TEX IS HIS NAME AND HE WAS A 30 YEAR OLD LONG HORN MIXED BREAD STEER CROSS THAT DIED OF OLD AGE. THIS IS A QUICK HOW TO ON CLEAN A LONG HORN SKULL. HOPE YOU ENJOY.
I don’t know how i got here but it was really interesting to see the progress of how you cleaned the skull and reattach the hoorns. I learned something new 😄
Holy cow (haha) 30 years old huh? old boy had a good long life This video popped into my recommendations, its not normally something I'd watch but it was very interesting :)
When I had small skulls like rodents or birds, I just set them in my mom's garden for ants to clean. No complaints on that method. Always wanted a dermestid beetle colony but never had enough bones in need of cleaning to justify it. This video is awesome though!!!!!
I been watching your videos for literally a decade, and I’m finally in a position to hunt and process my own game and to clean skulls. Thank you so much for documenting all your hard work, I can only hope my skulls look as nice as yours
Great video!! Great way to honor an old boy. I live on a hunting ranch in West Texas and anytime my husband and I find something we want to keep that died out here, we just wire it to our fence posts around the house. Once it’s been picked clean and the West Texas sun has done its job, we boil it once in a similar fashion and pressure wash it. We typically have to do a bit of restoration on the horns but not much. We use mop and glo also! Great trick! They always come out pretty dang white and never a problem with smell or bugs. Great job!
Ryan, this is the first video of watched of yours. I’ve done numerous skulls over the years, ranging from dear elk and antelope. I learned more in 16 minutes, watching your video than I have the past two decades of other crap on the Internet. Appreciate your humble way of explaining what has worked for you and why you’re passionate about it
I’ve been watching you for a while and bc of you I finally was able to clean and bleach my own skull it was a opossum that died of natural causes in my back yard
A few months ago I helped my buddy install a new hot water heater. We needed to figure out how one of the fittings comes apart so we looked it up on RU-vid. Although I didn't see the face of the guy I heard his voice and I am 200% convinced it was you.....also right as the video ended their was a fart noise. Was it you?
@@isaactrujillo76 no it’s not The proper acronym in plumbing literature is HWT (Hot Water Tank) google it Having HWT distinguishes it on purpose and is the proper way to describe it without causing confusion. Its a redundant name due to the fact you can have many tanks in your mech room like glycol storage tanks, soft water brine tanks, expansion tanks, pressure building tanks or supplemental hot water holding tanks to name a few. As well as multiple ways to heat your water. Is it an on demand system or boiler / condensing boiler system? “Water Heater” means nothing
@@hollistern2well technically there is. They are also called boosters they are on commercial dishwashers. They heat the hot water coming from your water heater to an even higher temp( somewhere around 180-200)
@@hakerjr2164 This herbivore is a true vegan because its stomach is adapted to eat plants. Being a vegan is not a guarantee of a long life. Try making an omnivorous bear a pure vegan and see how long it lives. I'm not even talking about predators.😅
wowww we had a cow that lived a couple of months shy of 20 years old . She went to sleep in the pasture and never woke up. And believe me Rosie had a good life .
Poor steer, those teeth were really worn down to the jawbone. Wow that was a lot of work, I myself have been thinking of leaving my sheepshead in an antmound and have them clean it up. Great work!
I got this in my recommended and decided to watch, I must say I’m glad I did. You can really feel the respect he has for the animal. Taxidermy is a beautiful art, thank you ❤
Ive watched your videos for the past 5 years ive done so many European mounts for my fathers deers and a couple of goats when i was starting off just to practice but in the end it came out great thank you for teaching me something that will preserve my fathers and my memories together when we go hunting.
super cool story too man! reminds me of "big mama" the cow my dad had that lived 20 years before she died. we let nature clean her skull and it looks good.
thank you for honoring this animals life in such a beautiful way!! I'm sure the client will have years of memories to look back on, and be able to create years more with that work you've done for them!
Yey I searched for this channel, this video got recommended to me randomly. I asked my brother if he still knew the name of the channel he always watched your videos, and now I got a video recommended. I like it to relax.
Ah man, I love watching you work. I harvested a bush buck with my son a little while ago in Thabazimbi South Africa and used your methods to clean it. It now honourably hangs above his bed with a photo of the day beside it. You have helped create such an amazing memory for the 2 of us!!! Wish I could send you photos. I’m really impressed with how you helped us… 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Was gifted a Scottish longhorn skull. Wow what a job! Thx for the tips and encouragement. Horns are off after a lotnof boiling and skulls in the boil now. Super excited to see how it all turns out.
Love this, just got in a deer head from a friend (I asked how they got it, they said "Look, you told me that if I brought you a dead animal, you would preserve its skull for me. You didn't say there would be an interview involved." which is fair enough) and this video was super useful, my technique works fine but I got some tips and tricks from you that I'm excited to try out. Thanks for the inspiration man, sending love from NorCal!
That’s is insane about the horns… but bad ass job getting it done! Always phenomenal work you do. To this day I follow your process for my euro mounts!
It’s 2am i have to wake up at 8am tomorrow for work. And where i live we don’t even have these types of cows but his video seems important. So, I’m gonna watch the whole thing.
at first I didn't understand that the horn core thing wasn't the ACTUAL horn and when he cut it I was like- W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING- THOSE WERE BEAUTIFUL-
Good to see you back on RU-vid!!!!!! As always, your videos are full of knowledge, and education that nobody can put a price on. Thank you once agian, take care, hope to see more soon. Your friend from Nebraska!!!
Lol. Hey can you go down to the local gunshop and pickup an ar pistol and a 30rd mag? Or how about a sig p365 with no safety? Let me know. Also whats your truck registration every year?
I loved this! I currently own some fox pelts and am hoping to get some skulls soon! I have a fake mini bullhorn skull but I’m hoping to get maybe a real one in the future! Mad respect to anyone who does this!!
Yay Ryan!!!!!!! I've missed ya brother and yes I would have to say that longhorns are by far the hardest animals to Euro. I just got done with a few deer today so I can enjoy my father's day. Happy Father's Day to you as well tomorrow I hope you have a good one and God bless
I used to watch you many years back! This video suddenly popped up on my suggestions! Glad you're back! My grade 12 pig dissection was quite easy for me as I watched so many videos of yours! Cheers.
I’ve done my Own European skull mounts before I just leave everything on it and toss it in a ant hill the ants will clean everything why do you take the skin off
The grease spots add character to the animal that once lived. Taxidermy is an art and it is up to the artist to decide what's best to represent the animal.
No please this is a form of art not a device to fuel your hate, this creator used the upmost respect for this animal memorializing this beautiful animal so don’t bring any hate towards this
@@KingRat-lz4zo it’s a joke I have an upmost respect for animals I am a hunter myself I have k i l l ed 16 white tail deer 28 wild hogs and won a big buck contest. But I get where you’re coming from.
Hey man! Sweet video, I'm a euro guy and custom base maker for a taxidermist in texas. I thought I was the only one who thought of using dawn as a soak. I honestly had only good experiences with just a dawn and water soak for a single day. I got a customer his Longhorn in a weekend it it came out well, no grease spots. I think yours ultimately looked better because you spent more time, but I loved watching your process. I'm lucky enough to get free skulls of animals people don't want during deer season so maybe I'll run your method on a couple and see how they turn out. Keep up the great work!
I've learned so much from this channel over the years. YES!. I 've done coyotes, javelina, and deer. And about to a pig skull. Thank you Whitebone. Excellent!
@@Patharr The teeth to start with show his age of 30 which is OLD, this bullhorn clearly died of old age and now his family want something to remember him by because he was probably a beloved friend. Don’t assume everything you don’t agree with is instantly false information Karen
i was playing a game and i rage quit then went to youtube and found this video on my recommended and i became calm after watching this this is ASMR but for the boys
We did something similar at school in science class, with a sheep head, but to remove all the organic bits left we dipped it in 100vol peroxide, it removed everything from every small crease and corner.
I don’t know if this would work but just an idea. I wonder if you could have started with the pressure washer before removing the horns and squirted up under the horn. May help like how you can separate two buckets by shooting compressed air between them.
So good to watch a video again it’s been such a long time and this was such a cool one. I paint life sized aluminum longhorn mounts for 54th st bar and grill and trying to maneuver those things with massive horns is such a struggle!
I love the song you had playing during the power washing lol. I wanna use that power washer and do that so bad. That looks so satisfying watching it all wash away.
Been a couple years since I’ve seen one of your vids pop up, I remember watching them a while back, something about seeing the process end with a pristine white skull is so satisfying
I know some people think this stuff is gross, but I’m fascinated by it. There are lots of different methods of taxidermy, and this is one of them. I have a taxidermied bass and a tacidermied shark (yes, you heard me right, a shark. A type of freshwater shark, actually and his name is Jaws). I’m also a chef, so animal anatomy is something I learned.
I recently experimented with three separate environments for maceration for three deer skulls. Control subject was kept submerged in water full time in a tote (water changes as needed) The second skull was buried in a shallow sand/clay hole, and covered with a tote. The third was left unsupervised in a low woodland swamp (no tote) all were left for 1 year 2 months and the results are interesting. Subject 1 is brilliant white with little grease left, Subject two took on a deep rust orange color but otherwise clean. Subject three was yellowed white on the bottom, but green with algae and moss on the crown.
At first I was like "oh he's sitting on top of his live cow, he probably just means that he's cleaning the cow's horns when he says he's cleaning it's skull" and then I realised he meant it literally, glad he lived a good life tho
When I was cleaning my goat skull I used something called lemon bleach and water I left it for a couple days in a bucket and it was nice and white no oil no flaking just a suggestion you could maybe try up to you. Love ur videos and hope you have a good day/night and stay safe👍😁
