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May 22, 2012
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does anyone have any good ways to remove ram horn outer shell. I have always boiled in the past but some told me to soak in water then put in plastic bag for a while and they would sweat and remove easier.looking for any ideas anyone might have.
I would not boil. Put in plastic bag and put aside for 2 to 3 months. They should be easy to remove then. You may have to hold 1 horn and hit a piece of wood (i used wood since i chipped one hitting on the concrete floor once) and they should come off easily.
Backwoods, both these are good advise. With the weather warm as it is now I would wrap the skull plate tightly in a plastic bag, tape tightly around the horns leaving the horns exposed. This keeps the water from discoloring the horns as well as keeping you from having to deal with the nasty, wet, stinking horns. Put them in an outside building or somewhere where critters can’t get to them. Nature will take it course. It will only take a couple weeks in this weather for the decay under the horns to do its job and they will about fall off! I had a blackbuck I did like that and when i took the bag off the scull plate the caps basically fell off. I will still cook the cores and skull plate to aid in cleaning them up. Don’t boil, the cores will fall apart. Hope this helps.
i send mine to the beatle guy. he gets th stink and the mess and i get clean horns and cores, worth every penny!
