Stop my wife from having my critters mounted

[wind gypsy]

Not salvaging a cape is much easier than salvaging a cape.

 

[whoami-72]

Haha thanks for the humor guys. This is exactly the kind of laugh I was thinking I'd get

 

[whoami-72]

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.

Ha, I tried last year. She thinks they look gross and would rather just not have anything.

 

[whoami-72]

Guys, 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.

Haha you are hilarious. But yeah, in general I stay out of the way lol

 

[whoami-72]

I really want one of those squirrel riding a rattlesnake mounts for my office.

Dude, please send a picture. I just ran into a 5' long rattler and would have killed it if I knew this was possible.

 

[whoami-72]

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.

Huh, never knew piebald deer existed. That's gonna suck a few hours of reading time.

 

[Mike 338]

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.

An affair should do it.

 

[Rusty Shackelford]

Dude, please send a picture. I just ran into a 5' long rattler and would have killed it if I knew this was possible.

 

[Q child]

Haha. Good problem to have. Just kill something bigger next time, and move the smaller animal to a less prominent spot. That way she can have her fun, and you can continually be looking at your nicest animal.
Don't worry about the antler size anyway, your first mule deer is worthy of memorialization even if it were a fork-n-horn. A 4x3 is very respectable. Congratulations. And good luck on your elk hunt.

 

[CMP70306]

Huh, never knew piebald deer existed. That's gonna suck a few hours of reading time.

Here’s some of the ones we got on camera.

 

[TripleJ]

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That's amazing!

 

[whoami-72]

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Next rattle snake I find, this is happening.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

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.

 

[whoami-72]

Here’s some of the ones we got on camera.
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Huh, that's fascinating.

 

[7LRM]

You at lucky man, my ex wife, there is no no gun, don’t even think about having it mounted. My wife now loves my Ram ont he wall and I am looking for more to be mounted and hang on the wall.

 

[Swamp Fox]

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.

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.

My mother had just passed, and this was the first hunting I'd done since the funeral.

I took it as a sign ---of something; I know not what---and spent too much money for a mount. One of my little buddies the "barn cats" chewed on one ear overnight before I got it out of the Bronco and into the house.

But it is one of my favorite mounts, and I consider it an investment worth more than it seems.

 

[CMP70306]

Huh, that's fascinating.

Yeah we never had them in 40 years of hunting this area until we had a doe a few years ago with a couple white marks on her legs below the knees. Now in the last two years they have expanded and we’ve had a half dozen or more of them pop up now. Haven’t heard of anybody killing one so it will be interesting to see how prevalent they will become.

 

[Forestryguy]

Don't pack the antlers out, if legal. She can come carry them out if it doesn't meet your standards.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I would have to say she's a keeper.

 

[doc holiday13]

don't stop her. she's having fun. next time she says she wants to mount something, tell her she's gonna get mounted....