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Obviously someone thought so.  | |||
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Strewth Dave, that must be even older than you!  | |||
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35,40years old | |||
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As old as he will ever get! Keith IGNORE YOUR RIGHTS AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!!! ------------------------------------ We Band of Bubbas & STC Hunting Club, The Whomper Club | |||
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That is an awesome mount. Whatever it cost it was money well spent. Keith O'Neal Trophy Collectors Consultants Po Box 3908 Oxford, AL. 36203 256-310-4424 TCChunts@gmail.com All of your desires can be found on the other side of your fears. | |||
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where did you get a picture of my mother in law? 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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David, if you could send me the details on the taxidermist, I would certainly appreciate it. I need a good artist to tackle my cat taken last week and this guy seems to do some fine work! | |||
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I could not care less how old he is. If that is the way he looks at me, from that distance, he is DEAD! | |||
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You are kidding, aren't you? Bill Quimby | |||
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Bill, you ARE kidding, aren't you?  | |||
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 I think that's the way Jimmy Whittall was thinking when he shot it in the 1940s... | |||
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I think that's the way Jimmy Whittall was thinking when he shot it in the 1940s... THE SHANGAAN SONG - STORIES FROM THE BUSH I would have guessed the '60's, with that Beatles 'do. | |||
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Todd: Beauty obviously is in the eyes of the beholder. To my eyes, that lion head is a classic example of why many people still say "stuffed" when speaking of the taxidermy art. I would refuse to pay for such work and demand that the "stuffer" provide me with another head skin so I could take it to a qualified taxidermist, if that were my lion. To each his own,I guess. Bill Quimby | |||
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Bill, we aren't seriously having this discussion, are we? Of course that is a world class "stuffing". I especially like the Elvis sideburns. And they got the facial expressions just right, don't you think. Kind of an electronic cattle prod on the testicles expression. Bill, you need to go back and review ALL the posts on this thread because I think you are missing something. A sense of humor, perhaps? Cheers | |||
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Not so much a shooter as a burner. k | |||
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He was shot 20 years before taxidermy was invented. 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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  ............................................................Ouch! Damn that makes my eyes hurt!....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Obviously. Bill Quimby | |||
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Exactly, and has been decaying on the wall for 60+ years. | |||
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he looks more like an hyena with proper lamb chop sideburns that lived in the 70's than a lion! | |||
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A couple more points in defense of this mangy stuffing....That tongue is the original tongue skinned out. Wonder which modern day taxidermist could do that? Furthermore, if I had hunted and shot this lion the way Jimmy Whittall did (alone in the thick stuff in 1940 something with probably an old .303), I'd be a hell of a lot prouder than if I 'hunted' and shot any one of the 98.7% tame, permed lions that are shot these days, regardless of what the stuffing/mount looked like...Just saying... | |||
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It would be interesting to see if a modern taxidermist could rescue that mount. 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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That's an interesting thought...Of course, it is just there for sentimental reasons, Roger has a number of fine modern mounts of different animals. | |||
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In other words, it's not the quality of the mount, but the quality of the hunt. 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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