I have a 13 foot croc being shipped back from a Mozambique hunt in September 2006. It's taken a long time to get from camp to RSA. It has yet to be tanned. Assuming it hasn't putrefied, I am considering my options.
I was considering a rug, but on searching this forum, hanging it on a wall doesn't seem to be a good option. I really don't have room for a life-size.
Does anyone have photos of a croc head/shoulder mount? Has anyone used head/shoulder emerging from water?
I'm just not sure what to do with this guy.

I am guessing you have the skull, I'd clean the skull and hang a trophy photo next to the skull.

I'd get the skin chrome tanned into croc leather and use it for all my croc skin needs.

Wife might want a purse, or a pair of shoes, and you could have a nice pair of boots, a belt, and enough left over for several book covers, wallets, and other misc paraphalia.

Marty,

I have seen the mounts you have in question at taxidermy conventions. Sorry I do not have pictures.

A swimming croc's head just above water is an attractive mount as is a head only, head and one leg, or a half body vertical leap, out of water, to grap a bird, monkey, etc., from a low branch. Both of these mounts would take up 1/4 to 1/3 of the linear floor space that a full mount or rug would require.

Shame to waste a whole croc on just a skull mount. JMO

Kind regards,
Mary

have you considered the option of a full mount in curled position?from a 13 feet croc you can cut in this way maybe 5 or 6 feet... and the best croc mout I'v ever see is in this position.

Try a wall hanging FULL MOUNT it needs no base and it is a swimming pose that hangs on the wall with the head swept out striking
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When (and if) I have a my croc this is the pose I would use.. whit a more open mouth of course...
and maybe whit a cast head for have a nice display of the skull

The curled postition of the croc in the pic is one I have never seen but it looks good, I do really like it. However, at $400+ a foot that 13 ft croc will cost the better part of a 10 day buffalo hunt in Zim if you add the 2k trophy fee. Too much for my pocket book. I like D99's idea.