Got my 06' mulie back from the taxidermist.

[LILIDAHO]

I got my 06' Idaho mule deer back from the taxidermist Christmas eve. I am very happy with it, I think it turned out awsome! I built the pedistal myself, the barn wood came off an old barn ("the red barn") on my great uncles property where I do a lot of my deer hunting (for whitetail). I also included a pic of this years whitetail I got. It was shot up by the Red Barn. What do you think? LIL

 

[AZ402]

The buck looks great. Nice choice of wood on the base as well.........

 

[Wyodeerhunter]

Congrats on the buck! The mount/pedastal looks great!

Did you go off a set of plans for dimensions??? Or did you just figure it out yourself???

 

[Ovis]

Great looking buck. I currently have a mountain goat on a habitat pedestal and a dall sheep at the taxi that will also be on a pedestal. I've searched high and low for the "right" base and think I may just have to build mine as well. What height did you go with on the base?

 

[Gunner46]

Damn nice buck !!

 

[Moosie]

Nice..... truely nice !!!

 

[noharleyyet]

Excellent trifecta. Especially like the stud muley pose. Cool story connecting the muley, pedastal materials & nice whitey 8.

 

[ashersdad]

Very nice mount. That is a beauty of a buck too. Alot of memories to go with that mount.

 

[DutchmanAZ]

Cool mount! Nice job on bagging that one, and the pedestal looks great!

 

[LILIDAHO]

WYDH, I got the basic dimensions off of a pre-made one but most of the pre-made ones are octagon (8 sides) so the side boards are about 5" wide. I wanted to use more of the whole width of the 1x12 barn board so I made mine hex (6 sides) so the sides are about 10.5" wide. I just drew it up on easy cad a program I have on the computer. Then went to building.

Orvis, The dimensions are 30in tall and it is about 19" wide from flat to flat on the hex. This is a picture of one of the pedastals that a guy makes for my taxidermist that gave me the idea for the barn wood. He has made quite of few of these. If you would be interested I could get you in contact with him.

Thanks for all the nice comments guys! LIL

 

[DoLFaN]

Very Nice Deer and pics, I also Like the pedastal mount, I don't think I have ever even saw one, but I like it...

 

[BigHornRam]

Mount looks great and good job on the barnwood pedastal base! I'm making one right now for my Bighorn. It's going to have 3 tapered log legs with a six sided slate inlayed top. Hope it comes out half as good as yours did.

 

[cornfed]

everything looks great ,nice job!

 

[Muleyslyr]

What a great lookin' buck! And a great lookin' pedestal mount. Man that would look good in my trophy room.

 

[TheTone]

Guys this mount is really great looking, pictures really don't do it justice. I do however prefer this picture of it, mainly because I'm in it.

 

[LILIDAHO]

Boy was that a fun day!! LIL

 

[fowladdict]

Great buck....love the cocky "hell yeah" pose. If I ever score on a buck that big I will do my best to duplicate it.

Great mount...congrats on a trophy!

 

[cajuncaz]

I having a muley done and i am looking for a pedestal. would you be interested in building me one. any idea on cost.

 

[ERSS]

Great looking deer, and awesome mount. Between this one and Big Fins antelope, I think I am going to go for a pedestal mount for some critter in the near future.
Looks Very Nice!!

 

[LILIDAHO]

Cajun, That is a one off pedestal the wood came off a barn on some of my familys farm. The guy that does my taxi works regular pedestal builder it would be about $400 with wood (barn wood), 150-200 if you supply the barn wood. I had about 30 hours in to my pedestal it was tough to get all the boards to fit like I wanted 50+ year old boards are not the straitest in the world! LIL