Multitasking. Antlers + Stumps +Uglies = ?

[Hddnis]

Try mentioning on facebook that you put down your faithful old dog that was in terrible pain and dying of cancer, couldn't eat and could barely drink, wasting away.

They scream and howl and tell you it's illegal, you have to take it to a vet and "Have it done painlessly and humanely." Yeah, the old dog is going to love the three hour ride over the bumpy gravel roads in a one ton truck right before he dies.

Their answer? "Maybe give him some Tylenol."


Mr. HE

 

[Sawdust inspector]

I find the biggest ant hill and chain it to a post and let them at it for awhile. Problem is I forgot where I put it with the grass getting to be waste high during the summer.

 

[sledge&wedge]

After they are completely defleshed, they bleach them. Basically the same stuff they use to bleach hair. My understanding is that the bleaching step is easier than the cleaning step.

I've done 6 or 7 of my own... After you manually remove as much meat/flesh as possible, just boil them in salt water for 3-4 hours. Then pick them clean again, rinse, and repeat. I usually boil each head 2 or 3 times, picking them as clean as I can in between. You can just wrap a sheet of cotton batting (the stuff they put between the inside and outside layers of quilts and blankets) around the skull, stick it in a gallon ziploc bag, prop it against the side of a bucket or sink, and soak the batting in regular old peroxide for about 3 days. All you have to do is make the sure the batting stays wet while you're "bleaching," and then unwrap and set the whole head out in the sun for a few days to finish drying. Works perfectly, and is a whole lot cheaper than buying scarab beetles.

 

[SteveSS]

Lol! I've come to find out if I want any constructive criticism, the "Facebook City Folk" are definitely a hoot! )

Another one of my favorites that struck me on the way to work this morning....."Oooohhh, I need some deer meat, let me know when you get one and I'll come get it." Mmmhhmmmm, yep. You'll be the first person I call, ding-dong.

 

[SteveSS]

Or the real geniuses who want to know if you caught one yet.

 

[svk]

Speaking of city folk. Husqvarna posted a picture of a guy cutting down a really big tree on their Facebook page and the tree huggers were spewing hate all over.

 

[Cody]

Speaking of city folk. Husqvarna posted a picture of a guy cutting down a really big tree on their Facebook page and the tree huggers were spewing hate all over.

There was one on facebook the other day showing a guy standing next to a great big redwood or sequoia that showed the tree started growing in year 450 or something like that, and highlighted moments in history such as wars and what not up to the trees death. People were jumping all over it....quick to judge.

 

[svk]

Honestly if I had the skill to take down a monster like that I'd consider it an honor.

The big fight up here is about wolf hunting. The people fighting it don't even live here. So many misconceptions.

 

[bert the turtle]

I wire the head to a post or something and leave it in the pond until clean. Comes out spotless but not super white

My son didn't want me to bleach his deer skull last year but I'm planning to wire this year's to the chimney after the catfish clean it to let the sun bleach it where the mice and other bone-chewing animals won't get it. Skulls I've found in fields or the woods are pure white so I figure as long as I protect it from getting carried off by birds it will come out fine.

 

[Sawdust inspector]

Honestly if I had the skill to take down a monster like that I'd consider it an honor.

The big fight up here is about wolf hunting. The people fighting it don't even live here. So many misconceptions.[/QUOTE
I keep trail cameras up year round around my beef pasture and check often expecially during calving time. I have a 7mm waiting just incase something gets close

 

[sledge&wedge]

Another one of my favorites that struck me on the way to work this morning....."Oooohhh, I need some deer meat, let me know when you get one and I'll come get it." Mmmhhmmmm, yep. You'll be the first person I call, ding-dong.

This is a yearly struggle. People ask for deer constantly. I offer up almost every deer I kill, but the catch is that they have to take the WHOLE deer or NO deer. Nobody ever takes me up on the offer. Everybody wants the meat, nobody wants the work. I do have ONE old fella that will take any deer, any sex, any size, and butcher it himself. I gave him 3 does last year and he kept asking for more. He eats deer every single day. Just like Bubba from Forrest Gump... Deer stew, deer sandwich, deer sausage. I usually will quarter them out and skin them just for him, because he really appreciates the meat and doesn't expect much more than a gutted deer with a hole through it's vitals.

Have you ever had someone ask for either a fresh shed antler or one cut from a full rack? "Yeah, no problem man. I walked 9 miles last weekend to find just that one antler, but you can have it for free and not have to do any work at all. Hell, want to take these couple of mounts and that muzzleloader, too?"