The largest skull I have ever cleaned: Bison from Colorado!

Normally I don't clean skulls larger than Mule Deer as I don't have the time or the facilities to do such things, but after caving on that policy earlier this year and cleaning up a big Bull Elk for a hunter that I had done some skull work for in the past, I had another client beg me to do a Bison skull that was taken in Colorado.

When he brought me the skull it had no hide, no eyes, and no tongue, but took all of my strength to get it out of the back of the truck. It was very heavy! I went to work on fleshing it and removed enough meat to fill 1 1/2 five gallon buckets. Then the horns had to be rotted off and the skull had to be cleaned, and that was no easy process. I should've taken some pictures of the process, but alas, I did not.

Finally the bone was clean and it was time to whiten. That alone was one heck of a chore! Finally it was done, the horns were scrubbed and adhered to the skull, and the product was delivered back to the client. I am very happy with how it turned out . . . . and even totally clean the skull was still heavy!

This is the largest skull that I have cleaned yet.

 

Happy Hunting!