Antelope Euro Help!!!

Omegasniper23 · Jan 9, 2012

I am looking for some input on what's the best way to do a European mount for a buck antelope. My wife drew a MB tag here in NM this past hunting year. Long story short, she killed on her first ever big game hunt. It's a 13" goat with awesome mass, not big enough to mount but a euro is definately in order. How should I approach the boiling and whitening. I have removed as much meat and tissue as I can from the skull, I just need help in boiling procedures and horn removal/re setting of the horns. Thanks

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eurosbyRT · Jan 9, 2012

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never_satisfied · Jan 12, 2012

Don't boil them you have to find somebody with beetles
I just picked up my antelope from eurosbyRT
I have had 6 different goats done by 4 different people
eurosbyRT is by far the best I have on the wall
Save yourself some trouble and time and send it off to him

ElkSniper · Jan 13, 2012

LAST EDITED ON Jan-13-12 AT 07:34PM (MST)[p]I put like 2-3 in of water on the bottom of the pot and let steam for 2-3 hrs. (cover the pot with foil so steam stays in)

The horns should slip off easy.

I boil until all the meat is off. (take out all the brain)

I tend to freeze Antelope heads so when I finnish boiling them they have this brownish to purple color to the skull.

I paint them with a mixed flat paint from wal- mart and then wax them with wood wax to make smooth.

I bondo on the horns to the correct depth when they were on the skull so its sitting just like the buck had them.

Thats the way I do it anyway. Im not a pro or anything but it comes out great for me.

appaloosa · Jan 14, 2012

I like to do mine myself too. Just totally submerge them in water and boil the horns off. They are easy to clean after than, just boil the whole head and H2O2 when your done.
However, if you want a pro to do it, there is no substitute for beetles.

muleycrazy23 · Jan 14, 2012

>I like to do mine myself
>too. Just totally submerge
>them in water and boil
>the horns off. They
>are easy to clean after
>than, just boil the whole
>head and H2O2 when your
>done.
>However, if you want a pro
>to do it, there is
>no substitute for beetles.

Like he said. Just simmer it fully submerged in water and the horns should slip right off after a while. Heres a pic of one I just finished for a guy. You could also send it to us if you would like to. Reap the Bone Skull Cleaning, check us out on Facebook.

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alinrut · Jan 15, 2012

I picked up a Vandams EuroMount Kit and followed the directions in it. It's about $50 at Cabela's. I posted the process with pic's in this forum (did myself euromount).

Yeah, the title is all kinds of wrong, but I couldn't edit it once the damage was done.

Hope it works out for you!!

al