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A tick hangs onto a blade of grass somewhere in the lowveld. An old eland bull walks by and the the tick crawls up the leg and attaches itself in the arm pit of the eland. The eland goes for a drink of water and is shot by an American bow hunter. The eland is skinned, the skin is fleshed, washed, salted, dried and stored. Then the skin is transported, dipped, folded, stored, packed, air shipped, unpacked, rehydrated, tanned, shaved, frozen, stored, truck shipped, refrozen, thawed, washed, mounted.............and here I am (one year after the tick was hanging onto that blade of grass) pulling the dead tick off the armpit before the mount is finished drying. Am I just crazy or is that an amazing journey? | ||
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I used to see them all the time on Buffalo. The pink and green variety. What amazed me was they were still attached after tanning. Cool story you wrote about their journey. I guess Ticks can "safari" too! David Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I've thought that MANY times over as well! Those big green ones are some tuff hombres.. They get buried in there and they'll hang on for the long haul! | |||
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I'd be tempted to leave it on the mount for the sake of authenticity. | |||
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Good one Grafton!  A flat artist, taxidermist, sculptor AND a writer...your list grows larger my friend. While working on zebra rugs, which have lion claw rake scars on their hind quarters or scars from other zebras biting them, I find myself daydreaming of the life the creature lead before he made it to my rug table. Mary Taxidermist/Rugmaker | |||
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What would of been amazing is that when you went to pull it off the mount....it moved!  ------------------------------ A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!" | |||
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