team tractor Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 Has anyone boiled a deer head? I have a munty head I want to boil as it's my first. I've googled it but it varies so much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Big boiling post and half a dish washer tablet. Roofing batten to clamp the antlers and the to G-clamp on side of pot to the right hight.don't put the head wear under water or it will turn them white. Skin and take as much flesh off as you can before hand. Rolling boil for 20 minutes then jet wash. Watch you doing loose the K9's I use fishing forceps to put the meninges around the brain and any clotting in the nasal cavity. If 20 minutes has not rolled the flesh between the eye then give 10 minutes more but don't over boil as it weakens the membrane between the bone plates and it will fall apart. Once all clean and you have found the teeth just epoxy them back in once its dry If you want to whiten then go to Sally's hair dressing supplies and get their gel peroxide. Pain it on a wet skull and leave for 10 minutes. Give the bleach a poke around and leave for up to and hour. No need to over night it like some do munties only take an hour. When you come to jet washing you need to get the white of the brain out. Hold on its back so to speak and put a foot on the antlers, you can now see into the brain. Point jet wash into the hole, not to close, about a foot away should do it. Make sure your looking carefully into the hole so you don't over do it. This is the way I have been doing them for a while. Works for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy69 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Agree with above but a warning, when jet washing the brain out it is a certainty you will get it all over you so keep your mouth shut....... Edited February 4, 2015 by stumpy69 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reggiegun Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Has anyone boiled a deer head? I have a munty head I want to boil as it's my first. I've googled it but it varies so much Yep, Alix and I did one each. Got well ####ed of the wife. Stripped as much as possible, then boiled for 15minutes and jet washed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted February 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Yep, Alix and I did one each. Got well ####ed of the wife. Stripped as much as possible, then boiled for 15minutes and jet washed it. I have a feeling mine won't be best pleased lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subsonicnat Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 A bloke I know used to put them on the washing line post, and let the corvids do the work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutron619 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) I've never tried it, but the way I've been told to do them - if I ever want to, that is - is to use a rubber band to tie a (waterproof) plastic bag round the antlers, then bury them in soft soil up to the level of the pedicle. Come back in three to four weeks, and the worms et al will have done the job for you, inside and out. After that, go on with the bleaching. Only reason I haven't tried myself it is putting them on the wall / mantelpiece has never particularly appealed to me. Edited February 5, 2015 by neutron619 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Agree with above but a warning, when jet washing the brain out it is a certainty you will get it all over you so keep your mouth shut....... Shhhhh! I was waiting for the photos.lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) Hi If I may add - dont boil it indoors.........very unlikely to go down well! Yes I know it is no different to making brawn but how many make that now a days? Only ever did one - not worth the grief....... L Edited February 5, 2015 by Loki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 As above boil outside I wear a visor just a plastic job like you use strimming but it avoids the face brain contact also a set of painters overalls help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted February 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 As above boil outside I wear a visor just a plastic job like you use strimming but it avoids the face brain contact also a set of painters overalls help. I'll drop it round for you then Daf lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 That's fine dog needs a chew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted February 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 That's fine dog needs a chew. Ha ha lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subsonicnat Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Come to think of it, Ferrets eat brains, very quickly, used to give mine sheeps heads.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleSimon Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I've never tried it, but the way I've been told to do them - if I ever want to, that is - is to use a rubber band to tie a (waterproof) plastic bag round the antlers, then bury them in soft soil up to the level of the pedicle. Come back in three to four weeks, and the worms et al will have done the job for you, inside and out. After that, go on with the bleaching. Only reason I haven't tried myself it is putting them on the wall / mantelpiece has never particularly appealed to me. arly appealed to me. The first and only head I've ever done I used this technique. Worked a treat although it was more like 6 or 7 weeks. It still needed a rinse round inside the cavity but otherwise was perfect, skin, hair, the lot All gone. I used an upturned bucked weighed down with bricks over the antlers to discourage rodents/my dog from having a go at anything. I won't ever be faffing about boiling now I've seen how eeasy it is to bury instead. The soil in that spot is really fertile now too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonty Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 If anybody is on the look out for a pot for boiling heads in, I can thoroughly reccomend bergland. They are a German company but correspond in English and are really cheap foor large stainless steel stock pots. I have no affiliation to the company but I have bought some big 100 litre pots for beer making (one of which I also used to do a red stag head a bit back) and they are great to deal with and cheap. For example, I ordered some for a mate of mine recently and it was £40 each for 3 x 100 litre pots and £22 shipping for all three from Germany to the UK. They do 21litre, 33, lire, 50 litre, 70 litre and 100 litre. You have to email them (in English is fine) and they come back pretty much straight away with a quote. Email address is catering-portal@bergland24.de Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moose man Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 I must confess to never having boiled a muntjac head out but I have done loads of fallow & roe , my chosen pot to do this is an old tea urn .Picked up for a fiver because the lid was missing .As above posts , get as much flesh of with a knife , boil , jet wash & boil again if required . The peroxide I use is not from the hair dressers as its to week but bought from the chemist & is 35% ..if you use this WEAR GLOVES..i pack all the openings with cotton wool , wrap the head in crape bandage (soaked in NP) ..leave for 24 hours min . quick wash . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fieldwanderer Posted February 15, 2015 Report Share Posted February 15, 2015 I have a roe skull (that I found!) It's been outdoors for about a year so only a little skin left, and thought it might make a decent practice job for when I have my first deer but I've not done it so far as I hadn't got around to reading up on how to do it. I hung it in a tree around 6 months ago but know it's 10-12 months after death because of where and when I first came across it, is it too old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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