>If I were going to extract a brain, I would go to a carpentry shop and
>saw the top of the skull off the bottom, then lift it off like a
>candy-jar lid.
I'd take to the site a sledge hammer and an old sheet in a wheel barrow.
Drape the sheet over the deer's head to avoid bits and pieces hitting me,
then "wham." Haul the whole thing home in the wheelbarrow.
Kath