Show Us How You Display Your African Mounts & Momentos

[Dave Rhoades]

We need some other members to post some pictures here. Come on folks show off your trophies!

Just unwrapped two of four. Can't wait to mount them!

 

[CAustin]

Dave great looking Kudu and Zebra! Share a photo when you get them mounted!

 

[edward]

probably posted this already.

 

[CAustin]

Wow very impressive!

 

[tarbe]

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Just unwrapped two of four. Can't wait to mount them!
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Very cool Dave!

BTW, my son is at Texas A&M Fire Academy right now! Is already a certified EMT and also just completed his Fire Science degree. Starting Paramedic training in September...hopes to follow in your footsteps!


Tim

 

[ActionBob]

Wow very impressive!

Second that!

Edward you are inspiring me. What is the size and weight of the tusks? I'm trying to learn more about the really big game.

Bob

 

[CAustin]

Edward I also would appreciate you telling us about your tusks. How does one judge the weight of tusks?

 

[edward]

bob,austin,judging tusks is a job for pros.some are long and thin,short and thick,somewhere in between.different areas reproduce different sizes.in 2011 my wife and i went to zim on a 10 day elephant hunt.long story short .on the 8th day i got my bull.at 73 then, i had never walked so much in my life.i was told that my tusks were a good representation of what was available in that part of the country.they weighed 43 lbs after drying.to me they are my greatest trophy's,ever!!!!!!!as a side,all my african and north american trophy,s have been taken with handguns.in june of 2014 i took a hippo,sable, and cape buff bull but had to use my double as the local airlines refused to trans port handguns,but all worked out well.

 

[CAustin]

Very nice sir . Those being 43 pounds I would have guessed heavier. They look to be over 40 inches long judging the stand they are on and the safe in the background

 

[bluey]

thanks eddie , I really like what you have had done to his ears,mate .
what is the skin on the floor near your front door from ?

 

[edward]

austin,my tusks had huge nerves that took a lot of room at the lip,according to my ph that accounted for them looking heavier. bluey,the hide is a bison hide.my wife and i love buffalo meat and we try to kill one every other year.

 

[bluey]

austin,my tusks had huge nerves that took a lot of room at the lip,according to my ph that accounted for them looking heavier. bluey,the hide is a bison hide.my wife and i love buffalo meat and we try to kill one every other year.

thanks mate , I thought it may have one of them musk ox - im told that your buffalo are the best meat America has to offer .
matbe one dat I will be fortunate enough to try some .......

 

[hunting4sanity]

Keep posting photos guys. My animals from my safari in March are now at the taxidermist, but I am still trying to decide how to have a couple mounted/displayed. A guy can never have too much taxidermy.

 

[bluey]

do me a favor mate , come over for dinner on sunday evening and explain that to my beloved wife...............

 

[ActionBob]

Keep posting photos guys. My animals from my safari in March are now at the taxidermist, but I am still trying to decide how to have a couple mounted/displayed. A guy can never have too much taxidermy.

do me a favor mate , come over for dinner on sunday evening and explain that to my beloved wife...............

Pull this off and you may be booked for a year.

 

[dory]

You boys dont know how lucky u are . My trophies are banished to the garage now .Im not getting any mounted after my African trip next . They wont last in my shed as the climate is to damp here .

 

[bluey]

You boys dont know how lucky u are . My trophies are banished to the garage now .Im not getting any mounted after my African trip next . They wont last in my shed as the climate is to damp here .

damp, what do you mean , it only rains 11 and 1/2 months a year where you live and then drips off the trees for the rest of the year

 

[dory]

You must have been here in summer the dry season its worse in winter .!

 

[hunting4sanity]

I'm a lucky guy with a great wife, when I shot a giraffe she was the one who said the only place it would be able to fit is right in the front-door entry of the house. She's been talking about some of the things she can move off walls to make room for the mounts, her only stipulation has been that when I go back for safari #2 she wants to go this time.

 

[K-man]

Yes you are very lucky! We have a wall in our house 18 ft tall and 24 ft long without a single thing on it. We laugh about it has never even had a nail in it yet. I always joke that my next wife is going to let me hang taxidermy on it and she replies that my next wife isn't getting the house! But it was her idea to build a trophy room next to the house, so I came out pretty good after all.