300stw
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my son with a family buck i dug outta the rafters. gonna have it mounted
Bucks of the past,,,,
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my son with a family buck i dug outta the rafters. gonna have it mounted
MarvB
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That’s a toad!
Nick87
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Wow! Any idea how old it is?
300stw
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1970
noharleyyet
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That's some displacement mass right there...
OntarioHunter
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Looks like it wasn't varnished which was rare for that time. Good! I just finished stripping the yellowed varnish off my brother's big buck shot in 1969. Now I'll have to repaint it which isn't a big deal. I found this bleached dead head while duck hunting outside Columbia Falls the fall of 1965. The buck probably died early in the winter of '64 after the Flathead River flood disaster. Earlier in the season some kid with a .410 shot the skull literally to pieces. Four points were rotted or chewed off. My daughter and I restored it.
antlerradar
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great buck
Elkhunter24
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Great buck!!
Wallydeuce
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I took some really nice bucks as a teenager in southern Utah. A couple close to that one. It never occurred to me to keep them. I'm sick about it now.
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Did you save a cape from another kill? That is the best way. We are having a difficult time with a similar muley project for a client. Buying a cape from another taxidermist or tannery shot and skinned by someone else is always a crap shoot. Just got the second cape for it and I'm not confident it will work. The first tanned cape we bought slipped hair. The tanned cape from my first kudu arrived with a chunk of hair missing from shoulder but photos show it was fine on the ground. Keeping my fingers crossed the cape from second kudu will be okay.
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couple early 90,s bucks from idaho we got
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I bought a rifle from a guy and these horns were in the living room leaning against the coffee table. In the other room was a shoulder mount of a bigger deer.
At least it wasn’t nailed to the front of the garage…
At least it wasn’t nailed to the front of the garage…
When I was a kid, the guy down the street had a rack, that looked very much like that one, hanging in his car port. When I asked about it he told me it was there when he bought the house. I always lusted after those antlers. Those and his daughter who was a year younger than me.
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The cape we ordered was too small. The guy took his deposit back and I didn't complain. Wasted enough money on this job. A fella who had us do an antelope euro a while back has a respectable muley rack and accepted our offer to do a shoulder mount for him pretty much at cost for the materials we have already spent on this debacle. Can cut down this pedestal form and make it look right for that rack.
bowhuntmontana
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I have seen this picture pop up in other places and always assumed the rack was fake/fabricated. I am happy about being wrong. What a giant!
gonhunting247
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Blacktail that my Dad killed with his model 94 30.30 shortly after getting to OR from OK. One of my favorite pics
