Picked up shoulder mount....what do you think
07-09-2006 | 09:10 PM
#15
Giant Nontypical
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From: Darien, IL
RE: Picked up shoulder mount....what do you think
That looks really good. I like when mounts are "dressed up" a bit - like the greenery being eaten. Mind if I ask how much something like that cost?
07-09-2006 | 10:04 PM
#17
Nontypical Buck
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From: Kentucky
RE: Picked up shoulder mount....what do you think
Looks very natural except for the tag on the antlers. Why do some hunters pay a butt load of money to make a deer look alive but they leave a tag on the antlers? Great looking mount otherwise.
07-09-2006 | 11:21 PM
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RE: Picked up shoulder mount....what do you think
kybuckhunter,
That tag is from the taxidermist. He does over 400 whitetail shoulder mounts each yearand puts a tag on each rack so they wont get confussed. As soon as I got home from the taxidermist, I hung him up and snapped some pictures. I have sense taken him down from this spot and hung him in the trophy room, minus the yellow shop tag.
Uncle Matt,
This is the most expensive shoulder mount I've had done, but I plan on having a few more done similar in the years to come. He get's $500 for a standard mount, plus $100 extra because its a wall pedestal, plus $100 extra for the open mouth, plus the ostrich and drift wood. To get the mount done and the deer processed it was over $1,200. But taxidermist down here are some of the most expensive in the country because people down here pay more to hunt and kill deer then people in other areas, so the taxidermist can justify what they charge.
And yes the buck does look "MEAN", you can really see it in person. I told the taxidermist what I wanted and asked him to make it as nice as possible. I asked him to make the bucks eye's look like hes about to get in a fight and/or like another buck is approaching him. In person the buck actually looks like he is looking off to the side as if another buck is walking up from behind.
One of the bucks that I plan on killing this year will get mounted like the buck in the middle of the below picture. I love all the detail and muscle tone of this mount........ (P.S. All three of these deer are mounted on the same pedestal and where all killed by the same guy in a week's time with a bow on the King Ranch)
Picture below...................
That tag is from the taxidermist. He does over 400 whitetail shoulder mounts each yearand puts a tag on each rack so they wont get confussed. As soon as I got home from the taxidermist, I hung him up and snapped some pictures. I have sense taken him down from this spot and hung him in the trophy room, minus the yellow shop tag.
Uncle Matt,
This is the most expensive shoulder mount I've had done, but I plan on having a few more done similar in the years to come. He get's $500 for a standard mount, plus $100 extra because its a wall pedestal, plus $100 extra for the open mouth, plus the ostrich and drift wood. To get the mount done and the deer processed it was over $1,200. But taxidermist down here are some of the most expensive in the country because people down here pay more to hunt and kill deer then people in other areas, so the taxidermist can justify what they charge.
And yes the buck does look "MEAN", you can really see it in person. I told the taxidermist what I wanted and asked him to make it as nice as possible. I asked him to make the bucks eye's look like hes about to get in a fight and/or like another buck is approaching him. In person the buck actually looks like he is looking off to the side as if another buck is walking up from behind.
One of the bucks that I plan on killing this year will get mounted like the buck in the middle of the below picture. I love all the detail and muscle tone of this mount........ (P.S. All three of these deer are mounted on the same pedestal and where all killed by the same guy in a week's time with a bow on the King Ranch)
Picture below...................
