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Title: mount crashed down off my wall!
Post by: BULLBLASTER on January 01, 2012, 03:35:33 PM: :'( we have been painting the house and finished up the living/bar room downstairs last friday and put the room back together. while upstairs painting a bedroom we heard a giant crash downstairs. my muley mount had fallen off the wall and broke the antlers off. also tore/broke the capenear the bases of the antlers. >:( this mount has always been weird and wobbly to hang, but i pulled on it and wobbled it around when i hung it making sure it was secure... 4 days later it crfashes down... real bummer. wasnt planning on adding to my taxi bill anymore than the elk and deer euro mounts i am havng done. but now i get to have this deer repaired (if possible) or remounted. the only plus side (if there is one) is that this mount was pretty poor quality and cheap to have mounted. it was my first deer i had mounted and didnt know better.
please make sure that your mounts are secured to the wall very well and you wont end up in my position... sick feeling as this mount is very important to me.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 01, 2012, 03:49:08 PM: Sorry to hear about that.
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Post by: 400out on January 01, 2012, 04:16:10 PM: :bash: :bash: that sucks!
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Post by: buglebuster on January 01, 2012, 04:24:32 PM: Sorry to hear, hope you can get it fixed
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Post by: grunt11B on January 01, 2012, 05:24:35 PM: Dam sorry to hear that...... :sry:
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Post by: bow-n-head on January 01, 2012, 06:08:20 PM: That sucks. My dad had a deer mount fall on a 30 gallon fish tank. Broke the deer's nose and the fish tank :dunno:
I fixed a deer head that had fallen off the wall and broke a hole antler off right at the skull plate.
The one I had come down was my own fault. Didn't get the nail in a stud. The horn put a hole in my laminate floor and the deer's nose put a softball size hole in the drywall. We had been in our new house about 3 months :chuckle: The deer was undamaged luckily. I have knocked a couple off the wall moving stuff around. The last one caught me right in the cheek. The horn went all the way through. Even made the tooth it hit hurt :bdid:
Yea be careful with those mounts. I have heard of guys screwing them to the wall.
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Post by: BULLBLASTER on January 02, 2012, 06:33:24 PM: dropped it off at the taxi today. he said it could be fisted but wont look the same and would be pretty spendy. this was not teh best quality mount to begin with. he still has the cape from my idaho muley so it will be mounted with that.
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Post by: bullseeker on January 02, 2012, 06:37:37 PM: Bummer Chris, next time better get the mount some engineering, sounds heavy. :dunno:
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Post by: BULLBLASTER on January 02, 2012, 06:56:28 PM: Quote from: bullseeker on January 02, 2012, 06:37:37 PM
Bummer Chris, next time better get the mount some engineering, sounds heavy. :dunno:

thinking about 5/8 inch lag bolts or some other giant bolt and nuts and lock washers on the other side of the wall. :dunno:
it sucked watching the taxi cut into the mount today to see what was broke. turns out the mount was even worse than i thought. hide wasnt glued at all to the form.
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Post by: Bean Counter on January 02, 2012, 07:24:25 PM: Quote
.... hide wasnt glued at all to the form.

:yike: Get whatcha pay for I guess? :dunno:

Let us know how it works out. Best wishes.
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Post by: ICEMAN on January 02, 2012, 07:27:21 PM: Bullblaster, toss us a bone here. How did your mount actually fall? Did a nail miss a stud or the mount backing plate fail or ...? Thanks. Sorry to read of the damage!
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Post by: BULLBLASTER on January 02, 2012, 08:28:57 PM: I really have no idea how the mount fell. It was on a screw thatit had been on for a year. I tool it down topaint then replaced it on the same screw. It has always been difficult to hang as the back of the mount is not flat. Uneven against the wall. I guess it wasn't hung secure and vibrations from walking around the upstairs moves it enough eventually and it crashed. At least the cape will still he from a deer that I killed. I am going to email pics to the taxi so that he can get the anlters arranged as close to origional as possible as he will have to use a shed mount in the new mount.
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Post by: ICEMAN on January 02, 2012, 09:28:28 PM: Sounds like just a freak fall then, thought maybe you had a new mount screw or something.

Bummer!!!