To mount, or not to mount?
09-13-2007, 05:49 AM
#31
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
I mounted a couple earlier in my bowhunting but don't anymore. My biggest deer are not mounted. I just cut off the horns and hang them on a nail in the garage or put them on a plaque or something. Many just get wedged in a tree crotch so I can watch the squirrels work out on them. They'll almost eat a whole set in a year or so..
09-13-2007, 05:59 AM
#32
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2007
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 957
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
Too expensive? Do you know how much time and detail a "True" taxidermist puts into his mounts?
The one reason I don't do it is b/c mine would be way too "personal". I would spend way too much time and detail in them that would eat up all my profits.
(((IMO)))
This is what I don't get when it comes to the people who say its too expensive. You pay hunderds if not thousands of dollars a year to hunt. This money goes towards the hopes of getting a buck of that caliber. Then when you finally do get one. You don't mount it? Come on. Whats a few hundred dollars to finish up the "journey"?
The one reason I don't do it is b/c mine would be way too "personal". I would spend way too much time and detail in them that would eat up all my profits.
(((IMO)))
This is what I don't get when it comes to the people who say its too expensive. You pay hunderds if not thousands of dollars a year to hunt. This money goes towards the hopes of getting a buck of that caliber. Then when you finally do get one. You don't mount it? Come on. Whats a few hundred dollars to finish up the "journey"?
09-13-2007, 06:27 AM
#33
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Shawnee, KS
Posts: 131
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
I would only mount one if it is bigger than the ones I've got. I always save the racks and have them done though. They are fantastic, beautiful creatures and I truly enjoy looking at simple rack mounts as much as a full head mount.
09-13-2007, 06:37 AM
#34
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location:
Posts: 13,082
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
TFOX, that is exactly what I'm saying. I would do a European, or skull cap.....but not a shoulder. Not that I don't like it, not that I don't think it's cool......Just can't justify the money.
StrutnTom, I'm not saying the Taxi doesn't deserve to get that much for it...Quite to the contrary.......I'm just not paying it is all.
StrutnTom, I'm not saying the Taxi doesn't deserve to get that much for it...Quite to the contrary.......I'm just not paying it is all.
09-13-2007, 06:57 AM
#35
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 4,679
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
I only have one buck that I wish I would have mounted, and that is because I would like to preserve the memory of that hunt......he really isn't all that big. Someday I will get him mounted though. In the future, I can see myself getting deer mounted but they are going to have to be some really good deer for this.
09-13-2007, 07:12 AM
#36
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 216
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
I've never had one mounted, and probably never will. Okay, maybe. It might just be that all I ever shoot are scrawny-assed forks and six-points!!
Seriously -- my trophys are all skull caps or antler mounts. Don't have any heads mounted.
Seriously -- my trophys are all skull caps or antler mounts. Don't have any heads mounted.
Big $$$
09-13-2007, 07:23 AM
#38
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location:
Posts: 1,394
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
I don’t mount them either. I’m not against it, but I don’t like them enough to spend the cash on them. Besides that, my wife is into décor, and the mounts wouldn’t go over well in the house. I may mount my kids first bucks, but haven’t really decided.
I like to boil their heads like a euro mount, but I don’t hang them on the wall. I like to hold them and look at them and remember the hunts. I think they look cooler than mounts, they’re a 100% real. And a skull with antlers has a certain appeal to me. Guess I’m a headhunter.
I like to boil their heads like a euro mount, but I don’t hang them on the wall. I like to hold them and look at them and remember the hunts. I think they look cooler than mounts, they’re a 100% real. And a skull with antlers has a certain appeal to me. Guess I’m a headhunter.
09-13-2007, 07:30 AM
#40
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Michigan/Ohio
Posts: 11,682
RE: To mount, or not to mount?
ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr
I'm just wondering, how many guys DON'T get their deer mounted? I mean, even if it's a really nice one, would you not?
Personally, for me......I won't. I simply can't justify that kind of money. Now, I may do some kind of skull cap mount or something....you know, those ones with just the antlers mounted on a plaque.....
Don't get me wrong, I love looking at deer mounts. I think they look really awesome....I just wouldn't myself, that's all.....Too expensive IMO...
I'm just wondering, how many guys DON'T get their deer mounted? I mean, even if it's a really nice one, would you not?
Personally, for me......I won't. I simply can't justify that kind of money. Now, I may do some kind of skull cap mount or something....you know, those ones with just the antlers mounted on a plaque.....
Don't get me wrong, I love looking at deer mounts. I think they look really awesome....I just wouldn't myself, that's all.....Too expensive IMO...
One of my biggest regrets is not getting some of my first big deer mounted.
My first two big bucks are rattling antlers[:'(], I have 3 more rotting in the barn. To far gone to fix[X(], mice have nibbled on them.