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Mountain Goat Taxidermy

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I'm one of the few lucky ones who pulled a mountain goat tag this year and am heading out at the end of the week for my hunt. Assuming I shoot one, I still don't know what I'd like to do with it as far as taxidermy goes. For anyone here who has shot one or has a close friend/relative that shot one, what did you do for a mount? Did you like how it turned out or wish you had done something different?

We don't have much extra room in our house and I just don't have a lot of desire to do a full body mount. I don't really want to spend 6-8k on one either. Plus with it still being early in the year and having a nanny tag, I don't know if it will be the best hair.

Just doing a euro mount and a rug would be cool but I'm not even sure where I'd put a rug. Hang it on the wall? Throwing it over a couch wouldn't really work in our house. A nice pedestal mount might be nice.

If anyone has any thoughts or insight, I'm all ears.
 
Here's a thread with some thoughts on the subject.

 
Can you case skin it and hang the pelt from the wall? Goat hair is the trophy and I imagine that an early season nanny is going to have really soft hair.

For the sake of the goat herd, please shoot a nanny without a kid. Mortality for orphaned kids is almost always 100%.
 
Thanks guys for the input and @Oak for that thread link.

@LuketheDog that is pretty sweet! Although I'm not sure I'd even have a place for something like that. That's really cool though.

@Gerald Martin I don't even know what case skinning is. Ha. Will have to google that.
 
I got mine back a few weeks ago, I originally left the hooves on when I skinned it but they didn't have quite the same "cool" factor as bear claws once I laid it out at the taxi's, it will hang on the wall in my little corner of the basement (says my wife)...

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Looks great!!
But I can see it now. I would trip over it in the middle of the night and the goat gets it’s revenge.
 
When you have a dead mount done, make sure the taxidermist drops the ears and makes the eyes cloudy. Otherwise it looks alive.
 

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