Euro Moose Skull
 

I am in the process of trying to do a euro moose mount for my nephew. However I am having a terrible time trying to submerge the whole skull in water.:angry3: I have tried using my big barrel (boiling) that I use for elk but the back part of the moose skull is still not in the water.

I have done elk and deer euros before but 1st time for a moose. I am stumped.

Any advice for my 1st moose euro mount?

Small 110 litre oil drum on turkey deep frier base?

A friend did his in an old livestock watering trough. Worked like a charm.

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I had the same problem couldnt submerge between the base of antlers i covered top in foil and solved the problem

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by the way i use a 45 gal drum cut off at the bottom ring so you roughly have one third of the drum

For moose I use a metal garbage can with two slots cut for the antlers to sit in.
You can set the nose down in the can, or flip them to get the back of the head. Works well.

Steel wheelbarrow tub and tiger torch for me

X2 With lid on helps steam the stuff thats not submerged. Still doesnt come that easy but with a good pressure washer just takes a little time.

45gallon drum cut down. Dump about 4 boxes of baking soda in there, fill to the sop and cover with tin foil. Let simmer for about 2-3hrs

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I had to boil mine in two steps. First nose down, then nose up to clean up the top of the skull that was out of the water during step #1.

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Next time use washing soda/sodium carbonate. Same company, completely different product.

1 scoop of oxiclean and about 1/2cup of sunlight. That cuts my boiling time down by a lot. Can boil for 1hr. Really loosens up the flesh. Always add the oxi clean before the water is boiling or else there’s bubbles $&@&ing everywhere.

I had a extra wheel barrel bucket and set that on top of a propane heater worked really well.

I found that stuff leaves the scull bone chalky. Baking dado has a better finish even though it takes a bit more elbow grease. Maybe I just used too much?

1/4 cup per gallon of water and it shouldn't be simmered more than 45min.
At least that's the formula they taught in the course I took years ago.


It's very important to not over simmer (and especially boil) when using washing soda. You can easily damage the bone if you over heat with ws. If you have trouble regulating your heat or its your first time simmering a euro - I would recommend just using soap and water.

That’s interesting. I’ve had good luck so far with washing soda and 1hr simmer time. One thing I did notice was when I get a head that’s been skinned in sept or oct and had a chance to dry out and rippen a bit, bone comes out more gray then say a fresh skinned one. Peroxide usually doesn’t do much for it in that case. Any insight on that?

Also did 2 rotten ones this year (year old) and they were bad! But hide was still on and they came out fine and whitened right up with peroxide.

what is your whitening procedure? And what strength of peroxide are you using?

35% food grade peroxide 50/50 with water. Get that hot and then submerge the whole skull for 5 to 10 minutes.

What beast of a bull!!! I need one with fronts like that!

Got easy access to that version H2O2 and after a nice degreasing, just spray it onto the skull. Full strength. Takes minutes to whiten things up and sanitized at the same time. No boiling. No pressure washing. Wouldnt go near either process. Beetle it to get all the tissue off. By far the easiest way.

I have done heads skinned in November and boiled in October that turned out good. My method of whitening is I stuff all the holes, brain cavity, nostrils, eyes, then wrap the skull right up to the base of the antlers with paper towel, then soak it down really good with straight peroxide. Let it sit over night, usually about 16-18hrs then take the paper towel off and leave it sit in the sun. So far so good.

40 peroxide and basic white. Bag it with plasitc bag and point a space heater on it. Few hours and wash it off.