2024 Meat Pole

birddog 68 · Dec 3, 2024

Shumba1 said:
My buddy who picked up my mount said he toured the shop and Rocky was using a bunch of beetles/bugs of some sort to clean the skulls.

A local guy uses African Beatles. I've boiled a couple and it's a long process especially carefully cleaning the nasal cavity. Now I go the lazy route and just drop it off and let the Beatles eat and pick it up a few months later. He puts some mixture on and it's very white or he started doing camo dipping on them but I prefer white.

WYO300RUM · Dec 3, 2024

Boil. High pressure meat off a few times. Brains out. Dry. Soak in peroxide. Don't use bleach. It's oily and will turn yellow. Don't boil too long. Nose will fall off and desolve and teeth will fall out after.

HandgunHTR · Dec 4, 2024

birddog 68 said:
A local guy uses African Beatles. I've boiled a couple and it's a long process especially carefully cleaning the nasal cavity. Now I go the lazy route and just drop it off and let the Beatles eat and pick it up a few months later. He puts some mixture on and it's very white or he started doing camo dipping on them but I prefer white.

Add some baking soda (about a cup) or Arm & Hammer laundry detergent (about a 1/2 cup) to your boil water to dissolve the connective tissue faster. Then use a power-washer with a wide-angle tip to get all the gunk out of the brain and nose cavities. Doing it this way shouldn't take more than 2 hours.
Bleach as described in my post above and you will end up with a good looking skull. I usually give mine a coat or three of clear matte spray paint to make it easier to dust later as well.

quigley257 · Monday at 12:33 PM

We had 65 degrees here in South Dakota on Saturday. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get out on the prairie with the doge. There was enough wind to allow us to get close to a lot of birds without them spooking and flushing wild. It was a great day with lots of birds. I shot a double on roosters at the first field we hunted and finished up the limit with another at the second spot. We saw about 30 grouse as well as a single Prairie Chicken. No shot on the Chicken as I flushed it on the opposite side of a tree row and thought it was a hen pheasant until it was too far out.

tomcat818 · Monday at 3:37 PM

Sweet! Happy dog. My son & I have a trip planned for next year the hunting there is fantastic.

The_Whitetail_kid · Monday at 5:30 PM

Been a great season for me. I've killed these 3 solid low fence Texas whitetail across a few different ranches but have also helped out one of the landowners with some herd management on some nasty cull bucks. And hogs of course, those are a given in Texas. All 3 shot with a 6.5 PRC and 156 Berger.

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