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| I've left my last one in Zim - intend to do so further on until I'll get a Scrum Cap:  |
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| I am just doing European mounts on mine.
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| quote: Originally posted by MJines:
I am just doing European mounts on mine.
Me too. Wish I had spent more on hunting and less on taxidermy.
...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men.
-Edward, duke of York
". . . when a man has shot an elephant his life is full." ~John Alfred Jordan
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." Cicero - 55 BC
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand
Cogito ergo venor- KPete
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.”
― Adam Smith - “Wealth of Nations”
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| Euro mounts... if you have the chance have your buff done by Taxidermy Enterprises. My buff euro mounts on an African hardwood plaque cost me less than $150! You can hang them or just line em up on the floor in your trophy room...
On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling
Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.
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| I like the euro mounts too. I have them placed all around the room (bulls and cows) and they make a nice addition.
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| I know one guy also had some gun slips made from the buffalo hide as a "trophy".  That's what I'm doing with mine and then Euro mounts with the head.
The only easy day is yesterday!
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| Got 1 Bull shoulder mounted. European mounts on the others. I've done the cow thing a few times as well. Just about as much fun without the high costs. I would mount another however if I can get one over 40". The one I have mounted now is about 35". |
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| I have one mounted and the rest skulls laying around my trophy room. One sits on top of my bookshelf; another one is tipped against my lion pedestal, which looks cool. I have a carved wooded chair with a hyena skin covering it; I have another skull at the base of that. One sits near an end table. Another one sit behind a grizzly bear rug in front of a moose skull mount. |
| | | Posts: 7578 | Location: Arizona and off grid in CO | Registered: 28 July 2004 |
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| I've only taken one cape buffalo and that was 2010. He's quite good, heavy bosses and all, and there was no way I wasn't going to mount him. He looks great on the wall! I got an excellent old grandaddy water buffalo bull with no front teeth this year in the Arnhem land and he too will be shoulder mounted. If you shoot something really good then preserve it with a shoulder mount, otherwise go the euro way. |
| | | Posts: 966 | Location: Austin, Texas | Registered: 23 September 2011 |
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| A Cape buffalo hunt can be an excellent hunt. Selecting a good cow without a dependant calf while working a herd can be a challenge. As mentioned, the skull and horns is an interesting trophy room addition even unmounted. A good photograph is a nice companion piece to recount the context of taking the trophy. |
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| I was in a taxidermy shop last Saturday and he had some european mounts, deer, a cape, and a bison, that the skull had been dipped in a camo pattern film, similar to how they do stocks. It gave a nice, even, shiney coat. They actually looked great. I wish I had taken a picture. |
| | | Posts: 10478 | Location: N.W. Wyoming | Registered: 22 February 2003 |
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| Great stuff guys. Adam, that kudu and the buff on the right look like real monsters!
"When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick."
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| I have taken two buffaloes and have one european mount. If my next one s bigger than the one that I have mounted, I'll mount it, if not - pictures. |
| | | Posts: 1903 | Location: Greensburg, Pa. | Registered: 09 August 2002 |
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| Eight buffalo bulls, one shoulder mount, four cleaned sculls and three left in Africa. Now I would only ship one home if I was shipping ivory or a big leopard. Shipping costs from Zim to california equals round trip airfare for the next hunt. |
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