I have an colleague with an amazing trophy room. He has been hunting africa for decades. I only wish I could post pictures. He has turned down offers to appear in the Great Trophy Rooms book series. (or whatever they are called). He finally got tired of all the attention such as hosting a bunch of affairs there and the wear and tear on his family.

Hundreds of trophies....he has a mountainside built in the middle of the room with sheep and goats from aroud the world.

The full body mount/display of the buff and lion fighting is eye catching, as is the full croc mount, but the full body mount of the white rhino really seems to attract attention.

It was a true pleasure to enjoy his trophy room at a local SCI function a few years ago. His collection would make most museums jealous.

Anyone else got any good stories?

Duckear, Is the fellow you are speaking of a neurosurgion or cancer specialist from Nashville by chance? If so please PM me as I was invited to come and see a trophy room like you have mentioned, but can not remember his name.

Can't remember his first name, but the last was Johnson. Wasn't a trophy room, but a seperate structure built like a rondoval. This collection is now part of the Wharton County Museum (right across Business 59 from the newly rennovated Tee Pee Motels )

Is the collection in Wharton still intact? BTW, I thought they really screwed up the charm of the structures when they put up that crappy aluminum facade. Leave it to govt.

The greatest one I've seen is like walking through Africa on a carpet trail and has probably as many animals in it as Noah's Ark. It belongs to a couple who both hunt and I hear the wife does more hunting than the husband. There are two of every animal and they are all full body mounted. The room is sectioned into about three parts with dioramas of various parts of Africa following along every inch of wall space. They're is about 5 lions, 3 or so bongos, 11 leopards, a giraffe, 2 rhinos, a zebra with a strange set of over grown hooves, and any other animal you could possibly imagine from Africa. The only animal I don't recall seeing full body mounted was an elephant (there was a shoulder mount of one over the fireplace as well as a few Lord Derby's eland shoulder mounts). They're is some various species of sheep mounted around the house as well as an assortment of bears, elk, and deer (some lifesize and others shoulder mounts). From what I heard, they're is a bunch of other animals in storage that couldn't be fit into the trophy room.

It is an absolutely fantastic trophy room. I'm sure there are at least a few hunters who know who's trophy room I'm talking about. I'll jump at the next chance I get to tour that trophy room.

Sevens,
Let me guess... their surname rhymes with “Hatshould�


Kyler

quote:

Originally posted by Hunter Formerly Known As Texas Hunter:
Is the collection in Wharton still intact? BTW, I thought they really screwed up the charm of the structures when they put up that crappy aluminum facade. Leave it to govt.

The trophy collection still seemed very impressive if not entirely intact at Xmas '05.

Putting all that aluminum around really did mess it up. I have fond memories of going in there as a little kid, hope my 6 yr old has a similar reaction when he sees it first week in August.

quote:

Let me guess... their surname rhymes with “Hatshould�

Kyler, they have a great trophy room, but not the couple I was thinking of.

I found a few pictures off Artworks Taxidermy's website of the trophy room I was thinking of. This is just a small corner of the entire room and the diorama extends all the way around the trophy room.


This is the Zebra I mentioned earlier.

Does Cabelas count?

Ole's Big game lounge, Paxton Ne.

Holiday Inn, Thermopolis Wy!

And Saeeds room!

What a strange zebra. I've never seen that before.

Here are some more photos of the back wall of the trophy room, with exception to the lions. They are from the Christmas party they do every year. Photos are thanks to Ron Pieretti.

Would it be Atwood?

Best regards;
Brett

quote:

Would it be Atwood?

Nope, the Atwoods have a very nice trophy room and beautiful house, but they're trophy room is nowhere near the size of this one (which is saying something because I believe the Atwood's is 3,000 or 4,000 square feet.)

The owners of this trophy room live up in the Sacramento area.

I was invited to see Pete Papac's room the year he won the Weatherby (SP?) trophy. It was beyong impressive.

I also saw the collection of W.T. Yoshimoto in Honolulu before it got shipped to Tokyo. It had just about everything that could be hunted both past and present and they were all lifesize mounts. Again, beyond impressive.

Both these trophy room are shown in one of the Trophy Room books published by Safari Press.

Mac

For me it would definitely be the W.T. Yoshimoto wildlife museum here in Honolulu. As Mac said it was beyond impressive. For me what I really loved seeing was animals that can no longer be hunted and the stories behind the hunts. And the array of full mounts was just astonishing. I wish it could have remained here in Honolulu but at least it was kept together and not divided up and sold etc.

Supposedly there is a guy my friend Shan shares a duck lease with in Arkansas that has a trophy room I simply must see (I still have not). He lives near Memphis. Last I heard the guy was quite sick.

If that is who you are referring to Duckear I hope the guy is doing better.

Huck Spaldings was most impressive, when he finished the expansion, i.e., new wings... he ws kind enough to hold an open house for SCi types... Then SCi bit the hand which was feeding it. Oh well.

Now I am just voicing my opinion here when I write this.

I think its just down right disrespectful to adorn hunting trophies is such a way as these pictures show.

I once visited a freind in Pueblo, Colorado. He spoke of a huge mounted bear that was on display in a local dentist office. So I just had to go see it. When we walked in there was the bear alright. A full standing body mount. With a red bucket full of decorations hanging from its claw.

I enjoyed the mount as well as a few others. But I just don't understand why people would allow or do such a thing. It just ain't right.

Max,

They decorate the animals for an annual Christmas event in which they have an orphanage come by and they give the children Christmas presents. I'm not partial to decorating the animals, but, hey, they're not mine and it's for a good cause.