Your shoulder mounts

[longspeak74]

Couple of mine I'll share

 

[Cady Creek]

A shoulder mount on a buck like that usually prevents the regret you may have from a euro.

 

[IW17]

My only shoulder mount. Not my biggest buck by any means, but it was my first "real" buck. So it had sentimental value.

 

[West.mass.hunter]

A shoulder mount on a buck like that usually prevents the regret you may have from a euro.

That's one hell of a room you've got there. Thanks for sharing

 

[esox621]

Northern Wi

 

[West.mass.hunter]

Northern Wi

Nice buck, thanks for sharing

 

[Bigfeet]

In my opinion, a shoulder mount conveys the size and beauty of an animal much more so than a European or a plaque mount. But, your space, the cost and your personal taste certainly are part of that decision. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks - it only matters what you think (or your spouse/family).

I mount my own deer, which does make the cost not as much of a concern. However, I have mounted quite a few so our house is full (15ish Whitetails, plus others). With so many, a few years ago my wife and I decided any more Whitetail mounts would have to be a truly mature deer, scoring over 160. Within a year or two of that decision I took a mature, non-typical buck that scores in the mid 150's. He was a beautiful gray muzzled old deer, but I didn't mount him. I did put him on a plaque and hung it up beside other bucks in the same size class. To me, the plaque just doesn't capture what that deer was and I do regret not having done him. Since then I have mounted another buck (smaller than him) and plan to mount the deer (a mid 150's heavy forest deer) I took this past fall. For myself, a shoulder mount keeps alive the memory of that deer and the experience I had.