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Speaker 1: As a guide and hunter. I've spent thousands of days

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Speaker 1: in the field. This show is about translating my hard

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Speaker 1: to your ultimate goal success in the field. I'm Remy Warren.

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Speaker 1: This is cutting the distance. Welcome back everybody. Hopefully maybe

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Speaker 1: some of you out there have found some success, and

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Speaker 1: if you have, maybe you're wondering, now what do I

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Speaker 1: do with the skull and anurs. Maybe you aren't going

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Speaker 1: to mount it, but you want to present it in

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Speaker 1: an awesome way. So doing what's called the European mount

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Speaker 1: is a really popular option. Now, you can obviously take

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Speaker 1: it to attack. It must have it done. But for

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Speaker 1: those of you that might want to do it yourself,

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Speaker 1: or maybe you're traveling to another state. You've got something

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Speaker 1: This week, I'm gonna give you some tips on how

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Speaker 1: to properly we'll call it boil out at elk Skull

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Speaker 1: or European and elk Skull, and then I'm gonna also

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Speaker 1: give you tips for transporting or traveling back home and

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Speaker 1: options that you might have that you don't have to

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Speaker 1: travel with brain matter, and you can do it yourself

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Speaker 1: without having to drop it off at attacks it or missed.

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Speaker 1: But before we do that, I'm gonna tell you a

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Speaker 1: little bit of my journey when it comes to boiling

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Speaker 1: definitely come a long way when it comes to cleaning

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Speaker 1: Now you call a European mount, I think it's probably

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Speaker 1: just because you see those old school castles with a

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Speaker 1: just the whole skull clean up, often whitened in some

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Speaker 1: what I like to refer to it as boiling the skulls.

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Speaker 1: But we'll talk about that a little bit later on.

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Speaker 1: My journey of cleaning skulls or d I Y European

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Speaker 1: quite a few starting out, but over the years I've

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Speaker 1: make sure they're they're taking care of properly, to get

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Speaker 1: I remember the first time I got started in cleaning

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Speaker 1: Can't be that difficult. It was fairly difficult because I

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Speaker 1: lot of trial and error. Over the years, I've done

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Speaker 1: It had pretty much burnt through all three Elk schools,

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Speaker 1: But it's it's not. It's more than that. It's it's

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Speaker 1: looking at those memories. It's it's hanging up and making

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Speaker 1: And you know, maybe you don't have room for a

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Speaker 1: because I have kind of a little formula that I use.

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Speaker 1: I think that expression there's more than one way a

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Speaker 1: which is fine. I have tried hundreds of different tactics

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Speaker 1: They cannot express how bad those things stink. They are,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, the best way to clean a school.

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Speaker 1: But they also are not the easiest, most feasible way,

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Speaker 1: Like you can't travel with them. You can't. You know,

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Speaker 1: not everybody has them. You might live in a cold

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Speaker 1: if your power goes out or whatever. There's just a

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Speaker 1: you've boiled your skull before and it kind of still

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00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 1: smells afterwards, there's probably stuff in there that you just

430
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,200
Speaker 1: couldn't get out. So I just pop those out because

431
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 1: it's easy and it's an easier way to clean. Then

432
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 1: I take my hose, my pressure washer, whatever, and I

433
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 1: start blasting the skull, start cleaning it out and blasting

434
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,560
Speaker 1: and kind of every direction that I can to start

435
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 1: removing any meat or bits and pieces. I blast into

436
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 1: the brain cavity with it, cleaning it out, and then

437
00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,439
Speaker 1: I also blast from like any will you find, shoot

438
00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,359
Speaker 1: water into it. Try to spray everything out that you

439
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: can in between the teeth, along the top portion of

440
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: the jaw, and then from the back of the skull

441
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,439
Speaker 1: out the nose. If you simmer the skull right and

442
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,880
Speaker 1: you put in you know, the dish soap and the

443
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:21,400
Speaker 1: sodium bicarbonate or baking soda. You should retain all that.

444
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,320
Speaker 1: I call it the nose cone. It's got definitely a

445
00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 1: different name, but it's just the easiest way to describe it.

446
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 1: It's all the old factory senses in there, all the

447
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: interesting things in the nose. I like to leave that

448
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: in for the most part. If I'm traveling or I'm

449
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,919
Speaker 1: somewhere else, I'll generally just blast that or cut that

450
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 1: out because it's not imperative for the European mount and

451
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to clean if you just cut

452
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,360
Speaker 1: that out if you're traveling and you just don't want

453
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,360
Speaker 1: to mess with it if you're If I'm at home

454
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 1: and I have the time, I always take time to

455
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 1: just you know, make sure I simmer everything right and

456
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 1: keep that. But it's better to just start blasting things

457
00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,200
Speaker 1: out from the back. Now you'll notice inside the goal

458
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: in the nose there's kind of like this cartilage piece.

459
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: I'll use a pair of needle nose pliers to pull

460
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 1: that out, being careful not to break anything. So in

461
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: your kid of things you're gonna need for this is

462
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 1: probably a screw driver, needle, nose, pliers, knife, some form

463
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,400
Speaker 1: of water to blast, whether it's a hose, whether it's

464
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,479
Speaker 1: a sink, whether it's whatever. And then you're boiling stuff

465
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: or your water kit. Once that is all done, once

466
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 1: the skull is completely cleaned up, now it's gonna be

467
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 1: time to whiten it. I have found the best way

468
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:34,199
Speaker 1: to whiten the skulls is generally using hydrogen peroxide. I

469
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 1: get a little bit stronger dosage of it. I get

470
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: like the food grade I think it would be for

471
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 1: d V. It's normally used for like hair dye hair salons.

472
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 1: You can buy it online. It's like a commercial grade

473
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,439
Speaker 1: hydrogen peroxide. Now, the hydrogen peroxide you put on a

474
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: cut would be like three hydrogen peroxide for d V

475
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: is actually I think it's twelve percent hydrogen peroxide. There's

476
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: a lot of ways you can use it. So you

477
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: can either mix it into a paste, which works great.

478
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 1: I've found that dunking it, like submerging it into peroxide,

479
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 1: seems to be the best. It kind of will attach

480
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 1: to any piece of meat, bubble, fizz and burn that

481
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 1: stuff off. I like to submerge it because I try

482
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: to keep everything in the nose. I want all that clean.

483
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 1: It's hard to like put paste in there and make

484
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 1: it work. Now, one thing you're gonna find is, Okay,

485
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 1: what's the balance of how much peroxide I'm using and

486
00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: can I get it submerged. So you're gonna need to

487
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: find a container that really matches the size of the

488
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: skull and then prop it in a way that the

489
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: level of the peroxide doesn't actually hit the antlers. Now,

490
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: if I do use straight for d V, I'll probably

491
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: let it sit on the skull for I don't know,

492
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: six hours, eight hours. I mean you can kind of

493
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: start to tell what it looks like. If I start

494
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: have to cut it, then I might leave it overnight

495
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: or longer. So cutting it would just be adding water.

496
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: So if I cut it in half, if I use whatever,

497
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: I think they come in, like a gallon jug can

498
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: get expensive if you have to use that much, but

499
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: a gallon jugo that and then a gallon of water.

500
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: Now we're around six percent hydrogen peroxide. So I'm gonna

501
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: probably let it sit for a little bit longer. If

502
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: I have to cut it down to three, I'm really

503
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: gonna let it sit. Another option would be like they

504
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: make that same forty v in like a gel where

505
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 1: you can just coade it. I would do that and

506
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,640
Speaker 1: let it sit for about five or six hours. Now,

507
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: what you want to do is make sure obviously the

508
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: peroxide doesn't get on them because it will start turning

509
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: them white. So you run it up to the level

510
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: and then what I'll do is I'll take a paper towel,

511
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: wrap it around the base, and then cover that paper

512
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: towel with the peroxide. Another option I'm just throwing out

513
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of different options for whitening the skull will

514
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: be if you want to just use the peroxide poured

515
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: over the paper towels, like cover the skull and paper

516
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: towels and pour the peroxide on it. One thing you're

517
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: gonna want to do is make sure that you use

518
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: the peroxide with a plastic container, not a metal container,

519
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: and definitely use gloves because that peroxide will burn your

520
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: skin at that higher level. You just don't want it

521
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 1: on your skin or get it on your clothes. Those

522
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: it will kind of bleach out your clothes. But the

523
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: peroxide is good because it doesn't deteriorate the bone. So

524
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,679
Speaker 1: if like you know, here people say bleach a skull

525
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: I think the term more means like bleach it white,

526
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean use bleach, because if you use bleach,

527
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 1: which I have used before, the skull gets brittle and

528
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: starts to fall apart after a little while. It might

529
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: take a few years, but it's just not gonna last.

530
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 1: So the peroxide seems to be one of the better ways.

531
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: I've also used other things like oxy clean um not

532
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: mixed with the peroxide, just oxy clean, or biz which

533
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: is like another detergent as a degrease or but I

534
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: think that the peroxide probably works the best if you

535
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: only have a couple options. I mean, I've found sometimes

536
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, you're traveling somewhere. What I'll do is

537
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 1: I'll go just into a supermarket. I mean, I have

538
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: quite a few skulls at my house that I've gone

539
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: to the supermarket. I've just got women's hair dye Platinum Blonde.

540
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 1: Open up the packet and use that. I'm actually looking

541
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: at Antelope School that I did it a few years ago,

542
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: that I use that on. It's now starting to kind

543
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: of feel greasy and uh, I don't know, it's like

544
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: got this weird like greasy texture to it. It's like

545
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: years later. So I've decided that I kind of stopped

546
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: using that because it kind of gets this like makes

547
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,959
Speaker 1: the skull feel weird later on, and actually some of it,

548
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, it didn't really turn out as good

549
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: as just using the regular hydrogen peroxide or the fort

550
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: V whatever. I use the stabilized stuff because that way,

551
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: if you open it a lot of hydrogen peroxide, and

552
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,439
Speaker 1: if you're buying it, get the stabilized one, because what happens.

553
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: You'll open it, you'll use it, you'll put the lid

554
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: back on, but once it's kind of contacted air, it

555
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 1: starts to lose its potency. So you want the stuff

556
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: that doesn't lose its potency if you're just buying it. Anyways.

557
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: Now there's also peroxide gel, which it works really well.

558
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: You can kind of, I mean, you use less of it.

559
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: You can have a small bottle. It's easier to travel with.

560
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: You can put that on the skull, clean it up

561
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: that way. That's a really good way that I use

562
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: when I'm traveling. I generally won't submerge it, but I'll

563
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: just use that gel and it's just easier to travel with,

564
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: easier to find. And then I can clean the skull

565
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: that way, so when I get back home, Hey, the

566
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: skull is done. I can travel across state lines. I

567
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: don't have to worry. Now, let's say you're traveling hunting

568
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: and you need to remove the brain without your like,

569
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: I don't have the stuff to boil it, I don't

570
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: have the time. Whatever. Another option would be if you

571
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: don't want to skull cap it, what I'll do is

572
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: I'll cut the back of the skull right where at

573
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: the occipital joint where it kind of goes into the spine.

574
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 1: I'll cut that portion off with a handsaw. I'll then

575
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: get in there with my knife or whatever and remove

576
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: the brain. You could then even clean it up a

577
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: little bit with some gel peroxide, and you should be

578
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: good to go. Now the brain and spinal material is gone.

579
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: There's none in there, none left. You can save that

580
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 1: piece that you saw it off and epoxy back on

581
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: later if you ever want to use like a skull

582
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: hooker type mount. Otherwise, it actually mounts to the wall

583
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: pretty good without that piece on the back. I prefer

584
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: to just keep it and re attach it later with

585
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: some bondo and a POxy maybe like run a screw

586
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: through it and just get it on there. So I can,

587
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: you know, if I would decide don't want to use

588
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: a skull hooker or something like that, it's pretty easy

589
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: to do that in a nutshell. Is how you clean

590
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: or d I y European mount for an elker deer,

591
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: pretty much anything. I do the same technique for everything,

592
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: and if you do that, you're gonna have a really

593
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: good result. It's really fun to try. I know, it's

594
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: kind of one thing. It's like, Okay, can you really

595
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: listen to this in a podcast and understand how to

596
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: do it? I think so. I mean I wish that

597
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: when I started somebody just told me these things and

598
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: it would have made it a lot more, a lot

599
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: easier to understand. I did. I'm going to try to

600
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: do a couple of videos of this. I got something

601
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: on my Instagram right now if you kind of want

602
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: to like a recap of it and just to see

603
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: some of the steps in process. But I think that

604
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's not that hard to do. As a

605
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: side note, I will say, if you're gonna blast the

606
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: skull with anything, put your rain gear on. I have

607
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: also tried people say just oh, just use the pressure

608
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: washer don't or a hot pressure washer. Don't even boil it.

609
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't turn out that well. The school needs some

610
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: form of degreasing because later on it starts to sweat

611
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: and gets weird. I've tried a lot of different things,

612
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: and I will continue to keep trying different options, different methods.

613
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: This one just seems to work most universal, no matter

614
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: where I'm at, the easiest way to do it. I mean,

615
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: in a in a standard year, just based on guiding

616
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: or for clients or you know, just whatever. I'm in

617
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 1: camp with friends, and I mean I end up at

618
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: the end of the year with like everybody, we come

619
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: over and we just start boiling our skulls. I'll do

620
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: a hundreds of these things in a year, and this

621
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: just seems to be the way that works for me

622
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: when I'm doing it. You know, maybe I've got a

623
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: rhythm and a system down and I've kind of got

624
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: it figured out this way, but I still constantly try

625
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: other methods. If somebody mentions it or whatever, you should

626
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: try it this way. I've tried different ways, and you know,

627
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: this way it just seems to be the best for me.

628
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: But I think that if you've never done it, or

629
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: you're thinking about doing it. Give it a try it

630
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: it's it's fairly easy, it'll save you a couple hundred bucks,

631
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: and the end result looks good and it's cool. You

632
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: can put it up on your wall and say like,

633
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: oh hey, I hunted that, I butchered it, and I

634
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: did the European skull amount myself. So just something to

635
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: think about, some food for thought. Hopefully you find some

636
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: success and you get a skull that you get to

637
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: clean up this fall. For me, this year, we had

638
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: a pretty good opening weekend. I was actually guiding this

639
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: last weekend. We ended up getting kind of tagging out

640
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: fairly quick for our clients, which was awesome. And it

641
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: was just like the first day was was rough. You know.

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Speaker 1: I gave those opening day tips, Well, it didn't apply

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Speaker 1: this year because the weather was so bad where we

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Speaker 1: were at. Nobody was out and I was out and

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Speaker 1: didn't see anything that was like the first opening day.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see people were elk so I thought, oh, hey,

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Speaker 1: no one's gonna be out, this's gonna be great. And

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Speaker 1: it was still really tough because it's really hard to

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Speaker 1: find animals if you can't see and if they weren't

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Speaker 1: moving around there's like no tracks. It was. It was

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Speaker 1: just a difficult day. But after that it started to

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Speaker 1: clear up and things started to fall into our favor.

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Speaker 1: But it also got me thinking, you know, when I

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Speaker 1: really think about, glassing is such an important tactic when

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Speaker 1: it comes to hunting out west. So what I want

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Speaker 1: to do is, it's been a while since we've covered

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Speaker 1: some glassing tips, so I think next week I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna cover a few glassing tips and really just how

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Speaker 1: do identify game through your binoculars, how to know what

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Speaker 1: to look for, as well as maybe that size reference

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Speaker 1: of people be like, well, am I looking for an answer?

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Speaker 1: Am I looking for an elephant? Like understanding the size reference,

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Speaker 1: and maybe some of the things that I look for

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Speaker 1: that help me spot an animal, not necessarily seeing the

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Speaker 1: whole animal, but just some things that catch your eye

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Speaker 1: help you identify that there's an animal over there as

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Speaker 1: you're glassing. So I think next week we're gonna cover that. Also,

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Speaker 1: you know, feel free to continually right in with questions

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Speaker 1: and whatever. I've also been getting like a ton of great,

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Speaker 1: great messages about some success and some just awesome things,

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Speaker 1: So thank everybody for that. Feel free, you know, to

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Speaker 1: few times, but you know, you know it does nothing

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Speaker 1: but help us, So I appreciate that. And until next week,

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Speaker 1: keep those skulls boiled right, don't over boil your skull

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