Oklahoma Newbie

[wyoming556]

Glad to be here. I'm a gun/archey hunter from Oklahoma. I'm spenging my Sunday boiling the skulls from my 2010 kills. I purchased a fish fryer and have been using it to prepare my skulls. I have over cooked a couple and last some of the nose and lost the majority of 1 skull but if you are careful it definetly works and can save $ over paying $85-$225 to have it done. The secret is adding oxyclean for the last couple of hours. It really bleaches the skull out.

If you have any tips or better techniques please post them.

Here is a few pics of my kills this year.

 

[choc dogs]

Don't have techniques, but welcome to the madness. Looks like you've had some success this year, more than me. And you're close to my old stomping grounds. Looks like fun, and way better than borrowing your wife's biggest pan.

 

[cornfed]

Don't know if this is the correct way but it is what I do.I skin the head after harvest and then put it in a bag and stuff it in the shed for the winter.Next spring when I walk by the shed and smell something I get a bucket or barrel and put the head in it and fill it up with water to the antlers.I then keep an eye on the water level until I can find a time between fishing trips to boil it out.It is quite smelly by now but most of the meat is broken down and it requires very little heat to get the job done from here.I also put a little dawn liquid dish soap in it to cut the grease all the while skimming the junk off the top of the simmering water.Pick it clean and hose it off and then apply your peroxide bleach solution and put it in a plastic bag.I like to sit it in the sun for a while in the bag as I believe the heat helps in the whitening.After a few days take it out of the rinse the bleaching compound of the skull.If its not white enough for you you can always bleach it again.Our falls and winters are cold enough that the skull is just froze until spring.Nice bunch of animals you got there.Some taxidermists will also trade a skull mount for a good cape or give you a deal on it at least.

 

[ashersdad]

Welcome to the site. Congratulations on what looks like a great year.

I tried the whole bleaching my own and it was too much mess and stink for me. Probably shouldn't have tried my 1st with a moose. It was a giant mess. My hats off to you guys that do it yourself. Now I just drop them off at a guys place and for $125 I get a nice bleached head on a plaque.

 

[JohnCushman]

welcome to the sight

 

[Dinkshooter]

I own a Golden Pot.

 

[wyoming556]

Dink,
When the Golden Pot starts smoking do you relax and get hungry?

 

[Dinkshooter]

Dink,
When the Golden Pot starts smoking do you relax and get hungry?

For your boiling pleasure

http://onyourownadventures.com/hunttalk/showthread.php?t=244793&highlight=boiling