Got the horns off the deer.
There aren’t any recorded cases of CWD in Indiana, nor have there ever been any recorded cases of transmission between deer and human, that i know of, but I still didn’t take any chances. I bought a saw blade specific to the purpose, wrapped the head in plastic and clamped in the cheap workmate clone, and when done threw EVERYTHING away.
The Oglet was anxious to experience BRAINS!!! up close and personal, so I made her put on gloves and let her see and touch it.
Now I have a garbage can full of hide, head, bones. Hope the garbageman just dumps it. He’ll wonder, otherwise.
They do around here. More that once I sent out a bag of bones and it was gone in the morning.
The garbagemen are used to that in deer/elk season. Speaking of Elks, check with you local lodge…they might want the hide. If so, pull it out and salt it down, roll it up. Around here they have collection barrels they set out every year.
As a kid in the 60s we always gave our deer and antelope heads and hides to the “old guy down the street.” Nice old guy. I’m not sure what he did with them, but he was always happy to get them. So all our trash men ever found were bones.
One year some kids who lived several blocks away saw the antelope hanging in the garage and asked if they could have the hooves when we butchered them. So we gave them to them. Gave the hooves and forelegs to them for several years. Then one day their Mom shows up at the house and asks my Dad to stop giving her boys those “nasty things” she was sick and tired of finding them scattered all over the back yard.
“But madam, they have the makings of some first-class glue there!”