Here's a half body Bison we just finished for R.Lee Ermey...better known as TV's Gunny from the Learning Channels"MAIL CALL"
Sump'n different

Now that is way cool!

I like that!! WTG!!

The mount looks very well done but the horns don't look like any American Bison I have ever seen. Is this a cross with something ? The horns look cattle like. Was this a pen raised animal?

This animal was taken in northern california on a 6200 ac ranch. I filmed the hunt.There were two large herds on this property and I didn't see any that looked cross bred, they sure new what we were there for though... we walked our butts off.

That's very cool, some how or another I knew that guy was a hunter. Well done.

Hey Jerry, That guy is a hunt'n fool, and funny as hell...Great guy
Unfortunatly for us, he leaves most of his taxidermy to be done wherever he happens to be at.

I met "The Gunny" here in Houston at the NRA convention, he was a heck'uva guy.

He said doing Mail Call was the most fun he had ever had with his clothes on.

Nice work on the mount. I have never been a fan of the rocks in the back, but you have a talent making them.

Those horns are the oddest Bison horns I have ever seen; coming forward with an odd curl. I know that the UDWR here in Utah have genetic tested many bison and have found cattle genes in most samples. Hard to believe that is the cause for the odd horn shape.

Very unique mount. I like it!

I knew what you were telling me about the mount and especially the base on the phone. That said I really still didnt appreciate it until I saw the picture. Nice job my friend!

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Originally posted by Ricardo C:
The mount looks very well done but the horns don't look like any American Bison I have ever seen. Is this a cross with something ? The horns look cattle like. Was this a pen raised animal?

Not to talk shit about the quality of the work in general but those horns look WAAY too far forward on the head. For that matter, it looks like the horns may have been switched right for left by the odd angles going on there. Also, what's with the forward angle? Looks like a black wildebeest. OK.....that honesty aside, I would like to see the trophy photos from the hunt because maybe the actual animal had this sort of odd look and your work is an absolutely perfect representation of him. Please don't take the above personally....you clearly do great work and this is a very creatively posed mount.

That is a quality mount, the work looks fantastic but I agree with tendrams on the horns, I went and looked at a bull just a few miles away and it's horns didn't look anything like that. Just looks weird to me.

Steve E..........

Yeah, we mount 10 to 12 bison a year and this one did have some funky shaped horns. Looking back at the footage of the animal the large long forward sweep of the horns and the lack of the heavy hair around them make'em look funky. But thats the way it looked.And I think the pictures exagerate it somehow,it dos'nt look that weird in person. All the same it is the what it is.
And I like weird

Max