Anyone else think pedestal mounts are too much of a good thing?

The question is for clients not taxidermist, but I'd like to see Taxidermist chime in below.

If you don't have room for any more mounts please answer like you do.

Question:
What mount are you going to choose next time you shoot a memorable or big enough animal?

Choices:
Skull mount on a piece of wood shaped for the skull (European seems to be the common vernacular in American English)
Cleaned skull hanging on the wall itself
Shoulder mount
Neck mount
Rug instead of mount
Half life size
Complex life size
Simple life size (no base)
Complex multi-animal pedestal
Complex single animal pedestal
Wall pedestal
I don't like taxidermy
My financial situation doesn't warrant it right now
Wife hates taxidermy, and we don't have a place for me to put mine up so I am not doing that right now.
Novelty ie: (rabbits foot, ass mount, coat rack and so on).
Just back skin to throw over the couch.
Using the skins for furniture, novelty or clothing.

 

I'm not certain that I voted for the right thing. I voted Complex life-size because my Civet from 2010 is at the taxidermist's place waiting for me to climb off my wallet and give him the green light. I'm going with a life-sized mount on a pedestal, or, that's the plan unless someone gives me a bright idea for something else like a wall-mounted life size the way you see leopards on a branch or something life that. But now that I've moved and am in the land of new and interesting things I'll either go shoulder mount (if I get a muskox or a big caribou) or rug (wolf, wolverine, bear). If I'm lucky enough to get a second muskox then it'll be a rug or just a flat skin and a skull.

Decisions decisions...

Unemployed going on five years. Okay "retired" at 50. Anyhow, if a buffalo enters my future it would have to be a pedestal mount, as would another kudu. If I get the pickup bushbuck skull in my avatar done it would go in a shoulder mount via B&B Taxidermy in Houston -- he has skins...

Leaning towards more skull mounts, but it depends on what "steps out" in the future. I've been fortunate to come across some really old wood, cypress mostly, and I've had a couple of things done on wood I've saved and stained/oiled myself (plank out of an old water tank, etc.).

Keep your eye out for wood that some people would throw away, but some artist would charge $1K and upwards for.

BNagel - I'm in a similar situation - unemploye(able) going on 9 years. If you're retired at 50, ya' ain't no dummy. There should be a way to "make a plan" and get you a buffalo!

I just got drawn for a desert sheep hunt in AZ. So if all the stars align and the dawning of Aquarius occurs, my next mount will be a lifesize desert bighorn.

I have yet to decide on a particular pose, however. I might do it as a stand-up type on a roll-around base or I might do it lying down on some sort of rock outcropping to hang on a high wall. I imagine either would qualify as a "complex lifesize" which is how I voted.

Going to Kazakhstan in Oct. Hope to get a nice ibex and do full lifesize.

This and that and a lifesize Lesser Kudu.

I have done my last two big deer with wall pedestals and a 9" articulated arm...this allows me to turn the mount in any direction I wish or hang in a corner

My pronghorn is getting the same


This is a Joe Coombs about 8" off the wall and turned to the right even more then the factory mounting bracket would allow

Just a boring old shoulder mount if I get a nice bushbuck on my next trip.

Euro mounts of anything else unless I get the #1 RW of something.