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What is your shoulder mount criteria?
MADMAX:
--- Quote from: Feathernfurr on September 26, 2024, 12:23:10 PM ---Took me 25 years from the first deer until I shoulder mounted one so I get totally understand! Cool to see everyone’s different views on it. Have always thought it would be cool to have a museum that collects taxidermy from people who inherit it. Makes me think I should have written accounts of the hunts that go with skulls/mounts so my future kids/grandkids can know the stories and the significance.
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My kids asked me for that. I made 3 x 5 cards stuck in behind all my mounts and skulls on what I could remember and the years
Feathernfurr:
--- Quote from: huntnnw on September 25, 2024, 04:36:19 PM ---165-170 plus for whitetails unless something very unique. Muleys are 180” plus unless like whitetails something unique like a 30” wide 2pt etc. elk 340 plus
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I had to revisit your trail cam thread for the year, the 165-170” for whitetails makes sense 😂
BlackRiverTaxidermy:
Intestine thread. Seems size is the biggest factor when determining a mount worth project…..which is cool, but not on everyone’s list. I think the question/answer is so broad such as a question like ‘what’s your favorite car?’.
I’ve always been in the mindset of having a mount done if it’s memorable or a cool story behind the situation, despite its size. Other factors include, yes, size, but also who you’re with.
We mount up a few does/cows and spikes in here every year for hunters, young and old, that are as proud of that animal as a hunter that took a 130” blacktail…..and that is cool as hell!
While your thread prompts some interesting points (no pun intended), it’s also a hard one to answer or rather, there is no right answer as it’s so person specific.
At the end of the day- I have a few really good bucks/bulls on my own personal wall, but I can tell you the ones I cherish the most are the some of the smaller racked trophies that bring a cool memory of the hunt prior to the release of an arrow or trigger depression of a rifle, who I was with, a crazy bull call-in, or a grueling pack-in/out.
They’re all trophies and all mount worthy!
Ironhead:
For me its just a mature or rare animal that will bring on the memories of the hunt everytime I look at it.
greenhead_killer:
:yeah: I am after mature animals, regardless of score. I’ve got a md I mounted from 2018 that might break 85”. Old old regress buck and the biggest bodied deer I’ve ever shot. Didn’t think twice that it wasn’t going to the taxidermist.
Also as a kid, reading all the horn porn magazines I could, I was always drawn to the Midwest guys and their whitetail/md walls ( the barn pics). I’ve wanted my own ever since I can remember. My wife absolutely hates that I mount so many deer, but you kind of need them to have your own big deer wall!
Will additionally mount any oil species, regardless of size and anything unique. Again, size doesn’t necessarily matter to me. It’s about age/maturity for me. Elk, it better be huge as I don’t care about them. Ha
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