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Never seen one like this before  | ||
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Can't say that one does much for me. | |||
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Interesting, but not my cup of tea. It looks like a raw cape with the head not yet skinned out. DRSS | |||
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Wow! I like it. ~Ann   | |||
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How very European. Enough said. | |||
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I like it too. It would be perfect in the right place, but probably wouldn't look too good along side a lot of traditional mounts. Best regards, D. Nelson | |||
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SUPERB!!! I like things that are a bit unique... Anymore photos/angle of that piece? | |||
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Its definitely 'artsy' but I rather like it. The key to this is where you put it and what pieces you surround it with to make it flow in your trophy room. | |||
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Too feminine looking. Looks like a chic wrapping herself up in a fur coat. It's a LDE BULL! He's suppose to look majestic! OK ladies, take your best shots, been married 34 yrs., I can take it. LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show. Not all who wander are lost. NEVER TRUST A FART!!! Cecil Leonard | |||
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Bwana Cecil; You already know better!  | |||
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Not the 1st 1 I've dug. LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show. Not all who wander are lost. NEVER TRUST A FART!!! Cecil Leonard | |||
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Not to my taste, but even if it were it does not do an animal like the LDE justice. Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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I'd need to see it from a few different angles to be sure, but I think it is beautiful...not traditional, and certainly not appropriate for a trophy room, but as a single piece in the correct location it could be magnificent. I'm starting to envision other species given a similar treatment. I can see a Gemsbok or Zebra done that way very effectively. | |||
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I would have to say that while it is unique and interesting and I don't hate this, I just like a traditional mount so much better. The board it is mounted on just looks like a board. I think a shape of Africa of just a more organic shape in general would be more pleasing. A full skin rug with a mounted head hanging on the wall would be better too in my opinion and would show of the size of the animal. To me, the best memory of a hunt is right before the shot, when the animal is alive in all its glory. This reminds me of a caped out head before it goes into the salt. Interesting and a neat part of a hunt...but nothing like the moment before the shot. | |||
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+1 reminds me of a picture taken in the skinning shed. Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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A full shoulder mount on a big Eland takes a great deal of room to mount on the wall,,, this type of mount might be the only option for someone with a limited space to display,,my first thought,, good idea on a one horned trophy,,,,,,then ,,, although not for me,, not a bad option you can make more money, you can not make more time | |||
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Not what I'd want in my trophy room, but in the right office, it would be very classy. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Not done to my taste........ | |||
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Not my cup of Tea. | |||
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That could be the most horrific waste of one of the most beautiful animals in Africa I've ever seen. Jerry Huffaker State, National and World Champion Taxidermist | |||
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X2 Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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This reminds me of Picaso's paintings! Absolutely HORRIBLE as far as I am concerned, but, others seem to like them. Anything which does not display the animal to its best, is not to my taste. But, I suppose who is to say what is best? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder ha? Funny how the ladies on this forum like this mount - just goes to show why I am not a woman I suppose  | |||
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I reckon it is a unicorn caught up in one of those old fashioned washing wringers. It was such a fight that even a plastic palm tree and the ironing board got wrapped up too.   | |||
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Looks a bit like road kill... | |||
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I do not like that mount. Imagine taking one of the premiere african animals, including any of the big five, and then mounting it like that. LDE is a hunt that very few of us will ever get to experience, let alone do more than once, so why degrade the mount like this, compared to how a proper shoulder mount would display such a majestic animal. | |||
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That's just spooky. | |||
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In a word...NO Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Not for this African Hunter either. Spending that kind of money on that kind of hunt would have resulted in a different mount for my house! | |||
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Jerry Huffaker...master of the obvious. Totally agree. Yuck. | |||
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I just compared it to my Derby mount and I do not regret my choice of mount design at all. I'm thankful for that because its not like a buffalo, I don't think I have another Derby Eland hunt left in me. | |||
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In addition to liking the above, I am also the guy who would rug a leopard and lion or skull mount a buffalo. Sometimes elegant is simple. | |||
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and sometimes simple is butt-ugly. and would you take a leopard rug mount, turn it on its side, throw in a fake palm frond and window frame,then wrinkle up the remaining hide?? Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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I have no problem with doing a leopard rug, and I have a couple buffalo skulls that I display that way, but I think it is a shame to do that LDE the way it is shown. The good thing is, my opinion on this one doesn't matter. As long as its owner likes it, that's all that matters. However, I'd never do an animal like that. | |||
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I would like to meet one who got a full size leopard say, "Gee, I wish I would have rugged it..." I can see it with a bear, but a leopard?? | |||
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I would also do a simple horn mount on rhino (and hang my binos from it). I am a firm believer in understatement.  | |||
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Well, I will stick to my original supposition: I don't think I will ever meet anyone who did do a full mount on a leopard and regretted it. I don't shoulder mount everything I shoot; I don't even mount the buffalo skulls on a plaque - they are either sitting on the floor of my TR or on top of the bookshelf/rifle display. | |||
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tendrams - I am also a believer in understatement and simple elegance, and all of the mounts you mentioned I could easily live with (rugged leopard or lion, buffalo skull mount, rhino horn coat hook). I think there's a big difference between a rugged leopard or lion, and a rugged LDE cape and head stuck on a rectangular board. A rugged lion or leopard has a classic, vintage look to it. This mount has no redeeming qualities - it just looks dead. It would be a tremendous waste to mount a cape eland this way, but a LDE? This obvious attempt at trying to be "artistic" is a huge failure on every level. Just my opinion. | |||
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This mount has no redeeming qualities - it just looks dead. It would be a tremendous waste to mount a cape eland this way, but a LDE? This obvious attempt at trying to be "artistic" is a huge failure on every level. Just my opinion. Don't hold back Molepolole. Tell us how you really feel. LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show. Not all who wander are lost. NEVER TRUST A FART!!! Cecil Leonard | |||
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Salvador Dali ?  Different , but not quite my thing . Scriptus. I thought perhaps a unicorn caught in one of our tornadoes. Elton Rambin Mail/Ship: 1802 Horse Hollow Rd. Barksdale, Texas 78828 Phone: 479 461 3656 Ranch: 830-234-4366 Check our Hunt & Class Schedule at www.ftwoutfitters.com 4 Rules of Gun Safety 1/ Treat all guns as though they are loaded. 2/ Never point the muzzle at anything you do not want to shoot. 3/ Do not put your finger on trigger until your sights are on target and you are ready to shoot. 4/ Be sure of your target and safe background. | |||
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