Let's see your trophy room

[Buckblaster]

My trophy room includes 4 muleys, 2 whitetails, 1 elk, 1 desert bighorn sheep skull from AZ and numerous sheds.  I'm always trying to upgrade each year by replacing the smaller ones with bigger ones.

[Craig]

Here are a couple pictures of half my room.



here is my blacktail. I have a couple more deer but i need to upload pictures still.

[boneaddict]

My trophy room has been desicrated with a sewing machine.  I think its time to threaten to put a mount in the bathroom.  I love the commercial where there is a deer head hanging in the shower.

Cool rooms guys...

My dream room is actually a building with a bar in it and pool table, a big TV etc.  Sort of like an entertaining room with a fireplace.  I'd like to have my mounts and eventually my Dads hanging in there.  Antlers everywhere, maybe a bar sign or two.  I then imagine throwing end of the year hunting parties and inviting a bunch of hunt-washington folks.

[Kent Hunter]

Here is my room. The whitetails are from WA, ID and MT. The bears are from WA and B.C. The blacktail and the mulies are all from WA.

[jackelope]

i'll be there, bone...name the day and time.
my trophy room would just be a picture of my garage with some small antlers, some turkey feathers and a couple moose sheds...not much.
 

[boneaddict]

you had my sympathy jackelope until you mentioned moose sheds. 
I chose to do PVC instead of heading up to Colville yesterday.

Cools room KH...whats the story behind ole one horn.  I just about anchored a buck like that year before last until he turned and looked at me.  I then got to watch him give a to a doe.  His antler was broke off just above the base.  Dang that had to hurt.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Love the Deer with only one side of his rack.  Whatis the story behind that.  I have never had any one bring me a deer with only one side.

[Kent Hunter]

I was doing a drop camp in the Manson unit and I had shot the deer on the last day of the hunt. That unit is VERY steep and rugged. I had a difficult shot quatering away down hill and managed to shoot the antler off on my first shot. I dropped him with my second shot and then had to hurry to get him gutted and close enough to camp to get the horses to him when the packer showed up early the next morning to pack us out. I looked around for the antler for as long as I could. It was tough to look for as the buck rolled down hill approx 4 to 5 hundred yards after I dropped him. He measured 15 1/2 inches from the middle of his skull to the inside of his one remaining antler. This would have made him over 30 inches if I hadn't whacked his other antler. I just had to get him mounted. I'm not sorry that I did. He gives me lots of memories every time I look at him.

[boneaddict]

He's a dandy for sure.  Thanks for the story.  I'd have mounted him for sure.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Kent,

That is awsome.  Lot of people don't know this but you can actually have sheds mounted.  I fasten them to a cast skull plate and mount as normal.  

One of these days I am going to mount a set of sheds.  I am going to have a 2 1/2 - 3 foot floor pedestal made with a flat base on top.  Going to put a little habitat on top and mount the deer with one horn on his head and one on the base below it.  Like he just dropped it.  The deer will be looking down at the shed.  

I bought a set of 170" Mule Deer sheds and a set of 132" Columbia Blacktail Deer Sheds.  I am probably going to use the blacktail sheds.  

I am looking for a bigger set of Columbia Blacktail Sheds (matched set).  Looking for 140 Class and up.  Will also take a rack on the skull plate.  Don't want a Bench leg!

[boneaddict]

I've had the same idea.  Radically cool minds think alike.  I've mounted a set of elk sheds and also a set of muley/ two point antlers that I have history with.  When the finish work is done, we'll get some pictures.  I stained the two point antlers and am EXTREMELY happpy with the job.  You can't tell its not natural.  I detest stained antlers. 

[Buckblaster]

I've thought about having my matched set of moose sheds mounted on a skull for a euro mount.  The local taxidermist says he can mount them without anyone noticing that they were mounted that way.  It might look cool.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Buckblaster,

If your taxidermist is good than he can do it.  The heavier the horns the more supposrt they need. 

[boneaddict]

The fake skulls they are coming out with are amazingly realistic.  I've seen a couple deer and an elk, and they are quite impressive. If you are real creative you can have one moose done and have the antlers change out with the square pens inserted into them for removable antlers.  I was going to do that with my extra shiras cape, but I ran out of steam.  PLUS the trophy barn isn't done, and it was pretty hard to justify another full moose mount in my home.  heheheheheheeeee

[jackelope]

blaster...if i could have found the other side to my bigger one, i would have done that in a heartbeat. that would be cool as could be.
there was a guy on MM that was selling repro skulls for deer and elk, but i never saw mention made of a moose skull, although i'm sure they are around.

I've thought about having my matched set of moose sheds mounted on a skull for a euro mount.  The local taxidermist says he can mount them without anyone noticing that they were mounted that way.  It might look cool.