Skull mounts

Lets see your skull mounts.

 

This is an 8 point i killed with a gun, but its still my first skull mount. Mounted it myself with a kit i got from Gander Mountain. Oh yeah and i missed this deer with my bow about 2 weeks earlier within 30 yard of where i killed him at. lol

 

Here are a few of my homejobs:


All were just skinned, boiled in Borax, and spraypainted white after drying.









The last one is really cool... He's got a bullet lodged in his face from a previous hunting season. The wound was fully healed, but obviously, the injury was reflected in his antler development.





I found it when I was boiling the head. I pulled out the copper jacket, cleaned the surrounding bone, and glued it back into its original position. The roof of his mouth is cracked and healed-over, and you can see where a fragment of the bullet exited just above the teeth.

Tough animals...

I've got a couple more euros that I've done, but I haven't taken pictures of them.

 

I got my first bow deer this year on Halloween. My first European mount as well.

 

Thanks for sharing guys! Never thought about painting the skull, good idea.

 

I don't have any euro mounts, but I like the way they look...

 

They look great , I love the look of the Euro mounts

 

You can see my 3 Euros hanging from skullhooker hangers in these photos...



I'll be doing more and more euros as time goes on...it'll prob take an upper 140s before I'll mount another whitetail or else one killed where doing a euro isn't an option due to having to skull cap it out.

 

That is very cool, I like it alot!

Did you harvest that buck or find it dead?

 

My 2010 archery buck.

 

This is my 2010 Archery Buck. Skull dipped, and, will be mounted on a pedestal.

 

Thanks, I did kill the Buck, made the base and did the habitat myself. I kinda left it outside a little to long and the antlers bleached out.

 

Cool, is that camo dipped?

 

Good job, it looks great, very natural looking.

 

Instead of buying wall pedestals, I just run a piece of wire through the openings in the back of the skull and hang them up on a nail.

They hang nice and flush to the wall, and look pretty decent.

I've done 7 of them like that now.





Painting the skulls is easy after boiling. I sand off the rough spots, then give it a coat of hi-gloss white (to fill in the crevices), then follow that with a light coat of flat white.

I don't even tape off the antlers anymore, I just cover up the bases with my hand and spray away. It takes all of 5 minutes.

 

Yes it is, Bloodcrick.

It's been dipped in hardwoods Snow, and, came out awesome. I was hoping that the skull would be predominantly "camo" with only hints of the white(snow). Came out exactly as I wanted it !!

 

Here is the one my buddy just finished for me..

 

Looks good everyone!
Here are only a few that I have done (the fun ones)!






Stikbow26's Illinois Buck


Before and After - Staining bleached antlers


Customer wanted something different, think he got it?

Hope you like them guys!!!

 

Mine from 2009. I think I will start doing all my buck kills this way in the future. Nothing fancy.