Dead Buck

[ajadams]

Today I was out working on one of my food plots and found a dead buck. I have been in that area a few times this year and never noticed it. I went to lift the head and saw the one side of the rack was laying underneath it. So with a little effort I was able to take off the other side. I have never been able to remove antlers this way so I am guessing he died fairly recent. Has anyone else ever tried this and succeeded?

 

[Shredder]

keep the skull as well and boil it out if you can...makes for a neat euro mount

 

[alaskanwhtail]

I went to drag a little forky out from some brush and the both horns came off, interesting.

 

[OneSlugDoug]

i wish that would happen to me when i find one dead

 

[Bowhunter500]

Shredder... how would that make a neat european skull mount... are u talkin about just the skull or antlers with it.. becuz he took both of them off.. i guess when i think of a european skull mount.. i think of it as a buck skull with antlers? maybe thats just me!

 

[kvschmid]

Not sure what Shredder meant but it would be a discussion piece with a euro'd skull and the horns hanging from it by a strip of aged leather. I've never seen it done but would give it a try as you don't really have anything to lose. I suppose some of you shed guys find both sheds and anticipate the skull coming later with a new set - right? In a way it would be a testimony to this particular animal's life and death.

 

[muddy]

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Shredder... how would that make a neat european skull mount... are u talkin about just the skull or antlers with it.. becuz he took both of them off.. i guess when i think of a european skull mount.. i think of it as a buck skull with antlers? maybe thats just me!

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He's talking about boiling the skull down and having the antlers seperate from it. The typical euro mount does have them attached. It'd make a neat conversation piece to have the skull to match your horns.

Someone on here has a picture of exactly what Shredder is referring too, but I think one antler is attached to the skull and one isn't.

 

[Woody21]

By saving the skull..... It's also interesting to hold other sets of sheds up to the bare skull to get a real sense of how they might have set upon the deers head. I do this often with a skull I saved. I found it very educational too.

Woody

 

[THA4]

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Shredder... how would that make a neat european skull mount... are u talkin about just the skull or antlers with it.. becuz he took both of them off.. i guess when i think of a european skull mount.. i think of it as a buck skull with antlers? maybe thats just me!

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He's talking about boiling the skull down and having the antlers seperate from it. The typical euro mount does have them attached. It'd make a neat conversation piece to have the skull to match your horns.

Someone on here has a picture of exactly what Shredder is referring too, but I think one antler is attached to the skull and one isn't.

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i like this idea!!

 

[Bowhunter500]

Yea.. im used to the euro mounts with the antlers... That would be a neat idea tho.. ill have to keep that in mind!

 

[Thinkin Rut]

I popped this one off last year...looked forever for the other side with no luck. I jumped him in the middle of February and found him three weeks later dead.

 

[firedog]

That's a nice one THINKIN RUT! It's kinda weird how it goes down into the skull.