Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. 3D printing is making the dirty business of mounting an animal’s skull over the mantle a bit less gory.  A growing number of hunting enthusiasts and several companies are taking the fabrication principles used to make everything from lamp shades to advanced medical equipment and applying it to deer and other “trophy” animals. Once the skulls are 3D printed, a hunter or collector can then take their real antlers or horns and slip them pre-made holes. The end product looks pretty close to the real thing, but cuts out the need for hours of intensive, bloody cleaning or an appointment with an expensive taxidermist. Printing heads separately also opens up mounting options for shed hunters who collect naturally discarded antlers, but do not want to kill an animal. Though the space is mostly made up of individual creators, Utah-based Bucks N Bull Skulls  currently sells an assortment of 3D-printed deer, elk, and caribou skulls ranging from $50 to $150. Bucks N …