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the wife and I just bought our first house together, and it has 18' ceilings in the entry way and living room. i've been living for the past 6 months without my elk, as he would simply not fit in the rental house. i mean we could not get him through the 100yr old narrow doors... but we're getting settled in the new home, and even though she despises shoulder mounts (loves antlers and euros), she knows where he has to go. my office is next to the living room with 9' ceilings, so most of my stuff will be in there, and the one-day-finished basement/man room. the office is under construction, so pics of it later. but for now, my boy is finally home!  <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/user/coopermb133/media/IMG_3536.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n257/coopermb133/IMG_3536.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_3536.jpg"/></a> | ||
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Way too much empty space on those walls, you need some more trophies up there. Nice! | |||
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Great height to those ceilings. The mount looks tremendous and uncluttered. ROYAL KAFUE LTD Email - kafueroyal@gmail.com Tel/Whatsapp (00260) 975315144 Instagram - kafueroyal | |||
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pagosa i'd put 30 heads on those walls if i were allowed...and if i had 30 heads. but i think he does look really good alone up there, really shows him off. i'm surprised how massive he looks in person even on such a big wall | |||
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I'm planning on going 16 feet high for my trophy room, so it's good to see what an 18 foot wall looks like. Makes me think I'm going to be OK with 15 feet. Congrats on your new home, that's a great first animal for the wall!!!! | |||
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yeah you should be ok. for reference he is right about 5' tall from bottom of chest to tip of the tallest antler; and his chest is just a touch over 9' from the floor. he might be a little too high. but there is so much wall space we tried to find a spot where there wouldnt' be too much room above or below him. | |||
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I have a question for those of you with mounts that are way up high: how do you keep them clean? I have a living room ceiling that goes fro 9-14 feet and have several shoulder mounts on the walls. (My wife is very kind about indulging me; she calls it our wildlife museum.) I end up having to get up on a pretty tall ladder at least a few times a year to keep the dust and cobwebs off. It's a pain. Anyone have another easier method they use? | |||
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sdirks; i have to use the ladder method as well, so i'm not much help to you. | |||
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Nice elk. Those daggers are huge! for what its worth, I use an extendable lightbulb changer and tape a duster to it. I can clean my mounts without getting the ladder out. | |||
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That's one Heck of a start! Great bull  | |||
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A good redecorator, (African agent) , can fill those walls darn quick! I could see a buff or two, waterbuck, kudu, Nyla, maybe a Lord Derby eland,.... Endless possibilities with endless $$$$$!  | |||
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its that endless money part that i havent' figured out how to get yet...with that it would be a much more "worldly" room. in the office (the door in the pic) is where most of my shoulder mounts will be. right now its just a mulie and antelope. soon my pedestal impala and euro b.wildebeest will show up, and a couple whitetails when i make another cross country drive to pick them up from my folks house. | |||
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Now that's an Elk! Congrats on a great bull! 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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Very nice John! As much fishing and hunting that you do I'm surprised that great bull is so lonely! Hey, new bride and all, she married a hunter-fisherman. She'd damned well better get her priorities straight on game mounts. Don't tell her I'm the one that said so, she might waylay me whenever I'm invited in that fine mansion. How high is the ceiling in the basement? We built a 30'x 30' room on but, only 8' ceiling. That don't work worth a damn. Nice muley buck, 2 pigs, deer horns and antelope horns fill the only wall space in the whole room. Barely 8' wide. Dad's moose, blk bear, caribou and elk rack are in the shop 13'6' walls there. but, it's mighty dusty from all the grinding and other work I do out there. Don't know the cure, like you, lack of funding. Wish you well, thanks for sharing your beautiful place with us. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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