Found this while setting up my blind

I found this skull in a Swamp pit where I set my blind up yesterday. I put it in a bucket of bleach to clean it up. What should I do with it or use it for?

 

Umm that would mean there are some good size deer in your area. I would hang it up next to the gnarly buck you will kill this season.

 

Put it on your wall ? You cant really use it for anything...

 

Haha yeah here's some of the pics I got this year from the spot

 

Use it for soup stock...looks like there's a little flavor left in it.

 

Mount it to your truck grille!

 

The bleach will ruin it. It soaks into the bone and eats it up. It will get soft and be like chalk.

 

Only had it in there for a few hours. Took it out this morning and it's clean and still fine

 

The bone soaks it up and then gets soft. Bleach is really hard on skulls. Just saying that you might not want to do that with a deer u shoot.

 

Done that on a found head years ago , it will start falling apart .

Don't know your local laws but make sure you contact your local agent if necessary. Here in Missouri we have 24 hours after finding a head to do so . Nice find !!

 

Maybe putting some sort of lacquer on it would help? I don't know since I've never done it but thought it might work. I think it makes a pretty nice hat rack to me.

 

You're suppose to use peroxide for skulls, bleach will eat the bone away found that out the hard way lol

 

I use borax it works well

 

What can I use to eliminate the Smell it was sitting on Swamp since last season

 

I boil all of mine and then let the skull soak in peroxide for a couple days. It takes away all the smell and the skull turns out a very nice white with no flaking or softening.

 

How long do you boil for and straight peroxide or mixed with water?

 

I know this will sound crazy but I put my heads in a large fire ant pile. They will clean it up pretty good.

 

What this guy said!! My taxidermist said only use hydrogen peroxide