Men,

I've seen alot of pictures now of guys on the last day of thier African hunting trips sitting next to the [cleaned] skulls of thier recent kills . . . How the heck to the outfitters get them cleaned so fast? I just had a boar skull cleaned, which took a good 2-3 months.

It probably sat in your taxidermist freezer for 2.9 of those months.

With bugs it takes 2-3 days depending on how big your bug colony is.

Boil, rot, pressure wash method takes about the same.

First of all, When you take something to your taxidermist do you think your skull is the only thing he has to do, there are other jobs on the plate at that time. How would you like it if I was in the middle of mounting your trophy Kudu or Whitetail and I stopped to clean a skull out just because it doesn't take very long. There is also a drying time in there too.

In a African hunting camp, there are 2 or 3 skinners that do nothing but work on your trophies, on one of my safari's I shot a Baboon at first light, and dropped it off at the skinning shed within the hour. we stooped back to drop off a Zebra late in the afternoon and the baboon skull was already cleaned off, drying with the other skulls! It still needed some work but was pretty much cleaned off.

I figured that they might boil them. Nonetheless, pretty cool.

It's a legitimate question, we had 3 or 4 boys in both camps I hunted in, in Namibia that just cleaned skulls and skinned.