything under a nice 8pt anymore so it will not be that many...LOL!!

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Skin & remove as much meat as poss.I boil mine for about 5 hours.Checking & scraping the skull often.When I have as much as I think I can get.I use the pressure washer to blast out the brains & remove any other hard to get material.Spray it in every little hole you can find.Spray up the nasal cav. etc...It will save you tons of time & work.Careful not to spray the antlers you will wash the color right off of them.After you have it perfectly clean.I mean perfect,you can boil it again in clean water & a clean pot with 2 litres of regular peroxide added to the water for about an hour.This will turn the skull WHITE.Do NOT use bleach & careful because it will turn your antlers white.I useually have a cup & just dip & poor the boiling water over the middle of the skull.

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this is the same way i have done mine in the past except i do use bleach instead of peroxide....I also have taken some that i allowed to get a little "ripe" before messing with them and put them in a fire ant bed in the yard but if you do this make sure you tie the horns down becuase i have had a bobcat skull drug off by stray dogs before

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yeah, umm how do you go about getting the skin off the head?such as the ears and stuff? is there an easy way to do it?or how do u do it?when you boil it does that stuff come off?

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yeah, umm how do you go about getting the skin off the head?such as the ears and stuff? is there an easy way to do it?or how do u do it?when you boil it does that stuff come off?

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No, you must first skin the head out. The boiling is only for final cleaning and meat removal. Skin it out first.

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yeah, umm how do you go about getting the skin off the head?such as the ears and stuff? is there an easy way to do it?or how do u do it?when you boil it does that stuff come off?

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No, you must first skin the head out. The boiling is only for final cleaning and meat removal. Skin it out first.

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Does skinning the head leave knife marks in the skull?? I have two heads to do once the weather breaks in the spring.

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