Question for all you who have done a european mount.


Widowmaker

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Hello Widowmaker

My friends and I do quite a few each winter. Take a 55 gal oil drum-empty, cut it in half and weld back together with the bottom of drum in middle. Oh yeah, cut the top off and discard. Cut a hole in bottom to stick firewood in. Fill top half w/ water. We you pieces of rerod to tie rack to hold horns obove water. Small racks can fit 2 sometimes but big basket and above usually only one will fit. Takes awhile and requires kindling the fire but not to bad. You can get empty ones from a local coop/farm service or possibly a farmer.

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Crab Pot

I use a simple crab cooking pot and then placed a couple short 2 x 4 boards on top to keep the antlers outta the water, set the whole affair on my BBQ grill and then boil. Really simple and effective

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I've yet to have the antlers turn a different color when doing the initial boil, and have done quite a few. I had to get a new pot this year, and used one of the blue speckled ones. I wrap foil around the antlers when doing the bleaching phase though. I have had some turn a little bit when doing this, but it's really hard to see that unless your looking for it

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I hope this is not a hijack but....

What do you use to put some color back into the antlers that have turned off white due to being boiled? I have heard stain????

Thanks

I use shoe polish. Buy black and brown and mix the colors until they match the antler color. If too light then just add a little more color. Works good to blend the colors in.

good luck to all

the dog

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