Some Wall Decorations

AS normal --- VERY NICE!!!!

thanks, guys.

no heat from the wife.  she's a good gal !!!

 

k

ran out to my taxidermist's last night.  thanksgiving's bonus time for my company so i wanted to get him some $$$ to get the ball rolling on shoulder mounts for the sika deer and black hawaiian ram gotten on the last nebraska trip.

i also got to pick up a finished mount from him.

i got this european rambouillet / texas dahl hybrid this last january down in oklahoma.  it was a nice ram.  32" curls.  so, fully planning on shoulder mounting him, we caped him up and cut the skull cap to save room for the trip home.

minor mistake.

over the next couple weeks, our friend down in ok got ahold of us and said he could get much larger rambouillet's.  knowing this, i scrapped the idea (and cost) of the shoulder mount.  unfortunately, i'd obviously painted myself into a corner cutting the skull as i had.  in hindsight, i should have kept the head whole for a european mount.  water under the bridge.

so, back in june, i dropped the skull cap off at the tax and asked what he could do? he rumaged through his books for a couple weeks and called me back with his idea.

he'd found this wall pedistal mounting system that was NOT designed for the horns of an exotic ram.  but he thought, with some work, he could make it into something'd unique and look nice.  i told him he had free rein to work it up as he saw fit.

i know he had alot more work into this then what he typically would for a standard european mount but he charged me the same.  i love the guy.  and his work.  he knocked it out of the park     ...     again.

i didn't give him much to work with and what he did surpassed any of my expectations of what i'd be getting back, and by a large margin 

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now     ...     where to hang it ?

also picked up a couple european's.  left one's my 2012 general season mt whitetail.  right's my 2013 general season mt whitetail.

OMG !!!!
that's a very impressive collection.