Flea market Mule Deer
 

I thought some of you might like to see a mule deer I picked up at a flea mkt. It was shot in Colorado in 1938

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WOW!
Please don't think I'm foolish for asking, but what does something like that go for?
I guess I'm wondering if you were lucky to be in the right place - at the right time and didn't have to give an arm and a leg for it?!!

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I would buy a cape off the internet and have him remounted. NICE FIND!

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Expensive.... if the guy knew what he had

Some old lady cleaning out her basement.... a steal I'm sure.

Very nice!

My taxidermist years ago was trying to sell a big brown bear mount/rug I can't remember, just know it was in the top 10 BC or something, and I think wanted like 10-15k for it.

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holy crap. thats huge! Nice find? What'd ya pay if you don't mind us asking?
-Jake

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It was not cheap, I think I got robbed, I had to give $325 for it.. LOL.. I have the taxidermist getting me a cape for it and will have it redone. It had a tag on the back from the originaltaxidermist and the harvest tag with the hunters name.. It makes the BC book all time at 240"+.. The person I got it from bought the house and this was hanging in the barn and had no interest in it..

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I would have guessed that it would have scored higher than 240, dang thing is huge. I don't know if I would remount the deer or not, that old boy has been around for a long time like that, maybe a good cleaning would suffice.....

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that thing is freaking huge!!!!!!! i wanna get me one of those

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That is awesome definately worth the price

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ya $325 for a BC muley, I think the going rate for one of those is quite a bit more...

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WOW: Congrats!

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That's a great find! I wouldn't remount it though.

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I have had it since last summer and I was going back and forth about remounting it, I tried to clean it up and it didn't look much better so I decided to have it redone. I went to the taxidermist and had them take it apart while I was there to see what it was made of and too make sure the skull plate was not cut or broke. We found the mount to be made out of cardboard. I was thinking it would have been newspaper or wood and cement ..

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Nice find! I rescued a nice 5X5 muley from a flea market as well. He was laying under a table, gathering dust.He was much too nice to deserve such an ignonimous fate... Scores about 180, and I paid $100 for it. I'll post a pic later...

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Here's the muley I rescued:

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Nice buck .. Great mass

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Cool find. Right place, right time. I'd love to get one of those.
Chris

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real nice rack