What happens when you die?

[longbow51]

We have tons of European mounts of deer, elk, caribou, and antelope. Our kids are here now, and they will incorporate them into their decorating scheme. He's a redneck ice fisherman from MN so I trust him.

 

[mtmuley]

The antelope will be forever in the family. Best hunts ever. mtmuley

 

[DFS]

Purging some of the garage shit tomorrow. Some of the cut off antlers cost me a ton of money (for me) - a NM and WY bull. A few others ridiculous work - rifle & archery bulls from the gallatin that beat me down. I don’t have room and they aren’t going in my house, so $17/lb sounds okay..
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Surprised the antler buyer wouldn’t want to keep the nice euros in tact.

 

[X13]

I kept just a single mule deer euro mount from my grandfathers collection. The rest is being donated to a local youth summer camp that's starting a "Wildlife Museum". They get a lot of city kids through there who haven't seen many wild animals outside of squirrels, pigeons, and raccoons.

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

Surprised the antler buyer wouldn’t want to keep the nice euros in tact.

No better feeling than chopping up hard earned bull antlers into dog treats.

 

[DFS]

No better feeling than chopping up hard earned bull antlers into dog treats.

One of the best schemes I have seen was a local meat processor selling decent muley racks. Drop off a 2 point leave with a respectable muley for $200 extra. Nonresident or local dream.

 

[Kaitum]

@Kaitum threw this in my yard on his way out of the Bitterroot. I hung it in my dad's garage while he was on vacation to see how long it would take him to notice.

It's a better life than the one I took with me has, currently whitening each day on the back patio. This one won't get moved again.

 

[Deleted member 52937]

Purging some of the garage shit tomorrow. Some of the cut off antlers cost me a ton of money (for me) - a NM and WY bull. A few others ridiculous work - rifle & archery bulls from the gallatin that beat me down. I don’t have room and they aren’t going in my house, so $17/lb sounds okay..
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Damn, wish I had brought some green cans over and heard a couple stories before those hit the dog chew market!

 

[Khunter]

Solely for the purpose of this discussion here is a current sale of a guys lifetime of hunting memories/taxidermy. Lions tigers and bears oh my. And rhinos etc.

If in need of a standing baboon holding a cocktail tray, give it a laugh look.






https://www.proxibid.com/asp/AuctionsByCompany.asp?ahid=12032

As I euro everything, an easy afternoon with a saw will provide my family with a lifetime supply of dog antler chews after I am gone.

 

[MT_elk]

I tried to convince my taxidermist that the business to be in would be to create mounts that have the ability to switch out horns out on.
Take your new horns, drill them, pin them, pop the old ones off and pop the new ones on the "Interchangeable mount".
He told me I was crazy, but I am telling you I would love to have a mount that I could just pop my new horns on in a few seconds....

Next mount I see for sale online I am going to buy it and try it. Why not?

I got some good horns lying around that I would like to mount but I am too cheap to mount them.

Mallardsx2 - You can actually do this. My taxidermist makes removable antlers in order to get them through the door. These could be switched out to whatever set you want to look at that day!

 

[Mallardsx2]

^^^ I wonder if could make that kit/adapter to an existing mount?

 

[Tradewind]

Mine will be some antlers, a sixteen gauge and a beat up Toyota.

thought you would will the shotgun to @benlamb.
custodian of the snooty

 

[pabearhunter]

In Pa. when you die you can keep voting !

 

[El Jason]

thought you would will the shotgun to @benlamb.
custodian of the snooty

I would but I’m almost guaranteed to outlive Ben. I plan on shooting chukars at 80.

 

[Tradewind]

I would but I’m almost guaranteed to outlive Ben. I plan on shooting chukars at 80.

Taking the 'under' on Lamb...Nice

 

[Big Sky Guy]

Days and years gone by for this ram mount. Someone else snatched the horns already so it’s reduced to a little hide, foam form and glass eyes.

 

[Hem]

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Days and years gone by for this ram mount. Someone else snatched the horns already so it’s reduced to a little hide, foam form and glass eyes.

I take that wood stove first.
The skillet could be a collectible.

 

[Jwill]

Hantavirus has entered the chat.

 

[Nameless Range]

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.