190MuleyHunter,
I have done quite a few skulls over the last few years, but one thing I have learned that helps me out a lot, is after my first boil, I take a high pressure nozzle and put it on my regular garden hose, and I can rinse out the brains and nasal cavity pretty quick. Once I have it picked fairly good, I put it in a peroxide bath. I have a little tub that the skull fits in pretty snug and I use about three bottles of the peroxide you can buy at walmart for like .88 cents a bottle. I let it soak in that for about 12 hours. I am very careful to fill the peroxide only up to just under the bases, because it will turn the antler pure white. The skull that is still exposed, I take paper towels and roll them up and wrap underneath the bases, and fold up a paper towel to lay over the forehead, and the peroxide leaches through the paper towel constantly, keeping the antler color protected. Then I boil it again and do a final cleaning, then I put it back in the peroxide for another 12 hours. After it is pure white and dry, you can put a coat of polyeurythayne, but be careful, because sometimes it will leave a yellowish tint. Maybe if I get time, I will post up pictures of some of my process. I can do them pretty fast now. I actually had this one to the point that it is in the picture above, three days after I killed it.
Someone above mentioned watching that instead of the T.V., well when my wife complained about the location, that is exactly what I told her. I said when she wants to watch some boring chick flick or something, I can stay awake looking at that buck. ha ha