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Just bought a new house. It has a room suitable for hanging my collection of taxidermy, about 25 heads. The room is finished with very nice sheet rock walls. Is there any way or hanging method that will minimize the damage to sheet rock when putting in nails or screws or bolts to hang heads? I will pedestal my Cape buffalo, but have some larger heads, caribou, eland, elk, etc. Thanks NRA Patron member | ||
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Just be sure to find studs to sink a bolt into. If you're worried about holes in the Sheetrock, nothing with give you validation of that worry faster than a heavy head falling to the floor after a bolt pulls out of the wall because you didn't go through and into a stud. | |||
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df06 What Dan said is true but if you've got 25 heads I imagine some are deer size and smaller. If that's true you can hang an amazing amount of weight with well installed sheet rock anchors that you can buy at any hardware store. I'm looking at five bushbuck right here in my office that are all hung with sheet rock anchors. They will leave holes but you can worry about that when you sell the house. Mark MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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What I am going to suggest is more work, and costs a few dollars but if you are handy may be easy. Nail 1/2 inch plywood over the existing sheet rock into the studs. Cover the plywood with 1/4 inch sheet rock and finish. Now you can place your trophy's wherever you want. Mike  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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What Mark said...that is the best and easiest solution. I did the plywood thing in my last house...obviously works perfectly but is an expensive solution. Where you cannot hit studs...the drywall anchors work great and displace the weight and are easy to install. The heavy duty ones have the two flanges and a spring that spread out once you punch them through. I have several large mounts hung this way. | |||
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I used 3/4 plywood on my TR when I built my house, but even then, I used the wing type anchors for heavy loads. Really heavy stuff like Cape buff and Alaska-Yukon moose require a pretty heavy bolt; on those I went into the stud. | |||
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X3 on what Mike said. I have 40 + years of construction. You can get extensions for electrical boxes or re-wire to your plan. It would be easy to retro fit mini spot lights & switches to accent trophy's. Sit down and make a good plan. Cats have nine lives. Which makes them ideal for experimentation... | |||
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On the last house that I had built we saved all the scrap 2x4's and filled in between the studs in all the areas that I might want to hang trophies. It worked out great. Only bad thing was; I don't own that house anymore. velocity is like a new car, always losing value. BC is like diamonds, holding value forever. | |||
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I used 1x12s varnished in my log house den on one wall and logs on the other three sides..plenty stout, I could hang a live elephant on them.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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