I'm looking for tips on getting bison horns off a skull that I'm doing a Europoean mount on. I am planing on soaking the skull to loosen the meat as I do not have access to beetles.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Mike
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the horns can literally fall apart in a tub of water on bisons. It happened to me before on a juvenile bull. If you have a mature specimen you should have nothing to worry about. If your bison is a young one, I would make sure the horns stay out of the water. You can also just let the insects do their work, and once the horns are loose and pried off the skull, submerge the skull in the water.
I took a rope and tied it around the skull and balanced the skull so that one horn would be poited down and right into my boiling pot. I boiled for half hour and pulled the horn off.
I them did the other side. Then you can macerate the rest of the skull.