3D Printed Skulls?

[cnelk]

Check this out

3D-Printed Skulls Mean Hunters Don’t Have To Boil Heads To Mount Trophy Antlers

Until 3D printing technology along, hunters would boil an animal’s skinned head for hours making it easier to scrape off the remaining flesh or get a tank…

cowboystatedaily.com

 

[MuleyFever]

Recently a thread with some options.

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Thread 'Replica skulls'

Dec 9, 2025

Does anyone know of a replica skull for euro mounts that looks realistic? The kind you just attach your antlers to. Thanks

• Poeschel
• Replies: 8
• Forum: Meat & Trophy Care

 

[huntnful]

That’s cool. I have a couple actual deer mounts that I wouldn’t mind turning into Euros to open up some wall space. That’d be perfect

 

[cnelk]

Recently a thread with some options.

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Thread 'Replica skulls'

Dec 9, 2025

Does anyone know of a replica skull for euro mounts that looks realistic? The kind you just attach your antlers to. Thanks

• Poeschel
• Replies: 8
• Forum: Meat & Trophy Care

Saw that but no mention of 3D skulls

 

[MuleyFever]

Saw that but no mention of 3D skulls

Yeah the 3 companies suggested in that thread are all printed. Had I thought of it earlier I probably would have just sawed off both my Caribou antlers and made it way easier to get them home. Ill be considering this for my upcoming moose hunt.

 

[Austink47]

I printed this one for a set of sheds and am pretty happy with how it turned out. I just used the cheap white PLA I had on hand. I am sure with a good bone color filament and a little paint it would look good.

https://makerworld.com/models/1809291?appSharePlatform=copy

 

[WCB]

Sheep would be the cool one...Im looking for skulls for the slam. I have a slam set all skull capped 2 I got the sheaths off the skull cap. The other two I will have to cut off and bore out the horn core.

Current good looking ones are $250-$400 per skull or anything cheaper looks like sh!t.

 

[180ls1]

Any updated feedback on this?

Would save some weight on the pack out and hassle with brain matter when crossing state lines.

 

[jjordan355]

I would like to hear some reviews on these as well. Have a whitetail my hound got a hold of and now it’s just a skull cap with antlers on it

 

[180ls1]

I printed this one for a set of sheds and am pretty happy with how it turned out. I just used the cheap white PLA I had on hand. I am sure with a good bone color filament and a little paint it would look good.

https://makerworld.com/models/1809291?appSharePlatform=copy

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I am completely ignorant to 3d printers. What’s one cost that is capable of this? Cost for materials - each skill?

I assume it’s pretty easy to have it do this?

 

[Trapperkid]

My wife printed the one on the wall for my biggest shed I ever found it’s incredibly detailed. Just regular white pla and a creality ender 3.

 

[Austink47]

I am completely ignorant to 3d printers. What’s one cost that is capable of this? Cost for materials - each skill?

I assume it’s pretty easy to have it do this?

It is easy if you get a Bambu labs printer. They are easy to assemble and pretty much plug and play from there. I recommend the A1 printer not the A1 mini. You are looking at something like $5-10 worth of filament per skull.

I am not computer/tech savvy but have figured out enough to be dangerous. We have fun with it, but there are lots of practical applications.

 

[Erict]

There are times when official scoring won't be necessary and cutting off each antler may make transportation easier than skull capping. Is it as simple as taking three measurements to get a close approximation for reattachment to replica skulls? (Tip to tip spread, right tip to nose tip, left tip to nose tip).

 

[BCsteve]

Here’s a moose I did. It’s a deer size moose skull that I printed for a small bull I shot a few years ago. The skull broke when winching it out of a pond and the rack got hung up. It’s perfect for this little rack it makes it look huge! Lol.