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Your thoughts on what mounts #2757612 11/16/11 01:58 PM
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This year I’m hoping to get a nice buck to mount. I was just wondering what everyone else is doing with their mounts? Thanks guys also tell me why you chose your choice


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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: TX4Ever] #2757622 11/16/11 02:00 PM
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Always did like the traditional shoulder mounts!!!



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shoulder, unless it's smaller than what I already have on the wall, then euro...



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If I could afford it and have room on a wall, shoulder mpunts are a work of art. I think it really looks sharp when 3 or more can be grouped together.



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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: HOF] #2757876 11/16/11 03:10 PM
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Shoulder mount with the backboard...oldschool baby!



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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: Texsun] #2757987 11/16/11 03:40 PM
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For whitetail I just get euros, unless its something really special. But I hunt exotics and alot of birds, so I tend to lean towards shoulder/full body mounts with those. Just dont wanna be cluttered with a bunch of big shoulder mounts for my average whitetails.



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I dont have anything shoulder mounted yet, just because I dont want a house full of them, 1 or 2 will be plenty, and I just havent run accross the right special deer yet, when I do he will get shoulder mounted.

I do alot of european mounts myself for family and friends and myself because I think they look better than sawed off horns.

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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: fitchjr] #2758033 11/16/11 03:51 PM
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The reason I’m asking my first good whitetail I killed 3 years ago and the taxi I took him to get a shoulder mount, a rug made, a woody mounted and 2 plaques made that year I deployed shortly after and now he has disappeared and I don’t have anything I paid for almost $800 worth of work and now I really want a shoulder mount because I still don’t have back my first good one...




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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: TX4Ever] #2758049 11/16/11 03:57 PM
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For starters I get everything that is 8 points plus eruo mounted
Anything bigger than what i have now will be shoulder mounted. Cull bucks\smaller than 8 get skull capped and go in a box.



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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: TX4Ever] #2758074 11/16/11 04:04 PM
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I wish i could just get the antlers back and get it mounted...





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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: Texsun] #2759535 11/16/11 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted By: Texsun
Shoulder mount with the backboard...oldschool baby!

Oh yeah with the feet mounted at the bottom of the board turned up so it holds your gun. Thats classic.


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Kinda depends on the antler size really.


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I shoulder mount if it's bigger than my existing shoulder mount in that species... If not it's a euro. Just don't have enough space for that many full shoulder or pedistal mounts.



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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: dkershen] #2759584 11/16/11 11:11 PM
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they're decoration to me..so whatever might look nice on the wall or something that's a little different.


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I like the wall pedastal mounts



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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: pokerj2] #2759863 11/17/11 12:49 AM
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Who was the taxidermist? I see your in my area, if he was local, I could possibly know him?

As for the question. I think a good shoulder mount is a beautiful thing. My dad has three on his wall, and I just took my ffirst one in to the taxi for a wall pedestal mount. Its my first buckand is a nice 11pt. If I were to get a small avg buck next year, Ill just euro it. I can boil it and bleach it myself, so that wont cost anything but time. My 10yo daughter got her first doe this year and she wanted the tail to put on the wall, we sent the hide to be tanned because she wants to make something out of it, we are making a gun rack with the feet, and she begged me to have the doe head mounted but I just couldnt do that one, lol.


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Re: Your thoughts on what mounts [Re: Nathan at Fork] #2760003 11/17/11 01:32 AM
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my mule deer below i had to have shoulder mounted and now with a mount like that its gonna have to be a special buck for me to shoulder mount. if my 10 yr old would have connected on buck i ended up shooting opening weekend i would have ponied up for the shoulder mount instead of euro tho..


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I will mount anything that walks.


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Originally Posted By: southtexascracker
I will mount anything that walks.


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What is a dipped Euro mount?


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What is a dipped Euro mount?

scratch I don't know confused2 Dipped in paint???


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I will mount anything that walks.


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I am kinda partial to either shoulder or pedestal mounts.



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Shoulder mount for a real trophy. Euro for any other buck over 8. Under 8 I might euro it too, throw it in the backyard or garage


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I do not shoulder mount them anymore so euro is what I do


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