I really wanted to hunt elephant, and after seeing many videos I decided on a tuskless hunt in Zimbabwe for 2009 with my hunting partner. I just could not swing the hunt and trophy fees for a big bull, so creative thinking was required to get the wife to look forward to my trophy when it arrived. The mind started wandering in all sorts of directions.

I had Andy Hunter in Harare send all the hide off for tanning, and had two panels done in gray and two in brown. It came out really nice. We decided to do something special for my trophy room.

I think the project came out pretty good, and my upholsterer did a great job. He even managed to incorporate the CITES export tag into the ottoman for me. Not many of these seen I bet. Still have plenty of scraps for small trinkets also.





Hope you enjoy and it gives you smoe ideas of your own.

Very creative! Plus, it looks comfortable!

Interesting. I did not know that you could get an export tag for a tuskless. What was the upcharge for CITES?

Beautiful!

Congrats it looks Beautiful!!!

Thats a great idea!!!

Thats one of a kind trophy.

Congrats.

They used a tuskless as one of their export quota animals?

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Must have, I really didn't think about it. Charged $100 for CITES export out of Zim on my fees, all paperwork completed properly and an individual tag on each ear, piece of leather, and the tail.

Next project will be to have a painting on an ear.

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Originally posted by Slider:
Congrats it looks Beautiful!!!

+1

Now that is great -- may have to do the same thing ---or close to it
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Very nice!

Blank, I love it...Mike

Great idea and should never wear out.

Wow, that's really cool! I too didn't know you could export a tuskless. I figured people might laugh if I got a reproduction mount of a tuskless elephant.

I shot a tuskless in Chewore North and it was exportable. I took the ears and had a painting done on one of them. I am not sure why some tuskless hunts are exportable and some are not. Does anyone know?



The artist was Belinda Marshal who I contracted through Taxidermy Enterprises out of Bulawayo. The girl was from a photo I took from a hunt in Mozambique.

that is way cool Blank!!
I might have to copy your idea! --going on a tuskless in Nov, 2011

I like it guy!

You already got your trophies home? I haven't heard a peep out of HHK???? Go figure......kinda like my hunt.....

Jim: Sorry to say, your hunt was really not what you expected/hoped for and sucked big time. As for trophies, Paul got all of his stuff back at Thanksgiving and mine came thru about 6 weeks later (because of tanning, and I got caught in XMas holiday traffic). My bushbuck should be done pretty soon.

We used Andy Hunter in Harare (Chipitani) and he was fantastic. Talked to him at Reno and we got along great. You might try talking to him, and see if he could help out on his end.

Good luck. Please tell Shelly Hi! from both of us here.

For those of you wondering about how much leather you will have from your trophy, here are just two of the four panels I had tanned. There is an awful lot of it, as you can see, and you can have many projects covered.