Mine !!!!

Ceilings are too low. Not big enough.

I like the buff horns and zebra rug. Impala is neutral. Water buck is too big for the room.

Its under lock and key so my vegetarian guest are not scared !!!! Also cause I store all my ammo there - I need more ammo!!!!







Mike

Hi Mike,
It's your special place, filled with memories. You should be very proud.

Steve

I like it. You still have room for more critters. I've got low ceilings too and have come to the conclusion that euro or skull mounts are where it's at
Scott

Looks pretty nice to me.
I think I have you beat. We had dinner guests over a couple of years ago and the wife said, "You know what? It's starting to look like a lodge in here." Next day Mrs Blacktailer informed me that the mounts had to go elsewhere so I had to build a room in the barn.

Add about a dozen more Plains Game head&shoulder mounts, about that many quality 11"x17" prints of you with the trophies, and a full body Leopard mount, and it would be just about right...

Rich
I will add that it is much easier for me to make these suggestions than to find the necessary $$$ to do the same thing to mine.

Blacktailer, got you there. When my wife came home from work about five years ago and saw that the boys and I had hung my Cape Buffalo about eyeball height on the living room, we had a similar conversation; albeit a bit one-sided.
That is when I got my budget request okay'ed for an addition to my gun room and got to move every thing out there. Add a lazy-boy leather recliner, and it works for me.

its not crowded enough for my taste

Mike I love it...there's so much potential

Nothing wrong with that room. I like it.

You could really improve the looks of that room by not hanging out with vegetarians.

You're right. Not enough ammo. And there definitely is room for a lot more stuff. Go forth and produce more trophies!

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Originally posted by pagosawingnut:
You're right. Not enough ammo. And there definitely is room for a lot more stuff. Go forth and produce more trophies!

I have all my Europeans by my pool. People are very neutral to European mounts. Was at Restoration Hardware earlier today - they are selling manufactured impala European mounts. Costco is selling sheep skin rug by the crate.

I need more zebra skins - they make great rugs and gifts except they cost like 2K.

Anything too big takes up the room - like the waterbuck.

I will have a full mount lion coming in 6-12 months. Go where the TV is. Unless I don't want to move my ammo.


Another buff will become a European. I have a ton of stuff sitting in Botswana.

But my goal is to keep it less crowded.

Rick - I do need more ammo. I am seriously think of buying like a pallet load of ammo when this crisis ends - .223, 5.56, 30/06, 375H&H, 375 Ruger and lots of 22.

Mike

Come on men I am just finishing a room for
Life sized brown bear! That bear cost me
way too much after building a room for him. Hunting is really getting costly! yeeeeha let's go huntin'! Nice room Mike time to enjoy!

I think that room looks good, plenty of room for the critters waiting in Botswana. I love to see trophy rooms that are just jammed packed, no matter the size. Hope to have one like that of my own someday.

Mike, you didn't leave room for one of your Burkina Faso memories!!! :-)

OK that elephant does it! Please post pics of your trophy room(s) with life sized jumbo's! No I do not but I have room for envy/jealousy and yes respect in my trophy room for those who post'em! May want to start a new thread as I do not want to hijack mike's.

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Originally posted by Biebs:
Mike, you didn't leave room for one of your Burkina Faso memories!!! :-)

This is more like it

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Biebs:
Mike, you didn't leave room for one of your Burkina Faso memories!!! :-)


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Jon, I finally get to see the picture you mentioned more than once when we were at Nixon's place in Malapati.

Jess, this guy was my side-kick in the Caprivi...very friendly!

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Originally posted by Biebs:
Jess, this guy was my side-kick in the Caprivi...very friendly!

Very friendly till he squeezes the last drop of fanta out of you.

Mike

For sure!!!

Room looks great and clearly filled with many hours of memories that you will recall and enjoy for many years...

I like it, just bought a new house and I didn`t get that much room Now I have to argue to get some of it in the rest of the house, not easy!!

That is a very nice trophy room.Nice water buck.I would like to bag one some time.

Nice Room

I remember Ruark bagging a record waterbuck in his book.

This is my favorite room - my gun room. May get an impala head here but the walls will be filled with prints from Roland and photos of Anton.











These guns normally sit in few gun safes.

Mike

There is nothing wrong with that trophy room at all. I should be proud to spend time in a place like that.

Any trophy room regardless of size or ceiling height is better than never hunting. When you walk in that room and see those heads on the wall I hope you instantly think of the fun, hard work, travel time, practice shooting, and the whole experience of the hunt you had.
it's a ton bigger than my trophy room and you should be proud. Nice mounts and thanks for posting them.

Need more "stuff". How about Zambia with Andrew in 2015?

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Originally posted by Biebs:
Need more "stuff". How about Zambia with Andrew in 2015?

More hunting or more trophies/mounts Biebs ?

Mike

Best part of your room (not the trophies)...it does not have white walls!

I find most trophy rooms glaring. To me, trophy room walls should make the mount or horns stand out instead of overpower them. Just my tuppence worth.

Any trophy room beats no trophy room and yours is great. Well done.

Wow, you're right! Your bookshelves are nearly EMPTY! Fix that! -WSJ

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Originally posted by wsj:
Wow, you're right! Your bookshelves are nearly EMPTY! Fix that! -WSJ

I need to start buying 2 things

ammo

hunting books

I have keep book shelves a little empty in case i want to convert it back to my home office. Just need to move in a all in one mac and I am up and running.

Mike

I've been buying hunting, shooting, and reloading books for better than 40 years and never really figured I'd actually have any trophies from Africa to worry with. Now your trophy room makes mine look like what it was before it was the "gun room" - a garage/firewood room added on to the kitchen, which was added to the old house we live in after WWII! I could live with yours . . . -WSJ

Hang on, there's nothing wrong with that room and the great trophies you have on the way. You lost ANY chance at sympathy though when you showed us you also have a gun room.
They both look great!

It's special to you and that means it is special.
Perfect office Mike.
Been thinking about displaying my guns and seeing yours, here we go. Good idea , I"ll be working on it right after hunting season is over and work slows down ( December )
They have been stuck in gun room.

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Originally posted by Beretta682E:

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Originally posted by wsj:
Wow, you're right! Your bookshelves are nearly EMPTY! Fix that! -WSJ

I need to start buying 2 things

ammo

hunting books

I have keep book shelves a little empty in case i want to convert it back to my home office. Just need to move in a all in one mac and I am up and running.

Mike

Mike. Books display idea. I found couple of old oak lawyer bookcases and then incorporated some skulls ( predators ) and old and new hunting books and magazines in it.
I"ll take couple of pics and post them.

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Originally posted by boarkiller:

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Originally posted by Beretta682E:

quote:

Originally posted by wsj:
Wow, you're right! Your bookshelves are nearly EMPTY! Fix that! -WSJ

I need to start buying 2 things

ammo

hunting books

I have keep book shelves a little empty in case i want to convert it back to my home office. Just need to move in a all in one mac and I am up and running.

Mike

Mike. Books display idea. I found couple of old oak lawyer bookcases and then incorporated some skulls ( predators ) and old and new hunting books and magazines in it.
I"ll take couple of pics and post them.

Lawyer book cases are very cool - I like the idea of a lion skull in one.

I need to start buying some hunting books.

I really like your elephant tusk.

I think I am going to make replica tusks to put in my trophy room.

Mike

Books are great , love old stuff.
On internet for sure but I still run into old books and magazines in second hand stores, antiques stores, garage sales ...
Lawyer book cases, probably more available in south and east coast, they are great for displays for sure.
Milan