davidmil,
I have a friend that has shot 21 to 24 P&Ys, I learned a lot from this guy. He never enters them in the book and only has 5 shoulder mounts. Me and another buddy kept urging this guy to get 3 of them mounted, so he did. Man, are they gnarly! The rest of his racks are just cuttoff skull plates, hanging from nails on the walls of his garage! Most of the time when people go to his house for the first time, they almost crap their drawers when they see over 20 "deer of a lifetime" hanging out in the garage with the mice!

On the other hand, I mount almost every mature buck that I kill. I keep them in my rec room in the basement. My choice. If the taxi ever finishes the mounts that I gave him, it will total 15 shoulder mounts of mine, 2 for my son and 1 for the GF. I also have 24 plaque mounted racks. Actually, I've got the racks from every buck I've killed. And a whole mount turkey.

To each his own. Most people think that what I do is extreme, but they're not me. Besides, I have just 1 son and he better have a pretty understanding GF or wife because I'm going to keep mounting the big ones I get! Somebody is going to inherit those bad boys and I'll be sitting where ever I go, laughing like crazy![:-]