Thread: Deer skull clean???....help

Before you do the boil, remove all the hair and skin. That includes the hair between the pedicles (base of the antlers). I use downward strokes and take the hair right back to within about 1/4" of the bottom of the pedicle. Its easy to work with because there is a layer of gristle under the hair. Work your way arounfd the pedicale with downwards strokes.

After all of the skin is removed, you will find there is a slimy layer of tissue right across the skull from the eyes down towards the nose. I trim this off too.
Also, at the back of the skill on the top of the spinal column is a very dense layer of meat. Trim this right back before the boil too, and then after the boil take it right back to the skull. Once the cooked meat dries there it is hard to remove.

I take the eyes and stuff behind them out before the boil too. Cut around the eye with a sharp thin knife and push it all out from behind (there is a cavity).

Scouser, did you have have much difficulty removing the botton jaw? You took that off before the boil, eh?