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My taxidermist needs a bongo cape to replace the bug eaten cape on a clients bongo (long story). His usual sources for capes and skins have been a dead end. I promised him I'd post a request for info here. Any suggestions? | ||
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Send me to the Cameroon.  | |||
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What about this link posted in the taxidermy section? Graybird "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning." | |||
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I'm thinking that one might be hard to come up with. Good luck. Mike NEVER BOOK A HUNT WITH JEFF BLAIR AT BLAIR WORLDWIDE HUNTING! | |||
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good luck, it's gonna be expensive!!! LostHorizonsOutfitters.com ---------------------------- "You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas" Davy Crockett 1835 ---------------------------- | |||
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There is a full body bongo skin listed for sale in the taxidermy section. You can do a full body mount! | |||
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Keith Atcheson has the lifesize listed in the Taxidermy forum. Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Yikes...that's going to cost a bit. What a pity to lose a bongo skin of all things. _______________________________  | |||
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I don't know the whole story on what happened to the original cape, only that the mounted head was lost in shipment by Air France for FIVE YEARS! Now it does not have one folicle of hair left on it. It looks like something out of a zombie horror movie. | |||
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have him check out the hair transplant adds on TV  It'll probably be cheaper    | |||
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Ask the french taxidermist Michel Vaillier Michel Vaillier taxidermie He is processing more than one bongo per year and visit Cameroon every year. He should have one or he can ask his connections. good luck J B de Runz Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent | |||
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Gahunter I called Michel Vaillier. Yet he has no bongo's cape. He's just back from Africa, the bongo's season will be in full in June. He'll ask outfitters and contacts. Outfitters can provide capes from hunters who want only the massacre (bone). Contacts are another story : if by the grapevine a decent premium is offered for a bongo's cape, count on the locals to have a cape shown up. How the bongo died is anybody's guess. good luck J B de Runz Be careful when blindly following the masses ... generally the "m" is silent | |||
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Where was it stored to have been so bug eaten? I have a bunch of trophies in storage in northern MN and I check them twice per year. So far, they look great. I do have them wrapped in bubble wrap, however. | |||
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I actually don't know the details of how it ended up in the condition it's in. Surfice it to say it looks like something out of a horror movie. I'm not the end user of the skin. I just promised my taxidermist that I would post a request on this forum. So far, we have one very promising lead for a full skin at around four grand. As of last week, the client had not said "yea" or "nay." I personally don't think he is going to find one any cheaper. | |||
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I would also be surprised if he got a full skin for less than $4,000 and if he could find a cape, $2,500. You very seldom see them for sale. | |||
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