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Title: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Stone Knife on September 03, 2011, 11:37:00 AM
I have been wanting to do this, the wife is riding her horse so I have the house to myself   :bigsmyl:   more to come as i go along.  (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y275/420W/100_0872.jpg)

Remember him from last fall
   
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Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: YORNOC on September 03, 2011, 11:53:00 AM
HA! Hope you have some Fabreeze!!!!
Beauty of a buck and looks like a perfect shot.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: straitera on September 03, 2011, 12:18:00 PM
Great! We think alike. Always manage to use my featherburner in the house after me & Ruth argue. Makes her arguments much easier to comprehend.

Very nice deer!
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: JimB on September 03, 2011, 12:20:00 PM
She may e gone but if you think you are going to fool a ladies nose...Get the fans going.Prayers sent.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Coonbait on September 03, 2011, 12:33:00 PM
I don't know if I'd get away with that in the kitchen. And my wife is extrerely tolerant!
Good Luck anyhow!
Glenn
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Seeking Trad Deer on September 03, 2011, 12:37:00 PM
:biglaugh:
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Stone Knife on September 03, 2011, 12:59:00 PM
Well she's home    :scared:    Looks like I'm buying dinner tonight    ;)  

I just removed the lower jaw and did some scraping.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Stone Knife on September 03, 2011, 01:59:00 PM
After a couple hours of simmering.

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Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Stone Knife on September 03, 2011, 05:03:00 PM
After 5 hours and a quick trip to the car wash   :bigsmyl:

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Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: freeman on September 03, 2011, 05:11:00 PM
That turned out great! I've always preferred a european mount. A whole lot cheaper too...
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on September 03, 2011, 05:42:00 PM
Lovely!
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Benny Nganabbarru on September 03, 2011, 05:42:00 PM
The wife's best pot'll clean-up no-worries, too, and she'll never know!
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Shawn Leonard on September 03, 2011, 07:17:00 PM
Thought you would mount that one!! Shawn
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Rob W. on September 03, 2011, 07:26:00 PM
Stone Knife, That looks real nice. You put anything in the water?
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: LONGSTYKES on September 03, 2011, 07:26:00 PM
Great buck. He sure will look great on the wall. Hope dinner out was good.  I would never hear the end of it from my girl. I send mine out.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Stone Knife on September 03, 2011, 07:34:00 PM
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 Thought you would mount that one!! Shawn  
I have several deer mounted if I have another one done it will have to be over 140. my best friends dad was a taxidermist he died four years ago. He would do all my stuff for cost or we would trade work, now that he is gone and I would have to pay the full shot I'm going to be picky. I put baking soda and a little dawn in the water.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Shakes.602 on September 03, 2011, 08:17:00 PM
CONGRATS!!  Thats a Fine Buck!!
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: GWV on September 03, 2011, 08:23:00 PM
Nice buck!  I always told myself I would never pay to have one mounted but then I killed one that was almost 150.  I had to do it but I don't know if I would do it again.  A man can spend alot of money on that stuff and they don't look too much better than what you are doing.  Good job!
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: rolltidehunter on September 03, 2011, 08:27:00 PM
great buck
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: JoeM on September 03, 2011, 09:09:00 PM
Looks real nice!!!  A little kicker near his base I didn't notice before.  Congrats again on a beauty.  Joe
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: threeundr on September 03, 2011, 09:16:00 PM
James, that little sign on the wall in the first pic says Donna's Kitchen! You are one brave fella my friend. Lol! Great job on that head though. Congrats on a fine deer.


-Leonard-
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Keefer on September 03, 2011, 09:34:00 PM
I see that sign in your kithen says "DONNA'S KITHEN"....You In BIG trouble mister....  :scared:
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Earl E. Nov...mber on September 04, 2011, 12:22:00 PM
Dishwasher works better than the car wash.
Dishwasher aka, high pressure, heated de-greasing unit.

Deer skull, no worse than greasy pots.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: jamesh76 on September 04, 2011, 12:25:00 PM
Looks nice!
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: ron w on September 04, 2011, 12:40:00 PM
That will look great where ever you put it. On a table , on the wall.....more versatile than a regular mount ....really neat   :thumbsup:  !
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Shawn Leonard on September 04, 2011, 12:44:00 PM
I see, but that is your best Traditional kill. Hope you shoot a bigger one real soon, I like the European mounts anyway, I have 3 done that way and they are nice!! Shawn
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: finq on September 04, 2011, 12:56:00 PM
just out of curiosity, how much is a regular mount?
Are there multiple ways or more expensive ways? Except a full body mount of course..
We have a lot of mounts , especially birds of all kinds and my father always says they're priceless because you're no longer allowed to shoot most of the species. At least in Germany.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Bladepeek on September 04, 2011, 01:38:00 PM
I generally save that operation for the gas grill outside. If she stinks up the house using the oven self-cleaner that's one thing, but me cooking a skull on the stove never seems to work out well:-(
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: smokin joe on September 04, 2011, 01:43:00 PM
That looks great. I really like the look of European skull mounts, and you can't beat the price.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Hopewell Tom on September 04, 2011, 04:24:00 PM
I do all mine that way, but the basic rule is it's never in the house. Outside on the Coleman only. I find there is more than a slight odour associated with the process...
You did a nice job, though.
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: larry on September 04, 2011, 04:37:00 PM
Mount looks good, I'd pass on the soup though...
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Stone Knife on September 04, 2011, 04:54:00 PM
Gee Larry you know your welcome any time.
Here's my wood I like to recycle old stuff so I'm using the wood from this chestnut bench that was built in the 30's. I'm going to use all of it after it's disassembled but trying not to cut it because I want to keep the integrity of the original builder's work and I want all the edges to have the original patina. My Howard Hill and a flintlock will hang off another set of antlers I took with a Longbow, with the skull on the top.

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Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: mcgroundstalker on September 04, 2011, 06:06:00 PM
OMG! Don't do a thing to that bench! I've got the perfect place for it.......  :rolleyes:

Nice job on the buck. I dig those euro mounts.

... mike ...
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on September 04, 2011, 06:29:00 PM
Looks Great Jim   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: on September 04, 2011, 06:33:00 PM
Nice job!!!!

Bisch
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: hnt2mch on September 05, 2011, 01:35:00 AM
lookin good! i use a different method with less work and it takes a bit longer but they come out really good so far!
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: mwosborn on September 05, 2011, 01:54:00 AM
I do that outside - my wife would not be happy with that smell in the kitchen.   :eek:
Title: Re: Look what's for dinner
Post by: Thumper Dunker on September 05, 2011, 02:11:00 AM
Godd job looks good.