Bear skulls
- Thread starter MD
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Too bad I don't know how to post these pictures bigger.
In the first photo the 2nd bear from the right was an older mature boar and you can see the canine was kind of squared off.
In the pic below, that biggest one in the middle was also a large mature boar, but still in his prime with perfect teeth.
I was on a hunt once where one of the guys shot a big old bear that was so old his canine teeth were worn down to flat nubs.
My wife has asked me to select smaller bears now, for their finer meat quality.
In the first photo the 2nd bear from the right was an older mature boar and you can see the canine was kind of squared off.
In the pic below, that biggest one in the middle was also a large mature boar, but still in his prime with perfect teeth.
I was on a hunt once where one of the guys shot a big old bear that was so old his canine teeth were worn down to flat nubs.
My wife has asked me to select smaller bears now, for their finer meat quality.
I did that too...until my damn dogs dug it up and ate it!
And there went a really nice trophy class black bear skull! I lost the hide that went with it when my father unplugged my "old" freezer in the basement and didn't tell me! (Figured since I had the two new freezers upstairs that there was no need to keep the "empty" freezer plugged in!) Two days of scraping prep work for tanning gone down the drain. Next time the whole skull is going to the Dept. of Wildlife. They get to study it and return a pristine, bleached white skull. The hide will be going to a taxidermist, well salted and let him deal with the messy, greasy chore of properly scraping and tanning a bear hide! I do like the looks of your collection though! Lots of work went into collecting those trophies I'm sure!
Too bad I don't know how to post these pictures bigger.
In the first photo the 2nd bear from the right was an older mature boar and you can see the canine was kind of squared off.
In the pic below, that biggest one in the middle was also a large mature boar, but still in his prime with perfect teeth.
I was on a hunt once where one of the guys shot a big old bear that was so old his canine teeth were worn down to flat nubs.
My wife has asked me to select smaller bears now, for their finer meat quality.
MD, what did those skulls measure?
I've only cleaned one skull but what I did was put it in a 5 gallon pail with a lid, punch a bunch of holes in it and hang it from a tree in the bush. After a couple of weeks the flies have picked it clean. I then boiled it in naptha for a while and sprayed it with clear lacquer after a couple of weeks. It still looks good after about 12 years.
