photos of skull for brain removal *graphic pics

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ive taken some photos of how i cut the skull to remove the brain for anyone interested in DIY stuff, not just shooting an sending to a taxidermy to do your dirty work....

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cut down here an across there
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end up like this.
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Hinds is no problem, as there is no antlers which may be presented as a Euro mount , if taxiderming the head then skull capping as per the mould would be no problem either.
 
I just bury in some topsoil and let mother nature take care of it for me. Two have disappeared in the last number of years, not sure if it's my (un)trusty retriever or the ever so brazen coyotes...
 
When I do euro mounts whether by maceration, simmering or dropping off at the beetle guy - I always clean out the brain first. But I don't cut bone - I squirt it out with the pressure washer. Just be sure to aim it away from you.....
 
Quackman said:
I just bury in some topsoil and let mother nature take care of it for me. Two have disappeared in the last number of years, not sure if it's my (un)trusty retriever or the ever so brazen coyotes...
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double gun said:
When I do euro mounts whether by maceration, simmering or dropping off at the beetle guy - I always clean out the brain first. But I don't cut bone - I squirt it out with the pressure washer. Just be sure to aim it away from you.....
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He wants the brains to tan the hide so was showing how to remove the brain, not how to do a euro mount.
 
The one and only time I’ve seen a hide brain tanned the guy just set up a bucket and a pressure washer and quickly shot the brain out into the bucket with short shots from the pressure washer , the solution of mostly brain and some water was then heated (not boiled though) and mixed and this was used as the tanning agent. Hide turned out good.

I don’t know much about brain tanning but why does the brain have to be perfectly intact? Isn’t it just heated then in water to make the solution which is then applied to the hide?

Honestly asking as I don’t know much about the process , just saw the guy do his bucket solution and months later saw the final product at my buddies place.

Interesting stuff anyway Whelan lad , cheers.
 
double gun said:
When I do euro mounts whether by maceration, simmering or dropping off at the beetle guy - I always clean out the brain first. But I don't cut bone - I squirt it out with the pressure washer. Just be sure to aim it away from you.....
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A buddy shot a bull moose a few years ago. He wanted the rack. So I (he was squeamish about it) tried cutting it off with the usual v-notch with a hack saw we had at camp. Dull as a tooth brush, but had worked in previous years for deer. But the moose skull was much harder. Could barely make a scratch. So I grab the chain saw...

It worked beautifully... until...

Until the chain cleared the skull and sank into the brain. It acted as some sort of demonic upside down, sucking, high speed conveyor belt, and it sucked all the brains out of Bullwinkle before I could react... or close my mouth...

I was covered from toes to nose in pink goop.

I couldn’t possibly get any messier, so I finished cutting off the antlers while my buddy heaved his breakfast into the woods.
 
sigrunes said:
The one and only time I’ve seen a hide brain tanned the guy just set up a bucket and a pressure washer and quickly shot the brain out into the bucket with short shots from the pressure washer , the solution of mostly brain and some water was then heated (not boiled though) and mixed and this was used as the tanning agent. Hide turned out good.

I don’t know much about brain tanning but why does the brain have to be perfectly intact? Isn’t it just heated then in water to make the solution which is then applied to the hide?

Honestly asking as I don’t know much about the process , just saw the guy do his bucket solution and months later saw the final product at my buddies place.

Interesting stuff anyway Whelan lad , cheers.
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Hey mate thanks for a genuine question ::)

ideally the brain gets blended if one has a 2nd hand/cheap blender, then mixed with some water and heated up but as you mentioned, not boiling at all! just warm.
what happens is the fat an oils inside the brain, so mostly oils (tanning agent) will mix in with the warm water an be one solution for when it is soaked into the hide..
The water can be cold but it may not penetrate as well an may end in a untanned hide, so to go to all the effort to get it ready to tan and to skimp out on a 5 minute heat up would be the Shortcut that drew you back to square one.

its just more user friendly to freeze as one unit in a tin/bag than gathering a bunch of mush off the grass lol..

ive done alot of Euros, know all about the rain coat of fluid that the brain turns into an the extreme speed it flys out of the spinal column :D preferably a garden hose with the rate slowed down alot works fine. small band of sinue stuff will hold the brain intact unless it was boiled for a good period, which makes the extraction 'easier'.


With your Buddies end result, was it worked and ended up a softer hide or a harder 'floor rug' type? this all has to do with time spent on working the hide after the tan an prior to smoking.

ill have full hides done soon, about to get a heap of cow brains from the abbatoir, makes it less an issue with stagss skulls an probly be able to just skin the animal an take the meat as opposed to the skin meat and its head...

Cheers mate
 
kodiakjack said:
A buddy shot a bull moose a few years ago. He wanted the rack. So I (he was squeamish about it) tried cutting it off with the usual v-notch with a hack saw we had at camp. Dull as a tooth brush, but had worked in previous years for deer. But the moose skull was much harder. Could barely make a scratch. So I grab the chain saw...

It worked beautifully... until...

Until the chain cleared the skull and sank into the brain. It acted as some sort of demonic upside down, sucking, high speed conveyor belt, and it sucked all the brains out of Bullwinkle before I could react... or close my mouth...

I was covered from toes to nose in pink goop.

I couldn’t possibly get any messier, so I finished cutting off the antlers while my buddy heaved his breakfast into the woods.
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ha ha Everyone gets lazy ONCE and uses a Chainsaw...only once though LOL!
yiu worked out why!!

i've done it ha ha....never again.
 
WhelanLad said:
Hey mate thanks for a genuine question ::)

ideally the brain gets blended if one has a 2nd hand/cheap blender, then mixed with some water and heated up but as you mentioned, not boiling at all! just warm.
what happens is the fat an oils inside the brain, so mostly oils (tanning agent) will mix in with the warm water an be one solution for when it is soaked into the hide..
The water can be cold but it may not penetrate as well an may end in a untanned hide, so to go to all the effort to get it ready to tan and to skimp out on a 5 minute heat up would be the Shortcut that drew you back to square one.

its just more user friendly to freeze as one unit in a tin/bag than gathering a bunch of mush off the grass lol..

ive done alot of Euros, know all about the rain coat of fluid that the brain turns into an the extreme speed it flys out of the spinal column :D preferably a garden hose with the rate slowed down alot works fine. small band of sinue stuff will hold the brain intact unless it was boiled for a good period, which makes the extraction 'easier'.


With your Buddies end result, was it worked and ended up a softer hide or a harder 'floor rug' type? this all has to do with time spent on working the hide after the tan an prior to smoking.

ill have full hides done soon, about to get a heap of cow brains from the abbatoir, makes it less an issue with stagss skulls an probly be able to just skin the animal an take the meat as opposed to the skin meat and its head...

Cheers mate
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Thanks for the response and the info , appreciate it.

My buddies hide turned out soft in the end , after the tanning. Cheers
 
kodiakjack said:
A buddy shot a bull moose a few years ago. He wanted the rack. So I (he was squeamish about it) tried cutting it off with the usual v-notch with a hack saw we had at camp. Dull as a tooth brush, but had worked in previous years for deer. But the moose skull was much harder. Could barely make a scratch. So I grab the chain saw...

It worked beautifully... until...

Until the chain cleared the skull and sank into the brain. It acted as some sort of demonic upside down, sucking, high speed conveyor belt, and it sucked all the brains out of Bullwinkle before I could react... or close my mouth...

I was covered from toes to nose in pink goop.

I couldn’t possibly get any messier, so I finished cutting off the antlers while my buddy heaved his breakfast into the woods.
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Lol. Yep, if you bust out the chainsaw you should either flush the brain or freeze it first.
 
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