Examples of Elk mount with 8ft ceiling limitations

[GunsAreFun]

Can you do something to weather proof a euro Mount? There’s no where in my house for something like this but I could put it under the eave above my garage outside.

It’s north facing with mature oak trees to the west and east. With the trees and house blocking the sun, it would get almost no direct sunlight and only get wet if wind blew rain on it.

 

[cgasner1]

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[Muttman]

We used an old end table/cabinet for pedestal. We got from a thrift store for $5. Put sand bags inside for stability.

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[Brianb3]

Can you do something to weather proof a euro Mount? There’s no where in my house for something like this but I could put it under the eave above my garage outside.

It’s north facing with mature oak trees to the west and east. With the trees and house blocking the sun, it would get almost no direct sunlight and only get wet if wind blew rain on it.

I’m not an expert but I’d say a UV stable polyurethane with a 0-5% side sheen. You can only get it at a Sherwin Williams color shop. NOT Sherwin Williams retail stores. I’m pretty sure Serylac would work. They ship.


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[Ross]

Nice print @Muttman if you can make mount work do it you won’t be sorry I’m partial to the turn and bugle two downstairs in the cave and one upstairs with another to come once I acquire another cape…..

 

[Indian Summer]

If you have a stairwell to the basement, you can put him on the wall over that. Or you can build a pedestal and put him on that in a corner. My uncle and I built this pedestal in one day with about $75 worth of beetle kill pine. It's just over 26" high, 26" wide, and 38" deep, and built it so I could put a regular wall shoulder mount on it. That way the mount can go on a wall or the pedestal.
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This!

 

[GotDraw?]

I have a solution to your 8' ceiling problem:

Take MORE space from your house to create an illusion AND build more storage for your family.

Build a custom, large "light box" type of display:

• With 8' ceilings, no matter where you mount that huge rack, it's gonna look like it is clumsy or taking up a huge amount of room and "protruding" into your living space. Therefore, create an illusion. Take up more space to create visual space and also create storage for the family (everyone needs more closets/book shelves)
• Do a Euro mount
• Figure that your elk euro mount is about 4ft tall and when mounted to the well that it will project out about 18" or so from the wall. Let's also say the antlers are 36" wide for argument sake.
• Visualize mounting the Euro in the middle of a relatively long wall in house (living room, basement/wherever)
• Mount the Euro so the bottom of the nose is about 36-40" off the floor (which is about counter height and the antlers are a couple inches from the ceiling.
• Frame out an 18" deep counter under the mount that is 48" wide so that it is 6" wider on each side of the Euro,
  • Put a black granite top on the counter to provide contrast to the skull
  • Put weathered barn wood behind the Euro from the top of the counter all the way to the ceiling (vertical layout)
  • Put cabinet doors or shelves below the granite counter- to store your bourbon collection or family "stuff"
• Wire up a ceiling light with dimmer above the Euro to illuminate it and also be a soft night light.
• Frame out 18" deep floor to ceiling cabinets on both sides of the Euro, with doors that are about 2' wide. Use hidden push/touch closures so the doors appear as a solid wall on both sides of the Euro.
  • All of the above now puts the Euro a cool light box and gives the family more storage.
• Now- you still have to deal with the remainder of the wall that exists on both sides of the new, protruding closets.
  • Either add more floor to ceiling closets on the full length of the walls on both sides until you reach inside and outside wall corners, or add some book shelves and closets. Must use hidden touch latches for closets so the visual of the wall stays smooth and looks like wall.
  • To add book shelves to either side, frame out/bump out the old walls 6" in front of the existing wall, and install 10" deep library shelves on both sides for all your books, etc. This makes the shelves flush with the new cabinets on either side of the Euro.
  • Tie the corners of the new walls/ or closets to the existing wall inside/outside corners with sheetrock
• When you are finished it will look like the Euro has been recessed into a beautiful custom light box with full wall storage on each side

Hope this helps
JL

 

[sharpbb14]

Here is another option

 

[NDGuy]

I am leaning pedestal, I think I have the corner space and it's a special bull for me.

A 350" bull, my first elk, in my home state...can't beat that.

 

[ElkSnort]

Pedestal mount is probably the best option

I'm having by 332" 6x6 done this way too

 

[Pwells10]

Unfortunately all my shoulder mounts are at my parents due to my house being built in 1942. The whole upstairs is still plaster so every time you drill into the wall, it looks like damn Kyle from across the street drank too much monster energy drinks and threw his fist through my wall lol.

Hopefully by the summer we should be building a new house and have 12’ ceilings to throw all my shoulders up.

im not sure where my life size bear will go during that tome lol

 

[5MilesBack]

I am leaning pedestal, I think I have the corner space and it's a special bull for me.

A 350" bull, my first elk, in my home state...can't beat that.

Just make sure you do some accurate measuring before building your pedestal, so that it will all fit. I have my daughter's bull on a wall and there's only 4" between the ceiling and the tallest point. The bottom of the mount is only 20" above the floor. That would only leave 20" for a pedestal.

 

[Elkfitness]

Here is another option

I like that. Did you make those?


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[NDGuy]

Just make sure you do some accurate measuring before building your pedestal, so that it will all fit. I have my daughter's bull on a wall and there's only 4" between the ceiling and the tallest point. The bottom of the mount is only 20" above the floor. That would only leave 20" for a pedestal.

I am thinking I would do a lower base anyways like a cut down whisky barrel or a octagon/square base.

Couple that with a fencepost or stump to attach the mount, Add some scenery to it, there were a few examples in here and on my hunttalk post that look nice and they all had 8ft ceilings.

 

[doc holiday13]

You could always cut the antlers on a a flat plane and make it look like the antlers are going up into the ceiling

 

[CoStick]

A 350” is much different than the pics shown I believe, I recently saw a shoulder mount 370” and it was massive in tine length and space taken up.

 

[NDGuy]

A 350” is much different than the pics shown I believe, I recently saw a shoulder mount 370” and it was massive in tine length and space taken up.

Yeah he's a big boy for sure, massive body

 

[Vaultman]

Yeah he's a big boy for sure, massive body

Holy Smokes! Nice BULL!!!!

 

[sharpbb14]

I like that. Did you make those?


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I didn't, but they were made by an acquaintance.

 

[NDGuy]

A 350” is much different than the pics shown I believe, I recently saw a shoulder mount 370” and it was massive in tine length and space taken up.

Tell me about it. I am really only considering a pedestal vs Euro if he is coming inside. A shoulder mount would look too wonky.

I could do a shoulder mount in the garage I have 11ft ceilings out there.