Thinking about this some more, I suppose it is person-dependent, but I would absolutely love to have some mounts/antlers from my ancestors. I've shared this before, but this is a picture of my father, sitting atop a buck shot by my grandfather, in 1950. At that time hunting season in that part of North Dakota was one day or one weekend - I can't remember. Coming back from the war, being broke, he owned no guns. When he as well as others went hunting, they checked guns out from the local American Legion in Grand Forks, ND. Ain't that something? Anyway, he checked this 30-40 Krag out, shot a whitetail buck, and checked it back in. Eventually, he had the opportunity to buy the rifle or win it in a raffle, I can't remember which, but did, and it hangs in my father's shop today.
This whitetail's skull on my wall would absolutely enrich my life.
Maybe my kids and theirs won't feel the same way. I suppose they could generate some cash quick otherwise. But two other possibilities:
My father has gotten into getting metal cutouts of cryptids and hiding them in the sagebrush near our cabin. He gets an absolute kick out of folks driving up the road who stop because they see a silhouette. It'd be pretty funny to put a shoulder mount on a tree just in sight of a county road during hunting season and watch the lunatics unload.
Another would be to just hike them things back into the hills from whence they came and stuff them into trees. I stop at this tree every couple years when I make it back into this country, and wonder how long it has been there. Be pretty cool if it were a big bull elk.
