[rmr]

The Bad Luck is while discing my food plot the other night
I found this buck in the middle of the plot, my guess is that
he was hit by a car cbecause its only about 300 yds from
the road or he was shot by the road and made it that far
i think he is 21/2 years old and would score around 120
as a 8pt thats not bad. The good luck was I found him ,
and the butt that may have shot him didnt get the rack. Plus I have this buck on video.
I have been told if I boil the skull in water I can get all the junk of it . Any thoughts ?

 

[FiremanBrad]

It will be hard to get the hide off, if it's not too stinky, I'd try cutting that off and then boiling...

Glad you found him instead of some lowlife poacher!!!

 

[hunter7x]

With it dried on the skull like that I don't think boiling will do it.

 

[coyotehunter]

i think i would just bury the head with the horns exposed,throw something over the horns so it won't be drug off.let the bugs and nature do the work this time of year.

 

[riverbottomhunter]

Good find. He would have been a heck of a deer in the next year or two.

 

[danceswithbooze]

set it on top of an ant pile--they'll have it clean in no time.

 

[deerkiller012]

you could buy some Dermestid Flesh eating Beetles

you could get 50 of them put them in a cage with the head and in a copple weeks it will be clean.

 

[Hoytshooter]

you can still skin it with the hide dried on. You may have to moisten it up, and most likely you'll have to. It might be a little nasty, but I would get the hide wet so it's pliable again, and get it off of there and remove the bottom jaw. Then boil it in a water/sal soda mix. Baking soda does the same thing. When you boil it...you'll want to boil it for a little while, then take it out and get what meat you can off, then repeat. The point is that you don't want to boil it for too long at high temp. If you do you will cook the bone which does a couple things. First it weakens it which makes it easy to break, especially the end of the nose off, and secondly by cooking the bone you will notice that it discolors it.

 

[travis13269]

I had one like that and tied the antlers up with some rope and put it in a pond in the shallows - stripped it clean inside and out!

 

[Guest]

Nice find bud...... :cheers::cheers:

Here is an article we published some years back. It seems to work pretty well...

http://missouriwhitetails.com/articles_1.htm

Good luck