I don't have a wall like that! That is pretty cool.
I am like the others, I don't particularly care about antlers, except for using them, but occasionally I have taken decent sized racks, not looking for them, though, just the meat. I prefer doe, but a young spike will do fine also. Man, Ga. is the place for meat! I don't know what it is now, but some years back My Dad, a Friend of the family's, and Myself went hunting there, and you could get three bucks, and five does!
Talk about filling your freezer up......
But the most impressive trophy room, I have ever seen was in Montana. My Buddy, also paints (houses and what not) and he was going back to put a few touch ups, on a HUGE log home, that he had stained, and sealed, and the owner, gave him permission to hunt some pheasants, and said I could also. So we got there, and as we are driving up the drive way, I see Pheasants, running across the road, and then I see flocks of ducks, landing in a pond near the house, and more of them, a little ways off, in a bigger lake, and then flocks of pheasants, flying, over the fields of oats. He had about fifty acres. Forty of them planted in oats. Well needless to say, the pheasants were like politicians on a tax dollar!
Anyway, before we got to the main house, there is a standard size house, about a hundred yards, before the main house. When I asked if that was the care takers house, he said no, that is something else, I will show you after I get done with touch ups. So we get to the main house, and I am blown away......there are full body mounts, of Big Horn Sheep, Mountain Goats, and wall mounts of huge Boone and Crockett class elk, and deer, in fact everything in there was Boon and Crockett class, or better! The walls were just covered with these things! So we go past the full body mount Sheep, and go up the stairs, and there are Rhino heads, more Elk, Eland, Moose, Tusks, etc. I am just standing there with my mouth open. This is all in an upstairs room, with a full sized bar! I mean Full sized ! Plus a big kitchen! Well then My Buddy says, come on we will walk down to the smaller house. So we do, and when we walk in inside, I am just speechless! This is not a house, it is his trophy room!!! There on the walls, are warthogs, zebra skins, spears, etc. and on the floor, is a full body mount lion, and against the wall is a fiber glass representation of a mountain, with Oudads, Shamies, Mountain Goats, exotic Sheep, etc. In one of the other rooms, is a wall full of Dik Dik's, and sable, eland,Impala, and Bongos, and all kinds of exotic African, and European animal mounts. I asked my Buddy, what the hell does this guy do for a living? He said he married a very wealthy wife!
Dang she got a sister?!
To give you an idea of the kind of money he has to throw around, he spent eighty thousand dollars, to bid on a sheep hunt in alaska! I could buy a mountain and add a Guide with that kind of money!!! He lives next to a National wild life preserve, for waterfowl. So his ponds, were full of ducks, of all kinds. I think it was in Charlo or that area. Anyway, I have never seen the equal of that place! Not even in Bass Pro ! But like I said, I don't have the amount of antlers that you have. Or anywhere near that. Those are nice! I know these Knappers, are thinking wow, handles.....boppers....flakers......
Thanks for showing them.
Wayne
