JimW
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How many of you use a taxidermist. or have mounts in your home?
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In memory of Floyd M. Wright; Nov 3 1925 - Oct 8 2007. you were the greatest, I love you Dad.
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Fishhead5
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I'm hung like Einstein and smart as a horse
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The wife won't let me, cracks me up!! I hung up my deer heads and fish in the family room and she said she wasn't going in there ever again........I told her if I would have know that I would have hung them up 10 years earlier. 
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AuntyM
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Looking for a few good fish!
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No selection for "the husband won't let me!" 
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ron1
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too spendy for me as of now, and not only that i have never killed anything that would"ve been worthy of mounting anyways,maybe some day...
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luv2fish
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Laptop!!
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I do, I have, and I will again! Though my next fish mount will be done by you!! Thanks again for the mount for Jackson!
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BorntoFish
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Team Old Phart
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Never shot anything worthy of a mount. As for "trophy" fish caught, I usually wimped out after consideration of the expense [and what I could do with that money] and rationalization of it becoming just another dust-collector. Honestly can live without them as long as I've got my memories and some pics.
That said, I am not againts this sort of display at all and in fact have admired taxidermy mounts in friends' [past and present] homes.
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JimW
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Duck freek
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Quote:
AuntyKracka said:
No selection for "the husband won't let me!"
Hwck tell him no more cookies and see him change his Mind
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In memory of Floyd M. Wright; Nov 3 1925 - Oct 8 2007. you were the greatest, I love you Dad.
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Clipfin
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chum
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I have 10 animals at the Taxidermist now....Just saving money to get them all done.....I would also like to have a Steelhead done. I would like a fiberglass one, not a skin mount. That way we both win.
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ifish365
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i would like to but im not sure how expensive it is. i shot a spike elk with my bow this year. that was my first bull and second elk. i would have liked to european mounted even it. oh well, im two in a row now so maybe i will get a nice bull next year and check you out
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cupo
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cookin' reels and killin' wading boots
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My dad paid to get my first deer mounted. That's the only professional mount I have. We have mounted anters on our own. My dad took four of our most impressive blacktail racks, all from the same area, and mounted them all on a barnboard last year and it's pretty cool.
The only thing I'd like to get in the future is a fish replica.
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This can't be healthy. All this fishing is really messing with my head.
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phirsth20
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Doesnt have to be big. Just a Quality memory. Some of my greatest fights have been midsize fish. All worth mounting. Its the feeling or memory you get when you look at it in your den.
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workin4fishin
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Chromer - I wonder what one looks like up close
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I'm pretty sure my wife is OK with Taxidermy. She keeps telling me to get stuffed.
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Dogfish
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Ultimate Egg Whore
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Hunter's first deer was done as an european mount and it turned out great. I'll post a pick later. I'll probably just stick to those, as I can get it done in a weekend for about $20. If I ever decide to get a full mount, then I can take the euro mount in with a cape. The shoulder mounts for deer and elk just take up too much space for my tastes.
I might get a duck done if I get another pair of Wood Ducks. The first pair I shot was beyond repair after the dog chewed their heads off. Bad Jenna!
If it is a 30+ steelhead, that would be worthy of a reproduction.
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"Give me the anger, fish! Give me the anger!"
Be like Big Stick!
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washingtonmuley
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humpy
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I have mounts and will continue to have them. I have 2 bear rugs(1 kodiak and 1 black),full body mount goat,muley,sitka blacktail, Dad's large whitey he had redone from the early 70's, and several ducks and upland birds. I just started doing my own taxidermy last year and I am in the process of mounting my first dear.
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