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20 January 2014, 14:21

tendrams

When I shoot cats...I am doing this. ;)

Are we too obsessed with full mounts and fancy, head taxidermied, felt lined, leather bordered, rugs?

http://www.namibianhunting.com...amibia-ranch-(3).jpg

21 January 2014, 00:11

woodsie

Just my opinion, and nothing more, but I love full body mounts, especially for the great cats. I couldn't do this to a such a trophy.
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21 January 2014, 01:24

Grenadier

Looks like somebody hit them with a fly swatter.

21 January 2014, 01:46

A.Dahlgren

Its hard to decide and I also love the rugs but after taking one of the great cats we have in this world I went for a full mount!

21 January 2014, 02:24

Frostbit

Beautiful display Anton. You have the eye for composition.

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21 January 2014, 08:36

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quote:
Originally posted by Grenadier:
Looks like somebody hit them with a fly swatter.

+1 no way was i going to take the only leopard i will probably ever shoot and turn him into a flying squirrel with spots

21 January 2014, 08:52

JBrown

quote:
Originally posted by tendrams:
Are we too obsessed with full mounts and fancy, head taxidermied, felt lined, leather bordered, rugs?

http://www.namibianhunting.com...amibia-ranch-(3).jpg

Those look perfectly normal to me.... Maybe that is because I sat in that room on my first trip to Africa in 2000. That is Fredrich Redeker's Westfallenhof ranch in Namibia.

Maybe you think they should have been done as full mounts, but I can guarantee that these are just a couple of the leopard/cheetah trophies that Fredrich has killed.

Fredrich does have a full mount of a brown hyena in his main house.

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21 January 2014, 11:26

tendrams

quote:
Originally posted by JBrown:

Maybe you think they should have been done as full mounts, but I can guarantee that these are just a couple of the leopard/cheetah trophies that Fredrich has killed.

Fredrich does have a full mount of a brown hyena in his main house.

Rug the cats...full mount the hyena! LOVE IT! As much as I really admire Anton's place in particular (absolutely gorgeous, my friend!) and while I recognize people are of different priorities/means, I can't help but look at taxidermy anymore and think to myself, "I could have hunted XYZ with that money"! Two full mount cats, for example, starts to approach the cost of an end of season buffalo hunt, after all.