I was digging around in storage about 10 years ago at work (when I was in the Navy) and found a tiger shoulder mount. We had taken over another squadrons spaces (the flying tigers VP-46, I think?) and they were on deployment.

It was the most awful looking tiger I had ever seen.

Has anyone of you taxidermist done any shoulder mounts of big cats? How did they turn out?

I would guess this is normally done when an animal ends up with too many bullet holes to make a clean life size?

I dont think bullet holes has anything to do with it, Hyenas,space limit at home and just plain crazy would be more why people do it

The Tiger mount was most likely very old. Large predator shoulder mounts will look as good as the taxidermist skills allow, lifelike or what you have in the Tiger head.