Choosing to memorialize a hunt with taxidermy. Your opinions...

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I would not want to mount something that I had not personally and solely taken.

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^This

That's pretty laughable.

They want it to represent a real deer I guess.

Stores like to brag that they have the"XXX" record whitetail on display etc.

Pay good money for it.

I personally mount game ive taken but for ducks and people who like to hang them for their beauty at work etc, i understand wanting to take a mature one shot and have it mounted

If i am paying to get an animal mounted it's definitely going to be something I shot.

I currently have a full body bobcat mount. It is not as good as xenon's but it's ok. I wish I would have just had the hide tanned since I could actually display that in my house.

My wife (and dog) hate my bobcat mount so it stays in the attic. I do move it around to scare her when she goes up there as a protest.

I don't get ducks. I want to kill any I mount. It makes it more challenging to go to where a particular species is common, shoot one that is mature, and not mangled by a bad shot and then get it mounted.


But on the SD trip I did not keep a cock because I found you could get mounts in perfect condition if you wanted them from trapped and farm raised birds, and could do this much cheaper than normal taxidermy.

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I would not want to mount something that I had not personally and solely taken.

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Pretty much this. And I'll add this: it needs to be something special that I felt was a serious accomplishment for me or a special hunt with friends/family. I would have a hard time mounting something I shot on a hunt that someone else did all the work on, set me up in their stand/blind/whatever. I don't give a shite if someone else does though. it's a free country.

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I used to kill wood ducks all the time when i was younger, but then went a few years without killing them. Was always upset i never got one mounted. Two years ago, my dad and i shot plenty of woodducks over several hunts. But the way the pond was set up, you were basically destroying every duck that landed. I kept trying to find one to mount but everyone j had shot had a broken beak, destroyed wing, etc. my dad shot one on closing day that wasnt beat up. So i used his tk get mounted. If im gonna pay upwards of 400$ to mount a duck, i am gonna use one thats not beat to shite. I did just as much work and put in the same amount of work my dad, and helped him limit out that day. I dont see anything wrong with that.