Glad I came across this video. It reminded me that I've had one buried for 10 months now. It was a dead head I found while shed hunting back in late February. I'll have to dig it up this weekend.
Nice coloration on your buck’s skull. I’ve done several of these and find that if I bury them with Fall leaves near an ants hill that in about 6 months there completely cleaned and tannins in the leaves give a nice array of colors.
I have one I killed in November 2022. I buried it only up to the antlers and covered it. It’s Jan. 2023 and i dug it up and it’s white and completely cleaned. I still plan on boiling it to degrees it so I can bleach it. The coloration of yours is amazing tho. Congrats
Just a tip, don’t bury for that long. I did mine for about 4-5 months. Keep antlers above dirt. I also, if you dig a hole, put sand around the skull then backfill with dirt. Helps with keeping the skull whiter.
Nice colouring on it. Came out nice!! I came across a deer skull a bit bigger than that one. The points next to the skull were 2-3” long. I would think the coyotes would have got it.
Scheibe: I found a deer skeleton a few years ago. The vertebrae was still attached to the skull. It still had tissue attached to it. I gave it to my neighbor because I found it on his property. I think he was going to try & bleach it white.
Do you know anyone with land on a lake or river? I have heard wrap em in chicken wire and throw em in the water on a tether they come out clean and natural colored.
I've done them without putting them in the ground, just pitched the the head over into the top of an old scrap combine so a coyote wouldn't carry it off. Looked good after 6 months or so. I've also boiled them in a big cast iron cauldron for day. That brown looks good though, may have to try it.
I tried this method many years ago and was not happy with the results. The mice even gnawed and chewed on the antlers. I ask a farmer who had numerous heads on a barn how he did it. He stated, “he skinned the head and nailed them up. The bugs and sun took care of the rest.” So, I had a bobcat skull in the freezer with no hair. When spring came and the flys became active. I wired the frozen skull to the top of a clothesline post to keep scavengers from stealing it. The next afternoon it was covered with maggots. A week later all the flesh and muscle was gone and the fly activity had ceased. I left it hanging for another month and it bleached white. I kept deer heads in freezers as well as other critters until spring and have had outstanding results. I learned of the beetle method from RUclips a few years back. I think I gave them the same comment.
Nice work my buddy did that with his pit bulls skull it died a few years ago when it was hit by a car he buried it in the back yard then a few years later he dug it up for whatever reason and now it's in a China cabinet in his man cave. I don't know what made him decide to dig up his dog but yeah came out really well
Glad I came across this video. It reminded me that I've had one buried for 10 months now. It was a dead head I found while shed hunting back in late February. I'll have to dig it up this weekend.
Nice coloration on your buck’s skull. I’ve done several of these and find that if I bury them with Fall leaves near an ants hill that in about 6 months there completely cleaned and tannins in the leaves give a nice array of colors.
I like this, nice natural looking tint, and thank you for your lesson in ‘know where the nose is’.
The color makes it looks like it was raised by a nuclear plant!!!! Lol. Has character.
Cool video.
Next one, take a pic before you cover it with dirt. That way you'll have a reference before digging it up 9 months later
That turned out very unique! I'll definitely have to remember that next time I shoot a nice buck! Stay safe my friend!!
might want to consider using the right kind of shovel, not a flat shovel🤣
Ooooof :/ that’s a no from me dawg
to each there own
Golden fried chicken color!
Nice buck . I think it looks really good. Now if I could shoot one I may try it!! Good luck this season.
Startting off the video by cracking a beer. Hell yeah, 10/10 content.
I have one I killed in November 2022. I buried it only up to the antlers and covered it. It’s Jan. 2023 and i dug it up and it’s white and completely cleaned. I still plan on boiling it to degrees it so I can bleach it. The coloration of yours is amazing tho. Congrats
You live up North or down south?
Dirt and oil. Gross
Just a tip, don’t bury for that long. I did mine for about 4-5 months. Keep antlers above dirt. I also, if you dig a hole, put sand around the skull then backfill with dirt. Helps with keeping the skull whiter.
Thank you
I have tied some off to a tree with a cable before and let small animals clean them, but I think I will start doing this with them.
Nice colouring on it. Came out nice!! I came across a deer skull a bit bigger than that one. The points next to the skull were 2-3” long. I would think the coyotes would have got it.
Scheibe: I found a deer skeleton a few years ago. The vertebrae was still attached to the skull. It still had tissue attached to it. I gave it to my neighbor because I found it on his property. I think he was going to try & bleach it white.
Do you know anyone with land on a lake or river? I have heard wrap em in chicken wire and throw em in the water on a tether they come out clean and natural colored.
I have heard that also
I had heard of this method but never tried it. I like the color of it and if one came out in a way that I didn’t like, I could always hydrodip it.
i like it better than a European mount nice color great idea
I've done them without putting them in the ground, just pitched the the head over into the top of an old scrap combine so a coyote wouldn't carry it off. Looked good after 6 months or so. I've also boiled them in a big cast iron cauldron for day. That brown looks good though, may have to try it.
👎 all that time for dirt...
I did this once but dug it up after 4 months or so, turned out great after cleaning it up a little.
Great looking buck! Hope to plug one myself this year.
Well, it looks like you dug it out of the dirt, if thats what you were going for.
pretty much says that in the title
Never saw this done looks nice
Cool way to do it. The Mother Earth skull scrub!! 👍🏻👍🏻
This was really cool video i like your your video the moming are you make a video when you get your wood stove going love your video buddy 🍺🍺
Let nature take its course 👍👍🇺🇸🦌
It would be frozen half that time around me
How many deer have you killed.
Have you ever had issues w other pest animals trying to dig it up?
Seems the cinder blocks would help prevent that?
Keep the dirt off the antlers
I like the color it picked up
Luckily no mice chewed your antlers lol
the bucket and cinder block seemed to help
I would not have thought to try this method, nicely done!
131k views on this one now!
I tried this method many years ago and was not happy with the results. The mice even gnawed and chewed on the antlers. I ask a farmer who had numerous heads on a barn how he did it. He stated, “he skinned the head and nailed them up. The bugs and sun took care of the rest.” So, I had a bobcat skull in the freezer with no hair. When spring came and the flys became active. I wired the frozen skull to the top of a clothesline post to keep scavengers from stealing it. The next afternoon it was covered with maggots. A week later all the flesh and muscle was gone and the fly activity had ceased. I left it hanging for another month and it bleached white. I kept deer heads in freezers as well as other critters until spring and have had outstanding results. I learned of the beetle method from RUclips a few years back. I think I gave them the same comment.
That color on that rack is beautiful
I think so to
Amazing video
Good luck this season 👍
I have around 35 skulls that i have buried for 4 to 6 months and they all come out clean
Looks nice, 👍🏼🇺🇸
Thanks 👍
No need in covering antlers
Remember doing this years back, had mice or moles nibbled on some of the tines
Very cool !!
Nice!
See
The dark spots on the antlers is dried blood from the field dressing handling.
Bez sensu zniszczone trofeum 😂
To each his own
2 seconds in a Subbed. The look, the beer, the sub.
we boil ours for a few hours meat all falls off and stays white
😭😭
Hows the smell?
Smells like dirt
So when you do this do you take the hide off the skull first before you burry it?
Go to 6:12 He answered you there.
Nice work my buddy did that with his pit bulls skull it died a few years ago when it was hit by a car he buried it in the back yard then a few years later he dug it up for whatever reason and now it's in a China cabinet in his man cave. I don't know what made him decide to dig up his dog but yeah came out really well
Good job.it looks good
Very cool, now the sun can bleach it and a good mount. I will try that to my next one I don't mount with fur.
Cool
That Miller lite ain't help none!
are you sure