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Just got a call from the taxidermist, and my buffalo mount from 2004 is finally ready to come home!! I'm on the way to pick it up as soon as I finish this post. The Easter Bunny has been good to me !!!!!! | ||
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Be careful on the way to your taxidermist....that easter bunny didn't fare so well after leaving your place.  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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1115: Can I please, pretty please, come see it tomorrow after I miss a turkey in the morning? JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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Hwy Dale! when's the "unveiling" going to be???? jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Haven't set a date yet, but will include you and your lovely wife when I do. Gotta get some biltong, some dried voss etc, and some Ms Ball's Chutney. Also a couple of bottles of Pinotage. Then we will be ready. | |||
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I just downloaded this picture. This is what he looks like on the wall with some of my other African trophies. Granted, none of them are super trophies, but the memories I have of friends, well placed shots, and African make them qualify at the top of my personal record book.  | |||
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That's bs. All are wonderful reminders of a time you spent loving, learning and chasing these magnificent beasts. All are beautiful reminders of amazing experiences that you are truly lucky to have. | |||
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1115 is somewhat modest. The picture doesn't do justice. The Blue Wildebeest is more than 30 inches with ivory tips, the Black is SCI gold and I haven't measured the buff (even though I was with him when he shot it) but it will score just fine, too... I do agree with him and above posters, though. The memories that the trophies bring are just part of a trilogy of anticipation, hunting and remembering. The remembering lasts the longest and to me, is the sweetest. 1115, I have an 8x10 glossy to put under the buffalo if you want it! JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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Congratulations 1115. It's always nice to get a call saying your mounts are done. I'm still waiting to get a couple mounts back. ____________________________ If you died tomorrow, what would you have done today ... 2018 Zimbabwe - Tuskless w/ Nengasha Safaris 2011 Mozambique - Buffalo w/ Mashambanzou Safaris | |||
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Great look'n Buff! congrats! 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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Looks great! Congratulations, and many fine memories. Don_G ...from Texas, by way of Mason, Ohio and Aurora, Colorado! | |||
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We'll be ready! replete with african garb, "the" hot sauce we brought back from Zim and I'm sure the wife will conjure up some african dish to bring also in addition to a good Cape Wine. BTW, she says we should start a new tradition, much like MCguire's Irish Pub in Pensacola; All visitors are required to kiss the bull AND the host. I'll let her do that......jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Thats a great room 1115 - if you didn't know different you would think it was in a home in Africa. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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1115 ----- Great display of trophys and many thanks for the idea of placing the pictures underneath the mounts, I will start on my handful of African stuff immediately. Be sure to keep a tight rope on "the Judge" at the celebration, we want you guys to survive this Brew Ha Ha, or Scotch Ha Ha, or Bourbon Ha Ha, well you get my drift.  Good shooting.phurley | |||
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Dale, Very nice...I am down to 14 weeks till the Selous..The buf and where he came from makes me anxious... Mike | |||
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They look pretty good to me. And trophies are one place where to me "size does not matter"! If the hunt was good that is all that matters. Nice trophy wall. | |||
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Excellent mount and a terrific trophy room! If you don't mind me asking how did you secure it to the wall? I've got some african animals on my wall (including a buffalo) and I've never had any problems with them, but I sometimes wonder if some day they may fall off the wall. Thanks. | |||
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Mike, Actually this one came from Zim in 2004. This one I got in the Selous last year had a slightly smaller body, but bigger horns. TRL, My walls are cypress paneled, and I ran a half inch lag bolt two inches long through the paneling into a firestop between two studs. It seems to be holding fine, but I will check it daily for a week or two just to make sure. | |||
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Thanks. That was very helpful. | |||
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