wind gypsy
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Not salvaging a cape is much easier than salvaging a cape.
Ha, I tried last year. She thinks they look gross and would rather just not have anything.Introduce her to European mounts. If something I shoot has horns or antlers, I am expected to bring those home for the euro mount, no matter the size.
Haha you are hilarious. But yeah, in general I stay out of the way lolGuys, OP is humble-bragging here. He has a cool wife! Evidence:
1) she's capable of changing her mind
2) she budgets before she buys
3) she's cool with dead shit in the family room
4) she has a sense of humor
On the off-chance my wife ever developed these skills I'd keep my mouth shut and stay out of the way.
Dude, please send a picture. I just ran into a 5' long rattler and would have killed it if I knew this was possible.I really want one of those squirrel riding a rattlesnake mounts for my office.
Huh, never knew piebald deer existed. That's gonna suck a few hours of reading time.My new wife was fine with the flying pheasant, bear skull & rug, whitetail euro & shoulder mounts, bison skull and bison shoulder mount but apparently I have been informed that a full sized piebald buck is a bridge to far.
Which is a shame as we are now up to 7 piebald deer with more each year so there is an increasing possibility that it may happen.
An affair should do it.When we were dating, she said she'd never have animal heads hanging on the walls unless it's at a cabin. Last year I shot my first mule deer buck and she thought he "looked cute". She decided to get a measly little 4x3 mounted and already named him Wilbur and he's not even back from the taxidermist yet.
This year, I'm specifically targeting a bull elk for the first time and she's already dedicated a budget to mounting it and priced out a bear rug in case i see a bear. I told her tonight we're only mounting the elk if it's a 6x6 or maybe a giant 5x5 or better. She then said, "well, we will see if he's cute and if I want to name him but a 3x3 would be big right?" How do I get her to stop trying to get every critter I shoot mounted? LOL.
The only good news, I can hang them wherever I want including above the living room TV.
That's amazing!
Next rattle snake I find, this is happening.
Huh, that's fascinating.Here’s some of the ones we got on camera.
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I barked a squirrel DRT without meaning to, apparently, because there was not a mark on him and I was head-shooting with what I call my raygun and he dropped like a stone.I'd let her have her way. My wife had a bass mounted for me one time. That was cool.
My brother is a taxidermist and does a lot of squirrels for a guy in Kansas City I think. There's some kind of weird fascination right now with having a mounted squirrel in the house. I have one that we put in our Christmas tree every year that he did. It freaks the living crap out of some people. Kinda like Christmas Vacation.
Huh, that's fascinating.