If you’ve been reading for a little while you may remember the piece I did on doing your own European style deer mounts. The extremely short version:
1) Clean extra tissue off the head, INCLUDING THE TONGUE, LOWER JAW, AND EYES
2) Put them in water
3) Dump the water when it stinks
4) Depending on the temperature of the water figure on 4-10 weeks

Well, doing elk is the exact same except for two small adjustments:
1) Use a bigger tub
2) After a week or so remember to pull the ivories

They should look like these two from the 2010 season:


For a more detailed breakdown of why I like the cold water method and how to do the other methods, click here.

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