To Mount or Not To Mount-Taxidermy

[ianpadron]

Is it the buck in your avatar? Let’s see a pic! Looks like a stud!

No haha a bigger one

Buck in avatar is a 180-ish that is a euro

 

[wapitibob]

Cap the skull, toss the antlers in the back yard for the squirells.

 

[PredatorX]

I too have changed a lot from when I was younger. Personally, I’m not really a fan of taxidermy anymore. Sure I like the traditional old school looking mount to decorate a room especially if it is old and vintage. Like you’d see in an old western bar.
Euro mounts are still cool.

Now I think it is a little bit weird.

I like what Bob says above though. Give back to nature or let the dogs chew on them.

If I ever shoot an animal with a rack so large someone was willing to pay me a lot of money for it I’d sell that rack to them so fast your head would spin.


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[FossilFinder]

I prefer euro mounts for the look and for how they seem to age compared to older shoulder mounts.

I prefer euro mounts so much I even have a euro turkey skull.

 

[buffybr]

I've selectively mounted animals and will continue to do so. When I'm older I look forward to mornings where I wake up with a cup of coffee and reminisce about hunts in a room dedicated to those memories. On some shallow advice, I did temporarily consider not mounting anything, but I course corrected when I realized that we slowly age and its nice to have more than just photos or memories.

That's what I do just about every morning in the Trophy Room that I built and is pictured above.

 

[buffybr]

. . . If I ever shoot an animal with a rack so large someone was willing to pay me a lot of money for it I’d sell that rack to them so fast your head would spin. . .

There are markets here in Montana for antlers. I haven't seen the price is several years, but I think it's around $10/lb.

I have about 30 elk racks and a bunch of deer and antelope racks hanging in the trusses in my garage. I'd rather have them than the $$ that their worth, so I just add to the collection.

I've thought of putting the elk racks on the top of the fence posts around my front yard, but I don't want them to turn white.

 

[cuerro viejo]

Every else goes to the “bug guy” $85 -100 for deer, elk and bears