weekend hunt

[hunt hard]

Nice Hog and country to hunt in

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

thanks for sharing your story and photos, congrats Cold1 on your wild boar kill! very nice! welcome to JHO and the hog forum, look forward to your future post, have a great day...................tra

 

[Davidw100]

Nice Hog! love the rope spool, great hunting


Dave

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

That hog is a fat TOAD. Congrat's on that monster..LOVE the spool on the jeep. Great concept!!!!!!

 

[mtnstalker]

Wow!!

 

[bigworm]

Very nice hog. With the long snout, and the grissling in the coat, he clearly has plenty of Russian blood in him. That's the look that makes for a great trophy. Good job. We use a spool set up similiar to that on the quads. Makes retrieval easier, easpecialy for the long distance one's.

 

[Cold1nhand]

Thought I would try something new with this pig skull. We did not have this hog mounted, but we did keep the skull. And in the past when we had done this we cleaned it one of two ways. Either we boiled it or we buried it. While both of these methods will clean the skull, they can be a bit messy and stinky. When I lived out in the country this was not an issue. But having married back in September and moved into town, thought I might try something new again. And when I say something new again, this is what I mean. When I was a kid, my brother and I used to collect owl pellets. We would take the owl pellets and put them in a jar of bleach and in the morning the only thing left was the bones. Why wouldn't this work on a pig skull? So on the way home from RNJ I stopped at Savemart and picked up four gallons of Clorox Bleach. I chose this brand as it has 6% sodium hypochlorite. Many of the new bleaches today do not use this acid and I wasn't sure if the others would work. When I got home the first order of business was to skin and cut off as much meat as possible. After that I put the skull in a five gallon bucket, which was about two inches too short, and filled it with three of the four gallons of bleach. The next morning when I checked on the skull it was already starting to eat away the flesh. So it looks like this is going to work. I will let you know exactly how long it takes to complete the job.

 

[Cold1nhand]

Next time I going to do the European mount for $125.

This is taking longer than I thought. But still faster than the other options I guess. Think I might need to swap out the bleach, there has not been much progress after the second day. Any thoughts?

 

[Huntr Pat]

Whats the hurry. A trophy come by once in awhile take your time a do it right. I do skulls and I boil it my self but be care from over boiling. You can damage a good skull by soind so. Don't let it get to a full boil, just enought to loosen the neccessary junk. Bleaching process can damage if over bleach also, it can weaken the integrity of the bone and make it britle.
check out this site for tips;http://www.taxidermy.com/

Good Luck

 

[Cold1nhand]

Pat, you are right, I shouldn't be in a hurry. I think I may end up having to but the slow boil on. I am going to pul it out today and give it a few days to dry out then boil it. Thanks for the site, I will look at that before I do anything more.