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non shoulder mounted bucks? I have 3 mounted but, I have several over the years that were not big enough to mount or could not justify the price at the time in my garage that I want to mount on boards. I don't want the regular plaques like can be found in department stores. Just looking for some ideas that I can do myself, without that usual manufactured plaque look!

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I made this out of a piece of barn sideing. I just wraped the skull plates in an old hunter green shirt that I cut up and just screwed it to the plank.

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Here is another one. I had a mounting kit like you buy at the store but replaced the plaque with this instead.

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Bleach the skull and rack and hang in the garage.

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my 9pt I killed last year-


this years 8pt


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I GIVE UP![:@]

Will somebody delete my last 2 post please. thanks

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Bo don't know 'puter.:D:D:([8D]
I'll post it for you Bo

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Me too Bo

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I dont have any pics but a few ideas. First I want to say is that I like buckeyebuckhntr's log round plaque. But why I posted is to share what my grandpa does with his mounts. He had one of his hides tanned into just plain tan leather. It is very soft and plyable. Then he wraps the base of the antlers with it and mounts it. It is in place of the red velvet stuff that you get in the kits and it looks really nice. I am about to take my elk hide in to have in tanned. I guess it takes like 6 months to get done but only costs about a $100 and you could do a bunch of them with only one hide. Just my two cents

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Where is Ami when we need her. She made some beautiful hand made plaques. They were an Indian work of art. Really special.

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Thanks Davidmil and MD. don't know how I got the first one to work, and not the second.[&o]

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Heres a few different plaque mounts (all homemade) , I have a bunch of others but I need to get some updated pics.

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Coug,
Here are some of mine........these are nice because you can set them on end tables etc. nice conversation pieces and they look really nice. Even the wife likes them![:-]

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here is a pic of a mount my grandpa did for me.

mount pic

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That's sweet looking Matt, if you don't mind I think I'm going to borrow your idea...........wish I would've seen the photo before I cut the rack off of my 8 pt. this season. It looks nice and can't say that I've seen a European mount like that before, very nice indeed.

Thanks

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One idea you might want to try.... cut your skull plate out as close to 90 degrees as you can get. clean it REALLY good. Take a plaque of nice pine, attach a small shelf just big enough for the skull plate. Mount the skull plate flush to the 90 degree of the plaque and shelf. Now, get out your little butane or propane torch and lightly scorch the wood and skull plate until you get the color you like. Its really kind on neat looking when your done. By the way, those are some really nice homemade mount jobs guys. Especially like the pedestal european mounts.

Chris