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Euro mount ?
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ChrisB
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I boiled the head of a deer I shot this year. Used Dawn dish soap. Got it clean pretty easy. Ordered some 40% peroxide off amazon that took a couple weeks to show up. While I was waiting the skull started turning a bright yellow in spots. Applied the peroxide and it whitened it up nice. Now a few weeks later the yellow is coming back. Any advise to get it to stay white?
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Re: Euro mount ?
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Sniper John
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My thought is when boiling it can cause the fat to leach deeper into the bone and is now coming back out. The beetle cleaned skulls I sell I usually soak in dawn and water for several days before whitening them. Or several weeks if it is a hog skull. Using a bucket heater or aquarium heater in the dawn mixture can speed the degreasing, but since I do this to help cover the cost of my leases, I don't want to spend more money on electricity than the profit I make selling the skulls so I usually just give it more days pouring the grease off the top and extra dawn/water changes. Some people will also soak them in acetone to degrease them for much faster and I am sure better results and is probably what I should be doing with my hog skulls.
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