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Today was opening day for our gun season and within 45 minutes I had a little button buck on the ground, first deer with a gun, i thought I had shot a doe until I walked up to it. And since im in the CWD zone, they had to cut the thing from ear to ear at the registration station to age it, and then lop an ear off so I couldnt bring it to another registration station to get another EAB sticker, rendering it too damaged for my skill set to try a shoulder mount… so im gonna do a euro skull mount, it’ll be my first crack at skull work , and im thinking maceration is the way to go for cleaning because boiling would be too harsh on the little antler nubs. Please correct me if im wrong.
Are the nubs soft bone or hard?
So if you are in the CWD zone do they tell you not to eat the venison?
maceration if not beetles, the nose will fall apart, but easy to put back together. would advise on trimming most of the meat ,tonque,eye’s and brain before the maceration to cut down on the time.
nubs are hard like regular antler.
The DNR guys say that the disease isnt transferable from deer to people, but they dont recommend eating it. If u have ever seen a picture of a deer with CWD, they look so poor that they have to contract other diseases from being so weak, so I probably would not eat a CWD pos deer… luckily though the property I hunt is 30 and 100 miles away from the two major areas of the disease here in WI, so I really dont worry much about having to deal with it
thanks for ur reply toxic, I’ll stick with the maceration, I would rather have a nose to put back together than the whole skull+antler nubs being brittle…
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