Buried deer head

wilcam47 · Aug 29, 2021

CaptainAwesome said:
I used washing soda for the first time simmering in a stainless pot - very effective at degreasing and loosening the membranes fast. I kept the water from coming to a boil also. While watching the simmering flesh, drink beer and admire how lucky I was to pull off the shot and retrieve that rutting buck.

i "simmer" till majority of meat is gone then i used 1/4 cup washing soda per gallon, only thing is dont go over 45 min. After washing soda is added. Any meat or cartilage left should come off easy and rinse off. For final white use 40% peroxide and bleach powder 50/50 mix then apply as a paste to white part of skull. Let sit for 24hrs then rinse off.

outrider58 · Aug 30, 2021

Doco Overboard said:
Altar of Critical Deer Theory. (CDT)
Ive seen similar shrines elsewhere before.
If they were all mapped, it would be a trail of illumination, wisdom and knowledge set across the countryside.

Long live the CDT!

outrider58 · Aug 30, 2021

MeatGrinder said:
I've buried them and dug them up a year later. (Your piece of rebar is a good idea. Wish I had thought of that.) Works great. The only issue is that it is not a pristine white. One I bleached with Clorox. Next time, I think I will look into hydrogen peroxide.
I did a full year just out of simplicity. Bury one in Nov, and year later go to bury a second one and remember the first!

Look up 40 volume peroxide(for hair bleaching). Use the powder with it. Bleach will turn it yellow. Peroxide will give that pristine white you are looking for.

https://www.mckenziesp.com/Skull-Bleaching-C2025.aspx

Archeryrob · Aug 30, 2021

I got to do a deer stand setup at a kill hole on a friends yard for my daughter to hunt. Then maybe one night this week i will dig it up when it is cooler.

Not sure I was going to bleach it. It is just going to hang in the garage and get dusty.

gtodave · Aug 30, 2021

Didn't read the replies but I do this too for heads I'm not having mounted. I bury and cover with a metal trash can so's no critters can get to it. I usually leave for about 9 months (dig it up just in time for the following season). Always came out clean except this last one I did. The soil was a little shaley there, and I don't think there were enough bugs getting to it. It still has some leathery patches on it, so I'll probably bury it again for a while in a different area.

It's much easier and less messy than boiling them, but it takes a lot longer.

hobiecat590 · Aug 30, 2021

outrider58 said:
Look up 40 volume peroxide(for hair bleaching). Use the powder with it. Bleach will turn it yellow. Peroxide will give that pristine white you are looking for.

https://www.mckenziesp.com/Skull-Bleaching-C2025.aspx

This is how I do it but I have not tried the powder. I just simmer it in a beater pot and use aluminum foil to protect the antlers. Everything is easy to scrap off.

outrider58 · Aug 30, 2021

hobiecat590 said:
This is how I do it but I have not tried the powder. I just simmer it in a beater pot and use aluminum foil to protect the antlers. Everything is easy to scrap off.

The powder is the "developer". It aids in the peroxide's penetration.

Developer: https://www.mckenziesp.com/BLP-P13280.aspx

Peroxide: https://www.sallybeauty.com/hair-co...PTUetGJeAY5iFKQnl98aAhdWEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Or all in one kit: https://www.ulta.com/p/flash-lightn...XpOSVa293quTK0tYefZdD3c59AGifF0YaArifEALw_wcB

JamesDong · Aug 30, 2021

I wonder what effect sulfuric/battery acid would have?

outrider58 · Aug 30, 2021

JamesDong said:
I wonder what effect sulfuric/battery acid would have?

Ask John G. Haigh...

Archeryrob · Aug 31, 2021

Fresh out of the ground and the eyes looked sunken white and hard and popped out and just a little bit of grease for brain matter still but it washed out easy.

Seems a bit dark now. Maybe let it dry and hang in the sun somewhere?

outrider58 · Aug 31, 2021

Give it a good hosing out and put it in the sun(if it ever comes out again). You want to avoid it getting moldy so don't put it in a bag or anything.

BTW, that's a nice lookin' head there Rob!

huesmann · Sep 1, 2021

Archeryrob said:
My compost pile is not deep enough yet.

Do you live in a townhouse or apartment/condo or something?

J Beard · Sep 1, 2021

I buried one this past winter. Foiled the antlers. Borrowed a 55 gal barrel from a buddy that had both ends cut off, I chicken wired the top to keep out 4 legged critters.
I'll probably dig it up around thanksgiving to give it a look. Curious what I'm gonna find.
It's a nice 10 point road kill, Have a pic of it strapped to the front bumper of the fire truck.

Spent the last 2 years in the freezer til the wife raised enough hell for me to "do something with that damn head in my freezer!" :lol2:

outrider58 · Sep 1, 2021

J Beard said:
I buried one this past winter...

...Spent the last 2 years in the freezer til the wife raised enough hell for me to "do something with that damn head in my freezer!"

I have a bunch of turkey 'parts' been taking up room in my freezer for years. One of these days... :innocent0

Pushrod · Sep 2, 2021

teratos said:
You’d probably be better off leaving it on the ground in a place where something bigger can’t drag it off.

I tried that when I was a poor teenager and left it out till from late fall to mid-summer. I'm assuming it was mice that ate the bone off of the front of the skull along the top jaw. Came out nice otherwise, just shortened.

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