With the deer season over and temperatures perfect for hanging and aging venison, local hunters soon will be deciding what to do with their bucks' antlers. It's a disrespectful waste to just discard a ...

Here's a new way to mount the rack from that trophy buck you shot last fall or the matching set of shed antlers you found while traipsing through the woods. Skull Hooker, an Oregon-based company that ...

Reader warning: The above video contains graphic content. Anthony Petrosino, an electrician for most of his life, got into the European skull mount business about five years ago. His business, West ...

Steve Stahl climbed up the thin ladder to the second story of his two-car garage and then walked into a specially built room where his dermestid (flesh-eating) beetles are kept. He lifted a screen off ...

They’re cool looking, take up less space than a shoulder mount and cost a fraction of more traditional taxidermy work. As a result, European mounts are growing in popularity with deer hunters as a way ...

DEER LODGE — Frank Slaughtner and his son, JR, of Deer Lodge are avid hunters and over the years had a number of European trophy mounts done. In 2004, they purchased a starter colony of dermestid ...

Following directions on the Quick White to make the paste, I brushed the entire skull with the mixture, wearing rubber gloves as I did. I was a little unsure of the outcome during the process, because ...

Justin Graber in his shop north of Newton, Graber Skulls. He uses millions of dermestid beetles to clean away tissue before the skull is bleached and polished making what is called a European mount.

When a Caledonia man found a dead buck on the side of a road, it didn't seem all that special, but when he began cleaning the skull to mount it, he discovered something very unusual. "This one was hit ...

Deer antlers and mounts are popular for home decorations; but in Oklahoma there are strict wildlife laws that keep people from selling them, even if the deer had been harvested legally. A former ...