Very nice Doc. I like the dry grass and red soil of the base, just like BF. Lord knows how many lions we have walked passed over there in the high grass! A client of ours shot a waterbuck last year and as they were walking up to it a lioness appeared from no where and claimed the dead waterbuck. She was not happy when they chased her off and even chased the truck finally!
Thank you everyone, I think the Taxidermist did an excellent job of capturing what I wanted in this lion display. The lion has his eyes locked on some prey as he proceeds towards it.
Thank you Overland, I always wanted a skull mount for my Ele, for me it adds a special charm, I also brought back a couple of thoracic vertebrae that you can see in that photo as well as one of the femurs, which is in front of the Skull.
Aziz
Posts: 591 | Location: Illinois | Registered: 04 July 2005
Thanks for sharing, Aziz! I love the way your room is organized, very tasteful. Congratulations on some wonderful adventures with great mounts to remind you of those hunts.
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Who did the ele skull and tusks? Are the tusks in the skull mount replicas with the real ivory on the bases in another photo, or are the real ones in the skull?
I brought back an ele skull a few years ago and have it sitting at my camp outside where it is slowly deteriorating in the elements. I like what you've done - and it will last many lifetimes.
JEB Katy, TX
Already I was beginning to fall into the African way of thinking: That if you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers—then you have not merely killed an animal. You have lent immortality to a beast you have killed because you loved him and wanted him forever so that you could always recapture the day - Robert Ruark
The Elephant skull has replica tusks, the real tusks are on bases on either side of the fireplace, both were done by Highveld Taxidermists in South Africa. He also built the base on which the Ele skull hangs.
The European mount is of a Red Deer I shot in Bulgaria and they are the ones who bleached the skull, so I did not send it to a taxidermist.
Regards Aziz
Posts: 591 | Location: Illinois | Registered: 04 July 2005