I received my Lion recently from Life-form Taxidermy. About 15 months from the time I left it until I received it. Delay was waiting for some minor plains game to arrive and get the export permits issued. Otherwise I would have had it much sooner. Not a problem. Huge crate over 9 feet long. Very well crated. I shipped Ocean Cargo and it still cost me nearly $2,800. Work was outstanding. They did a great job on the base and an unbelievable job on repairing a large silver dollar size exit hole in his right upper mandible. One of my parting shots took him behind the left shoulder, penetrating the lower skull, breaking the lower right mandible and deflecting upward and exiting the whisker area of his upper jowl. I was shocked when I saw the size of the hole, but I am here to tell you all they patched it so well, you cannot see any sign of it. I'm a big fan of US Taxidermy as I spent 17 years in the profession, but I give high marks to Life-form on all aspects of dealing with them and their finished product. Kudo's to Cecil, Jerry and Sharon. Sharon was an absolute pleasure to work with. She never failed to reply to any questions, requests or information. They are definately big cat professionals.
Regards,
David

Holy smokes, that's a beauty! Mine was mounted by Life Form as well and they are great taxidermists. My leopard is going to be mounted by them as well. Congratulations!

I saw that Lion in the packing department a few weeks ago, and as is usual with Lifeform's work, it's stunning. - In fact, the picture doesn't really do it justice.

Nice, nice, nice!!

John

What an awesome addition to any trophy room! Beautiful!!!

I would love to see some pictures when it finds its home...

A once in a lifetime trophy, truly splendid. Would you look at that mane! Congratulations David, you make us all envious.

Dave

Dave,

I've long ago decided that I never ever want anything to do with any lion hunt. The reason is a long story, but I've stuck to my decision so far. But looking at yours makes me want to seriously reconsider that decision! What a beautiful specimen! That is what a lion should look like!

Congratulations!

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

Nice Cat! If you have trouble finding a place to put it, let me know--I have the perfect place in my house. Congrats!

Where did you shoot this lion(area) and who was the HO and Ph

its a nice cat

Wow! Considering that photos of tasxidermy rarely do it justice, I can not imagine how this could look any better.

That is one of the most beautiful Lions I have ever seen.

Impressive... I've always had great service and excellent work done by Life Form!

That is one awesome trophy!!!

I hope to hunt a lion someday and if it resembles yours, it would be incredible
that is one of the best lions I have seen in some time!

way to go!

Excellent job by the taxidermist on an amazing lion!

Thanks for the compliments everyone, Life-form is due it all. I took some pics when we unpacked the crate but I haven't uploaded them yet. Due to the logistics getting my recent Leopard from Zim to Mpumalanga, RSA, I'm shipping it home, then onto the tannery, then The Artistry of Wildlife. Dennis does excellent cat work. The hunt report was posted last June with the details. As a side note: I was specific with my desires and all were met to the letter. I did run my hands through his mane once in my home as it wasn't laid back when I shot him. It isn't now either.
LDK

Excellent taxidermy work. One of the most awesome mounts I have ever seen.

Damn! Now, that's a lion!
Congratulations!

David....a very fine trophy and a beautiful mount....you are to be congratulated!

Gary
DRSS
NRA Lifer
SCI
DSC

Thank you again my friends, I appreciate your kind comments. I forwarded these compliments on to Sharon at Life Form (all names withheld for privacy concerns) and thanked them again for a fine job.
Good hunting,
David

Do you have a link to the story?? Couldnt find it in the hunt reports??

Thanks
MG

Oh man, yet another gorgeous lion! UEG, you have some serious compettion there sir! I love the pose! jorge

I know jorge. What I would like to see is both of those lions together in a display. Wow!

LD outstanding cat.... IF I could be half that lucky...


Mike

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
I know jorge. What I would like to see is both of those lions together in a display. Wow!

Tht would be cool. Both are magnificent lions! Yours is more "regal" in my opinion. It just exudes power & majesty while David's is more "threatening" make sense? jorge

All I can say is WOW!

Awesome.......someday, someday!

Beautiful cat. If I was told I could only hunt one more animal before I died, it would definitely be a Lion. Hopefully one like yours.

That is a great Lion, what area did you take him in? Who was the PH?

jorge: Makes sense! Thanks my friend.

Was this a "canned" lion hunt? From the looks of the mane, and the fact it was shot in RSA, I think it might have been.

A lot of people object to that. I'm not sure I do. Any other type of lion hunt is getting prohibitively expensive and, as was pointed out in the hunting rerport, the lion was stalked on its own ground with the possibility of chewing up the hunter.

Indy,

It was shot in RSA.

Bwana Binduki,

That's what I said. That's one reason I thought it might be a "canned hunt." I didn't know there was any free ranging wild lion hunting in RSA.

Lion hunting in RSA
kind of like Milk in China. I am not sitting in judgement of you or anyone else that hunts Lion in RSA, but it is the capital of canned lion hunting
You almost never see a lion with that kind of mane in the wild or at least I don't.
Still a pretty cat

Outstanding trophy David. Great Cat and Artistic treatment.
Thank you for Sharing.
Frank

just to put this issue to bed once and for all and stop the innuendo, was this hunt behind a high fence?

Beautiful does not describe this mount - can you post some details re US Taxidermy! Website or address etc. thx

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Originally posted by leftcoast:
Beautiful does not describe this mount - can you post some details re US Taxidermy! Website or address etc. thx

taxidermy was done in RSA, where everybody knows NO really good work is ever done(yeah, right).

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Originally posted by jdollar:
just to put this issue to bed once and for all and stop the innuendo, was this hunt behind a high fence?

Are there any Non Chipped, Non Fenced lions in RSA? Maybe around Kruger?

tradewinds,

I know nothing about where L. David shot his lion or the circumstances of that hunt but I do know there are wild lions in the unfenced areas bordering Kruger. The areas run into the 100's of thousands of acres so it would be difficult to imagine you are not hunting wild lions. Mane quality tends to be excellent with the lions running very old. In the Timbavati bordering Kruger the hunt is all a tracking affair with a high frustration level as the criterion for a shootable lion tends to be difficult to fill. You maybe on lions everyday but not see the perfect one for harvest even after many days of tracking and looking over several monster males.

Mark

Mark is 100% correct. And LDK's Life Form mount is magnificent! Congratulations again.

Mr. Dollar,
If you wish to continue this futile attempt to defend the Taxidermy work that side please continue, I assure you this lion was not mounted by the guy eating mealy pop in the back. It seems to me your very sensitive about this particular issue, what is it? really.