Guys
90% of what I shoot is either female or a 'cull buck' so this is generally not an issue, but I am slowly finding myself with a growing pile of boiled out heads in the garage.

I would like to ask the older members with even more accumulated bone - what do you do with them all?

Living in London, I'm unlikely to have a trophy room anytime soon and the stairwell/living room will only take 10 heads comfortably (5 if you ask my other half).

At this rate, I think I'll have more than 20 large species heads sitting in a pile by next season, with a few smaller bits and pieces too. My parents have already asked me to stop bringing boiled skulls and antlers home ostensibly as Christmas presents.

By far the most of my roe "trophies" sit in boxes in the cellar. I guess that if I shot a really great trophy, I would find room for it on the wall somewhere.

The bigger problem is what to do with all the trophies from far away lands, the ones I have dreamt about for years and consequently had mounted - in spite my small appartment being more than full. No more hunting surely can't be the solution...

- mike

Grow a pair!

Hang them up while she's on holiday.

Keep the very good ones and recycle the lesser ones in the organic bin. Cut off roe antlers make good gifts for kids or key hangers.

Therefore, the big benefit of doe hunting is not only that it's cheap but that you don't have to waste time to boil down and prepare trophies.

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Hang them up while she's on holiday.

Wait until you have a big row, then go into the bathroon and start drilling into the tiles, 5 or 6 in there ought to get things back on an even keel.



Personally, I use mine in the trophy room for baseball cap hangers so lining the hallway with a few wouldn't be that far off whack either!

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Originally posted by Ghubert:
Grow a pair!.....

Don't make me laugh....

Ye who has to get a pass-out for a Saturday, and you are not even married.

Funny as can be,

I dont have room at all for my few and scraggly looking heads,

ie they are all hung in the storage.

/Chris

My point is - happy to hang up anything that I would class as 'very nice' like the stag I took a couple weeks ago. I'm struggling to throw away/sell/leave the mid-sized heads that make up the bulk of anyones cull. What do you do with the 8pt stag, the nice 4pt roe, the fallow sorrel. Fling it in a ditch? I have made some stick making friends very happy anyway.

Maybe I am stuck between the Continental habit of putting everything up and the way of certain British stalkers, who will happily throw nice heads in the hedgeline.

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Originally posted by Claret_Dabbler:

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Originally posted by Ghubert:
Grow a pair!.....

Don't make me laugh....

Ye who has to get a pass-out for a Saturday, and you are not even married.

That's right Brian, I at the stage after total freedom but before the stage where one's balls are actually kept in her handbag.

What are Louis Vuitton lining purses with these days Brian?

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Originally posted by Claret_Dabbler:

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Originally posted by Ghubert:
Grow a pair!.....

Don't make me laugh....

Ye who has to get a pass-out for a Saturday, and you are not even married.

A pass for Saturdays?!?!?!? You are kidding mate...

He has to get special approval to grow excess facial hair...

Although to be fair he did have the balls to leave a decapitated fallow buck on his mums kitchen table at midnight with a note on it that no one was to touch it until he woke up!!

There's a fine line between balls and recklesness though.

K

That was a good one,

I have my balls in a safe place,



in my fiancees purse


/Chris

George has found a new lease of life hanging out with the birds:

Davie,

I'd hate to contemplate what else you do with "lesser Trophies"; a Roe Deer Buck of that quality is a real Monster in our Lease; (that one superior Hat-Rack quality IMO).

Dave,

What's with Rosies' burning cheeks?

Is she Alices sister?

K

Gerry:
"Er Indoors" won't allow "those gruesome trophies in the house" so I put them in the garden and allotment to put the juju up any intruders and hang stuff from.
However, its not all bad, she will happily cook and eat almost any game, wild fruit or veg and rather less happily clean up the kitchen after I've skinned a few rabbits or plucked and drawn a few pheasants.
Yes, he was a nice buck and I've been out looking for his sons recently.

Kiri: Was that Dallas Alice or Ghubert's Slack Alice?

Make some knife handles of them.

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Originally posted by Trapper Dave:


Kiri: Was that Dallas Alice or Ghubert's Slack Alice?

(Will make the joke pending checks on Dallas Alice being the one I think and not some favourite aunt)

I suppose you have to be brutal with yourself.

Keep the best and skip the rest.

Keep golds, malforms and chuck the rest. You have to be brutal if you stalk a lot, I even chuck bronzes etc.

If they're big then take a saw to the pedicles, join the 2 with a piece of string and either hang from a peg in the garage or chuck in a box.

Don't chuck heads in the field - bad practice.

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Originally posted by Ghubert:

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Originally posted by Trapper Dave:


Kiri: Was that Dallas Alice or Ghubert's Slack Alice?

(Will make the joke pending checks on Dallas Alice being the one I think and not some favourite aunt)

A character in a song by Little Feat back in the 70's. Listen to them, if only for the bottleneck guitar....