While relocating a treestand, A stumbled across a dead and rotting buck in the back woods of the property I hunt, likely shot by the neighbor and unrecovered. Its a real nice 8 pt rack, I salvaged teh head off the rotting deer. Its nasty, but the rack is intact as is the skull.
Normally I'd just boil a deer head for a european mount, but there is no way I want to simmer this one. Its bad. Still has maggots crawling out of it.
Any suggestions on a good way to get it cleaned off? I was thinking just let mother nature do it by leaving it outside, but Im afraid of either some scavenger running off with it, or rodents chewing up the antlers.
Any suggestions?