new leopard mount

12 February 2010, 12:32

spanishhunter

Hello friends.
First of all, thank you for your assitance, I would not have been able to post pictures whitout Oz help.
Second, I´m glad you like the mount. It was from a leopard hunt which took place in Zim in 2006. Leopard unexpectly kill a villager cow so I had the chance of shooting this big male over a natural kill.
Cow was in the ground, so I had to shoot at Leopard laying down and facing at me... It was an oustanding frontal shot entering middle of the chest, just below the chin, and exiting just behind the right frontal leg. Eventhought, he managed to get up and run for about 100 metres before dieing... so I had to track him down at night with a scoped 300WMag...crazy, I only did it beacuse I was completely sure it was a dead shot, but I have no words to describe my thougths over the PH...
The mount was done in Spain, cost 3000$, I think pretty cheap for the total result.

best regards

13 February 2010, 14:19

spanishhunter

Thanks.
Leopard weight was about 72 kg, I did not measure skull, sorry. The girl pic is not so good, but I promise she is my wife, not my daugther ;-)
Thank you Ahmed for your words, I´m still dreaming on having a safari like the one you went througt, Is a lot of beutiful mounts you can get from that :-) Did you order a full mount for your beutiful Lion?

best regards

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