Got my mount back. How does it look?
05-04-2009 | 12:26 PM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Iowa
RE: Got my mount back. How does it look?
Nice buck....but poor mount. I hope you didn't pay much for it. I'm only going to point this out because you asked for it. If you didn't ask, I would have ignored it.
The ears are part of the biggest problem with this mount. The ears themselves are very unnatural looking. Everything from the shape of the ear to the position. When a deers ears are in this position, the top actually rotates a bit forward. An easy way to tell is picture the deer standing in the rain....in this position, he will end up with an ear full of rain....and that shouldn't happen. The ear shape it's self is off as well. Instead of using a quality product that replicates the shape of the ear, he more-than-likely put bondo or autobody putty in the ear resulting to an unnatural looking ear. The ears are located too far down the neck, they needto be pushed up almost tight to the antler burrs. The ear butts (the muscle at the base of the ear) are lacking form. And the junction from the ears to the ear butts look kinked.
The eyes shape is off, and the deer does look like he is ready to get hit by a car. His eye lashes are WAY out of wack. This mixed with a poor quality glass eye results to a poor mount.
The nose.....boy, I don't even know where to start.First off, it is crooked, too black, and cracking. The nose pad has many many little nodules on them....the taxidermist looks like he only recreated about 1/4 of them. When these nodules are recreated...the taxidermist should use the original nodules as a guide, this guy looks like he put the nodules where ever he feels. The paint job is absolutely terrible. A deers nose pad is a light fleshy color toward the bottom, but this guy looks like he flat out painted it white. It should be fleshy fading into the dark nose pad. There is not fading/blending colors here, there is a dominant line between the white and black color. The lip line looks absolutely terrible.
I hope you didn't pay much for this mount. If so, I would definately do your homework before you shoot another nice buck. This is really a shame too because this deer has an awesome cape....dark face and a light double throat patch. Finding a replacement cape for this buck would be very hard...and expensive. Also, it is taxidermist like this that ruin it for the rest of us. This is almost a disrespect to the animal. A taxidermist should take his work seriously and try everything he can to deliver a like-like mount. In doing so, he should use reference photos from live deer to compare reference his work to. I'm not saying I'm a master taxidermist by any means, but I truely think my 2nd or 3rd mount turned out better than this. Below is a link to my website if you would like to compare. PM me with any questions you may have.
PS - nice buck.
The ears are part of the biggest problem with this mount. The ears themselves are very unnatural looking. Everything from the shape of the ear to the position. When a deers ears are in this position, the top actually rotates a bit forward. An easy way to tell is picture the deer standing in the rain....in this position, he will end up with an ear full of rain....and that shouldn't happen. The ear shape it's self is off as well. Instead of using a quality product that replicates the shape of the ear, he more-than-likely put bondo or autobody putty in the ear resulting to an unnatural looking ear. The ears are located too far down the neck, they needto be pushed up almost tight to the antler burrs. The ear butts (the muscle at the base of the ear) are lacking form. And the junction from the ears to the ear butts look kinked.
The eyes shape is off, and the deer does look like he is ready to get hit by a car. His eye lashes are WAY out of wack. This mixed with a poor quality glass eye results to a poor mount.
The nose.....boy, I don't even know where to start.First off, it is crooked, too black, and cracking. The nose pad has many many little nodules on them....the taxidermist looks like he only recreated about 1/4 of them. When these nodules are recreated...the taxidermist should use the original nodules as a guide, this guy looks like he put the nodules where ever he feels. The paint job is absolutely terrible. A deers nose pad is a light fleshy color toward the bottom, but this guy looks like he flat out painted it white. It should be fleshy fading into the dark nose pad. There is not fading/blending colors here, there is a dominant line between the white and black color. The lip line looks absolutely terrible.
I hope you didn't pay much for this mount. If so, I would definately do your homework before you shoot another nice buck. This is really a shame too because this deer has an awesome cape....dark face and a light double throat patch. Finding a replacement cape for this buck would be very hard...and expensive. Also, it is taxidermist like this that ruin it for the rest of us. This is almost a disrespect to the animal. A taxidermist should take his work seriously and try everything he can to deliver a like-like mount. In doing so, he should use reference photos from live deer to compare reference his work to. I'm not saying I'm a master taxidermist by any means, but I truely think my 2nd or 3rd mount turned out better than this. Below is a link to my website if you would like to compare. PM me with any questions you may have.
PS - nice buck.
05-06-2009 | 12:49 PM
#23
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 102
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From: Washington
RE: Got my mount back. How does it look?
I agree with zubba about many things but mostly the nose. Looks to me as though the taxidermist only did 1/4 of the nose bumps as well so it's pretty noticeable...
Not a very good mount to someone who notices those types of things, but it is by all means a great buck.
When you ask people to analyze a mount, even if its great, the camera angles and the fact that you have people looking for errors creates problems. If it was a great mount, someone would find a problem with it.
Next buck, go to a different taxidermist, but don't read too much into all the negativity here, you shot a fantastic buck and should by no means belittle it because of an imperfect mount.
Congrats again!
Not a very good mount to someone who notices those types of things, but it is by all means a great buck.
When you ask people to analyze a mount, even if its great, the camera angles and the fact that you have people looking for errors creates problems. If it was a great mount, someone would find a problem with it.
Next buck, go to a different taxidermist, but don't read too much into all the negativity here, you shot a fantastic buck and should by no means belittle it because of an imperfect mount.
Congrats again!
