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Have a 2010 hunt lined up for bongo. I want to do a shoulder mount and was wondering if there would be enough for a rug? They're big animals but not sure if it would be big enough. If not, then any suggestions on what to do with the leftover hide? | ||
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A pair of chinks would be very cool. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Many make rugs from their backskins. I have a few I will be working on shortly for an AR member. Will post pictures when they are completed. You may consider leather backed pillows, matting for a framed trophy picture of the bongo or a bongo hide covered photo album for your hunt pictures. PM or e-mail me if I can be of any help. Kind regards, Mary Taxidermist/Rugmaker | |||
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Bluefin, Do you have room for a full mount? Can you make room? IMO, the bongo is the most spectacular FBM, ever. Ever. Best of luck on your hunt. Who are you going with? "You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world" - J Joplin | |||
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Another vote for the full mount, but otherwise how about a pedestal mount? use the rest of the hide to cover the back of the pedestal mount and skin panels for the pedestal base. | |||
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Mary, I'd love to see some pictures of your rugs. I'm real interested to see what one would look like after part has been used for a shoulder mount. You're very highly regarded on here so I may very well be contacting you. Guys, I wished I could do a full mount. Man I wished I could. I don't have the room. I just got the dimensions for Lord Derby I took earlier this year and that was for a pedestal - 7' tall X roughly 3.5' around. Boddington warned me it would be big! LOL | |||
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I agree that it takes up a lot of room and a lot of money for a lifesize. If you can find anyway to do the bongo lifesize I think you should do it. I have mounts done as shoulder, pedestal, 1/2 lifesize, and lifesize. Although nice in their own way they just cant hold up to a lifesize of a bongo. It is the best way to show off a unique and beautiful animal. The other poses are ok but dont show the full beauty of the animal. Bongo is one of the few that need to done full mount to show the true animal at its fullest potential. Well worth the extra time and money to build a special area to display such an animal Happiness is a warm gun | |||
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This needs to be a lifesize mount. Shoulder mount Bongo just doesn't do the animal justice and you lose so much of its beauty. I would make payments, borrow, what ever, to do the lifesize. | |||
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I agree that a bongo needs to be mounted lifesize. Too pretty of an animal, plus a once in a lifetime hunt. Bluefin, I bet you can find the room for one somewhere, even in a corner as a corner mount. Good luck on your hunt. | |||
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Hey Evy.....welcome to AR!  Taxidermist/Rugmaker | |||
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I can do the pillows | |||
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I vote for a Euro mount and then you have enough hide to make yourself a Bongo skin vest or jacket.  . . . . . . . . . . . . OK....you really should full mount it. | |||
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I do not have a photo but once in France in a taxidermist shop I saw a full rug of a bongo. Just like a bear rug would be with the head mounted and the hide streched and laid out. It looked OK. But a bongo desearves to be lifesized. | |||
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Years ago -- many, many, many moons ago -- one of the first things I ever did in Taxidermy was a Whitetail Deer rug, from a little spike buck! The guy had it done for his kid, who got the deer. It looked cool, if not a little odd, but a head mount would have been so much more cool. In the case of this - or any Bongo, I must concur with the prevailing opinion here, and suggest you find a place of honor for this magnificent trophy animal as a full mount! You know, if floor space is a problem, you could have it mounted to hang from the wall. Have the Bongo mounted in either a walking uphill or downhill pose through vegetation, to hang on a wall. The height of the mount in concert with the pose will give the impression of the animal walking up or down a mountainside! Have the head turned looking outward into the room and there you have it! I would look absolutely marvelous! The final fate of this animal take considerable thought before you make your final decision, but I would suggest to strongly consider going with the full mount ... on the wall. Take care, John. Improving the Quality and Status of Taxidermy Since 1970. | |||
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I have see once a full hide bongo rug (flat hide,like a classic zebra rug.) really, the best skin rug I have ever see. much more nice than a zebra rug. But if you can a full mount one is better, this is true. if for you is better a shoulder+rug have it skinned for lifesize anyway, so all the skin not used for the shoulder mount can be used for the rug. D.V.M. | |||
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full mount!!! "Conservation through Hunting" | |||
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I have somewer in the pc a pics of a backhalf skin rug from a bongo if i can found I will post. D.V.M. | |||
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I would get my Bongo first, then you'll know what to do with him. Lize size will be the ticketGray 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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One quick mention, might save you some grief, make sure you're around when they cape him out, because the worst thing is when a skinner gets to generous on the cape and cuts the backhide down to nothing. It happened to my on a zebra mount left me with a backhide that's 20 inches wide. | |||
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Bluefin is hunting with CAWA and their policy is if you dont get "home" your animal to the taxidermist in good condtion you can come and hunt the animal for free again.. | |||
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Full body mount. If necessary we will take up a collection here to help you out. Rich | |||
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Rich, would that be for the mount or the addition to the house.  Lorefuma, That rug looks to be pretty good size considering it's only half. Would love to see a full sized bongo rug. As luck would have it, I just had 8 mounts delivered (5 African, 2 sheep, 1 mntn goat) to go with what I already have. I still have more being processed - one of which is a LDE! My situation was to either purchase a bigger home but not be able to afford exotic hunting or stay put and fly across the world and hunt. The decision was pretty easy for me. The real problem will be when I do decide to move is finding a house with a room suitable for all this stuff. I'm also already talking to Erik about hunting again with him in 2011. That would give me another shot at a 2nd bongo and if that's the case I'll probably go ahead and have the first one rugged. Although, he did tell me that one of his PH's found a monster. Just hope Aaron Neilson doesn't beat me to it. He's posted enough monster animals already!!  | |||
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http://www.carlocaldesiaward.it/ITA/gallery_1.html in the pics of trophy room you can see a fullbody bongo rug, bad thing they post only extrasmall pics. D.V.M. | |||
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Thanks for finding that. You're right though, it is pretty small. Beauty of a trophy room! | |||
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I just saw this post Bluefin and wanted to throw in my 2 cents. Took a bongo about three years ago. Wouldn't even consider anything but lifesize mount even if I had to put it in our bed room. You headed to Vegas for the Grand Slam/OVIS convention?? If so, look me up and say hello. Cheers--Mark Hampton | |||
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