Here is a very nice bongo. One of the best skins we've had to work with...

As always, great work. Thank you for sharing.

Do you know where that bongo was shot?

Wow, very nice.

Thanks for sharing.

Kyler

Very nice. I like the base, the foliage, and the positioning.

Is the hide that dark or is it the lighting? It looks much darker than other bongos I have seen. It reminds me of the Bongos from the great state of Texas I saw pictures of at SCI a couple of years ago. Can't remember the name of the farm.

I very much like to see some more pictures of the detail.

Thanks for posting

I agree it looks nice and it is a dark one. looks like the ones you see in books that were taken in Kenya in the Aberdares. I have also seen some in zoos that were this color and I believe they were the East African variety as well. It seems the ones from west Africa are more orange in tone and the ones from the east are a darker, more maroon/red color.

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It reminds me of the Bongos from the great state of Texas I saw pictures of at SCI a couple of years ago.

That's why I asked, the darker coat reminds me of a Texas bongo.

Thanks for the comments. Yes, it was taken in the great state of Texas. Not sure the Ranch but it was 100% Texan.... DAN

At first I thought it looked like one from the mountains of Kenya, dark hair like the ones I have seen in pictures. The best looking eland mount I ever saw was shot at a ranch in Texas. I think that the reason the skins on the local animals come out so much better is that they don't get that course salt they use in Africa, and don't get dried out rock hard and sit in the skinning shed for 6 months or more, then have to be rehydrated when they get to the states a year or more later, and with bongos,risk red mildew and bugs from sitting in a damp rain forest skinning shed. It is a beautiful mount.

RBHunt,

I would have to agree with you. Not sure if it is scientific, but it can't help the quality of skin to set that long and be exposed to the whole process. It may also be the environment in which they live in Africa is much more wild and remote as compared to the ranches in Texas. Again, I'm only speculating and have no proof of any of these theories... DAN

I would bet the original import was of the east African genetics. All the bongos I have seen in zoos have this coloration as well. This would make sense as logistically it would have been easier to get a specimen from kenya than Cameroon or CAR.

Great looking mount

Great Mount!!!
W.

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Originally posted by Grafton:
I would bet the original import was of the east African genetics. All the bongos I have seen in zoos have this coloration as well. This would make sense as logistically it would have been easier to get a specimen from kenya than Cameroon or CAR.

ALL the captive raised bongo are eastern race. Some older western bongo bull can have a darker coloration but not like this one.

just curious- do the use pygmy trackers and dogs in Texas to hunt bongo???

Nobody tracks in texas (for bongo) just sit comfortably and shoot them when they come to the feeder. Geezer "Hunting" is how it was described to me.