rlmx....I bought the gun new in 1994. Even though its "old school" as far as inlines go, its accurate and dependable. I say it "drills and kills" everything I ever aim at

(pain in the butt to clean though! LOL)

Semi....that is a nice buck for sure! Congrats!

I don't care about score, because I know I'll likely never kill one that scores high, unless I move or hunt places where they live. As it is, I just enjoy my hunting....and hunt for the upper end bucks in the area I'm in. I pass alot of small / med bucks every year, and usually only end up shooting does. Once every few years I'll bump into one I feel like shooting. Three years ago I saw one a little bigger than this one during M/L season....and of course I had my bow, and stood there at 45yds. This time I got lucky and made the right choice and had my knight.

I hear that Hunter, and it's pretty much my philosophy too.

I've sat in box stands over food plots and watched deer enough to be able to judge age fairly well - at least the difference between a year and a half old six or eight pointer and one that's two and a half or older. My rule is I will shoot the first six pointer or above that's at least two years old. After that I won't shoot another buck unless he's clearly better than the one I've already taken. I shoot two does a year to put meat in the freezer - three if I haven't taken a buck by the last week of the season.

Our bucks run small, but I'm a happy hunter and have no desire to travel to where the really big boys are. I get just as pumped shooting a doe.

I think it came out great. I want to try one if I get one that will look good. Did you use some kind of kit or what?

rafsob, Cabela's sells the kit to do one yourself, it also comes with a piece of velvet to cover the skull if you want to. Or you can just buy a Plaque and do one yourself. I did one on a nice 8pt and use it to hang one of My Bow's on, it looks good.
The hardest part is getting the skull ready for mounting. I have another good 8pt that's not on a Plaque, it's the full skull and horns and it lays on a table in my Den. It sure Beats paying $450+ for a Full Cheast Mount, I wont do one of those unless it outscores one already hanging on My Wall.
(BP)

For anyone interested, here is an older thread that has a tutorial on how to do a euro mount. I've been doing them for more than 10 years, and do it similar to this. There are lots of ways to do it, and it usually takes a few times to get it down to a science which ever way you go.

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/bowh...an-mounts.html

Nice buck! congrats on the harvest.