The truth is, I'm running out of room fast, and I'm way behind on getting trophies finished as complete mounts, so I have a lot of capes, skulls, horns, etc. in storage. I put the hunting ahead of the taxidermy, always, but I still get mounts done, and they trickle in at a slow but steady pace. This week, I just received a finished Cape buffalo skull mount, plus another zebra rug and a hartebeest skull mount.
My wife and I are in the habit of giving zebra rugs as gifts to non-hunting friends and business associates, and that zebra rug that I just received will be presented at Christmas to some very good friends of ours. This practice furnishes sufficient excuse to shoot as many zebras as are allowed on license, and I love to hunt them anyway!
We're also converting a large room in our house into another trophy room, and I plan to work on that project this winter. At some point, I'll quit putting up trophy mounts altogether.
In many ways, photos make the best trophies, and I've got a lot of those up, and I have a local frame shop that sends out my photos to a special company that laminates and mounts them on hardwood boards. For hunting pictures, I prefer this to traditional framed and matted photos in every respect.
AD
Allen,
When get a chance, could you post pictures of the photos mounted on the hardwood boards?
