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I'm not to kicked on what I've seen on head shoulder mount of eland..I plan on doing that with kudu if lucky,but I was wondering if anyone has ever done european bleeched skull on eland? Would you keep entire skull or just top? | ||
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Be careful with AFRICAN done Euro mounts I did that once on a trip to RSA. what I got back in about 11 months were some really really over bleached skulls. so much so that the bone became brittle. 2 of the mounts had horns broke from the skull and I wound up taking the entire mess to my stateside taxidermist an having him make "skull caps" for the mounts wrap them in leather and remount them. If I was to do it again I'd have just the skull caps cut out horns removed then the horns sent back (some horns can't be removed, I'm told cause of their shapes ie. Spiral horns,etc.) then back home have the taxi do them like I mentioned earlier. You should have at least 1 nice shoulder mount from the hunt though. IMHO | |||
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I've seen them done both ways & would probably go skull cap. LIFE IS NOT A SPECTATOR'S SPORT! | |||
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I had to make the same decision a few months ago. Because of limited finances I used to mount all my trophies as skullmounts and if properly done they always look good. If you have your trophies send back home to have them done there, they are going to leave the country bleached in anyway, by law. Game like Impala, Hartebeest, Wildebeest with bend horns, the horns do not come off, but spiral, straight and slightly bend horns all comes off. With dip and ship the skulls have to bleached by a local taxidermist or someone who prepares them for shipment, so the trick is to have the outfitter only clean the skulls so much as is required to transport them from camp.This way the skulls are not overbleached and stay intact. After I had my first shouldermount done I felt sorry that I did not have the others mounted in that way too. I now rather take time and save untill I can afford it. a Fine old trophy like the eland that I had to decide on, is just worth it and if it is done by people that knows how, there is now way that a skullmount comes to it. | |||
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Charger, Here's an eland euro/skull mount:  and as I promissed a few days ago, a gemsbok skull and shoulder mount:  In retrospect, I might have had the skulls cut off a bit, to make them more slender, and not stick out as far from the wall. As you can see, it is only the lower jaw that is not there as they are now. The gemsbok is also turned a bit too much to the left IMO (but it's not my shoulder mount), although this works with this particular narrow staircase. | |||
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Gemsbok facial markings really deserve a shoulder or pedastal mount. | |||
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I agree with Nitro that a Gemsbok really warrants a shoulder mount. I think a skull mount eland looks really nice and takes up a whole lot less space than the shoulder mount. Best, JohnTheGreek | |||
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Given the cost difference is so little in European mounts between here and Africa,,,I would not have them done there and have them done here and then you can talk over live with your taxidermist. Mike Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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"and to John the Greek...a liberal is a person who feels compelled to right all the inequities in society with someone else's money...and funny, I have never met a liberal victim. " -Mike Dettorre Interesting. I think you may be right on a domestic level. I guess that means that Bush is simply a global liberal by your definition? Let's see...tax break to the rich, increase spending to target inequality and injustice abroad? Spending other people's money for sure!  I will confine further rants to the political forum. LOL! Best, JohnTheGreek | |||
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Here's a picture of an old cow I shot up at Camp Cooley Ranch on one of our DRSS hunts. I'm taking it to work and hang it over my desk.  Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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I like the european skull mounts, thats about all I have done anymore, rather spend the money on something else...besides my wife has informed me that she is selling all my stuff in my obituary colum when I croak if I beat her to it.... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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In that case Ray, I hope you make it to your 205th B'day.  Hog Killer IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!! ------------------------------------ We Band of Bubbas & STC Hunting Club, The Whomper Club | |||
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I have three eland done in the fashion that you see in Nitro's photo and they look very good.I had them done in Namibia with Reiser's Taxidermy.It slows the trophy shipment almost none as compared to just dip and pack,cost half what it would to get the same thing done here,and adds almost nothing to the cost of shipping.I guess the weight of the plaque is the only difference. I have been very satisfied with the quality of the work. We seldom get to choose But I've seen them go both ways And I would rather go out in a blaze of glory Than to slowly rot away! | |||
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