Your thoughts on what mounts

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

Always did like the traditional shoulder mounts!!!

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

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.

Shoulder mount with the backboard...oldschool baby!

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.

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.

matt

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...

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.

I wish i could just get the antlers back and get it mounted...

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

Kinda depends on the antler size really.

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.

they're decoration to me..so whatever might look nice on the wall or something that's a little different.

I like the wall pedastal mounts

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.

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..

I will mount anything that walks.

Keep your sexual life to yourself

What is a dipped Euro mount?

I don't know Dipped in paint???

Someones been spending to much time corning senderos lately.

I am kinda partial to either shoulder or pedestal mounts.

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

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

See link for example of camo dipped euro mount

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=285234&highlight=camo+dipped+mount

Yea a dipped euro mount is where they dip the skull in a camo pattern or whatever patterns they have...they can dip anything really. I have seen dipped truck rims and stuff!

I had it done at Ceder Creek Taxidermy outside of Mabank...i tried contacking him multiple times, sent hima a certified letter and reciept just to get it returned to me not opened...i hate not having my mounts and stuff after i have already paid him while i was in Iraq

hey, it gets lonely in the brush country sometimes.

I just cut the antlers off mine. No one in my family enjoys looking at dead animals.