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Post by Sandbur on Jan 9, 2021 13:21:00 GMT -6
How many are enough?
What happens to them when you die or move to a nursing home/ assisted living?
We have 4 in the house and 2/4 stay in the basement.
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Post by biglakebass on Jan 9, 2021 13:35:50 GMT -6
Will them to SD.  |
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Post by Reagan on Jan 9, 2021 13:37:22 GMT -6
I won’t mount another animal. European skull done DIY is the most I’ll do.
At my cabin I have 3 whitetail mounts. Two were killed by my uncle who built the place. I leave them as decor. 1 is mine. There is also a pronghorn and some small game none killed by me.
I have a 2 year old 10 pt I killed 30 years ago hanging in my man cave at home. It will never see a wall anywhere else. My wife prefers no dead animal display in our home.
Eventually they become trash and will be discarded like most of the stuff we accumulate through life.
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Post by Sandbur on Jan 9, 2021 13:54:15 GMT -6
I won’t mount another animal. European skull done DIY is the most I’ll do. At my cabin I have 3 whitetail mounts. Two were killed by my uncle who built the place. I leave them as decor. 1 is mine. There is also a pronghorn and some small game none killed by me. I have a 2 year old 10 pt I killed 30 years ago hanging in my man cave at home. It will never see a wall anywhere else. My wife prefers no dead animal display in our home. Eventually they become trash and will be discarded like most of the stuff we accumulate through life. One of our mounts is my Dad’s largest buck from the late ‘40’s. My wife is Ok with two upstairs as she also likes to hunt. We also have plenty of Euro mounts and some fish mounts in a back room in the basement. |
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Post by Reagan on Jan 9, 2021 15:21:24 GMT -6
Dads last buck skull is hanging in a tree at my cabin for the last 15 months. This year he asked what is the point of killing a buck when that’s what you do with the skull. I pointed out how an encounter with a big one always leads to the shakes. That’s why. He ended up agreeing. He has no desire to hang anything in his house anymore. When they sold their place he left his mule deer mount with the house.
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Post by dpx2 on Jan 9, 2021 15:37:09 GMT -6
I have them in the basement, since it is the only place in the house they are "allowed"....
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Post by Catscratch on Jan 9, 2021 15:38:00 GMT -6
Cherished, sold, or thrown away. I assume nothing I own or collect is important to anyone else so probably thrown away.
I always said I wouldn't mount a deer unless it was a giant. Decided to go ahead and mount this year's deer (don't know why). It will be my first and maybe only. What happens to it after my death wasn't be part of the process.
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Post by kooch on Jan 9, 2021 15:59:21 GMT -6
Racks on plaques here. No mounts.
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Post by caveman on Jan 9, 2021 16:01:48 GMT -6
I do not have any head mounts, and have only shot one buck that most anyone would consider having mounted. For me, none is enough. No worries about what to do with them when I am gone. My European mount seems to be desired and I think will find a home that wants it after I pass.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jan 9, 2021 16:35:44 GMT -6
My asshole neighbor in MN through out his dads 160" buck when the old man died. He killed it at 88 years old. Told me the story about it 5 times a year when I stopped over. The fucking kid through it out in the dump in his woods. I went and picked it out of there and brought it home. Its in my garage. Could not believe that kid did that.
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Post by sd51555 on Jan 9, 2021 17:03:31 GMT -6
When I was home last weekend, I picked up my shoulder mount from a buck I got in high school. Now it'll be on the floor in my place until I haul it up north and put it somewhere on the wall.
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Post by badgerfowl on Jan 9, 2021 17:23:12 GMT -6
I have them in the basement, since it is the only place in the house they are "allowed".... Get out of that toxic relationship ASAP.  |
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Post by smsmith on Jan 9, 2021 18:53:26 GMT -6
I've got 5 head mounts on the walls and one pedestal mount. There's another head mount in the making at the taxidermist. I'd like to shoot maybe 4 or 5 more bucks worth having mounted.
What will happen to them? Either get sold for $5-$10 to somebody at the auction, or throw them in the rolloff when we move to FL or when I'm dead.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jan 9, 2021 22:16:10 GMT -6
I've got 5 head mounts on the walls and one pedestal mount. There's another head mount in the making at the taxidermist. I'd like to shoot maybe 4 or 5 more bucks worth having mounted. What will happen to them? Either get sold for $5-$10 to somebody at the auction, or throw them in the rolloff when we move to FL or when I'm dead. I brought a few with to Zona. Hope to bring more if she lets me...... |
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Post by smsmith on Jan 9, 2021 22:22:06 GMT -6
^^^I have already talked with my wife about the "ifs" in regards to a FL move. If we move down there, we're taking next to nothing from here. Sell everything from here and buy everything new down there. Our house here is pretty much "lodge look". Pine trim, rustic hickory cabinets throughout, deer heads, fish mounts, log furniture, earth tone paint/flooring, wildlife art, etc. etc. etc.
None of that has any place in a FL coastal home.
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