Seemed like a good week to stick one in crawford county. Same night I shot my buck, a guy at work got a doe. He text me tonight and shot a buck out of the same stand. Had another friend smack a doe on Thursday.

I'm a fan of doing euro mounts. Got the skull all skinned out, then thought maybe I'd turn this one into my Halloween mask and scare the crap out of some kiddos. Buck Man's commin' for you...

Now that’s funny.

😅😂😁

That would scare the crap outta me.

Do you do the"swirl paint" finish on any of your euro mounts?

Congrats to your buddies on their success.

Boooo...lol

Never done any of the swirl paints on mine, but they do look kinda cool. I just enjoy the simple skull mount in my garage over sawing off the skull plate with the horns. Granted I don't have a lot of them, but honestly the time it takes to skin one, boil it, and bleach it gives me time to remember the hunt and all of the details that went with it.

The older I get the more I like skull mounts (European). I've done 5... I sorta stick to doing older nicer bucks...but that's because there a time consuming task..... I got a 12 pts in Ohio 4 years ago and did the skull mount....it scored 142 7/8....my friends though I was crazy not to mount it.....what I really like is you can put it in your hands and admire them. 
 
Second part BTDT.......how the he-- do you get close enough to a deer to check if the glad is dark.....lol....been snorted at tonight and last night had a Jr model buck....Button..... at 10 yards....lol  bad luck is better than no luck....lol

ha haa....👻🎃

I never tried euro mounts. First, a guy needs to get a stupid deer to do that but other than that minor detail, euro mounts are cool.

Many moon ago and a few years past that, a friend of mine did euro mounts from deer to woodchucks.

Heads of birds and small animals like 'chucks' remained nailed to a tree, letting mother nature do her thing.

Deer and some farm animals were skinned and boiled or placed in an ice chest, maggots added and sreen placed over the cooler to keep hatched flys reproducing more maggots until the skull was free of the tasty stuff including the brain.

The part I found most interesting was the bleaching. Cold bleach vs hot bleaching and keeping the bleach from making contact with any part of the antler was always a challenge, especially at the base.

Anybody wanting to see 'swirl painting' euro mounts need only search Youtube. Younz may need to watch a few different vids to find the experts but, there is some interesting & very nice work.

Big Tuna
 
Second part BTDT.......how the he-- do you get close enough to a deer to check if the glad is dark.....lol....been snorted at tonight and last night had a Jr model buck....Button..... at 10 yards....lol  bad luck is better than no luck....lol

Big Tuna just walk right up and ask if it's OK if ya take a look at their glands. 🙈

Surely you jest, a hunter with such experience as yours cannot see the difference of the tarsals of a deer in estrus?

🎃Your busting my ....... right?👻

Glands much lighter not in estrus.



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Glands very dark from rubbing together and peeing (urinating) over the glands marking the area.

Tarsals as well as area around the glands on both buck and doe become darkened.

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If I ever do get a "wall hanger" buck I will probably do the same as you Tuna with the skull mount. Its definitly nice being able to take them down and admire them. Plus...
I'm way too cheap to ever get a shoulder mount or the like 😀. I might pay for one of those "bugs to bones" deals though for a truly nice buck.