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Ya'll ever wonder what's gonna happen to all of your mounted deer heads/skull mounts/racks/other taxidermy?
I have several shoulder mounts/several dozen skull mounts & dozens of deer racks/a black bear/wood duck/etc.
I really enjoy looking at them on the wall. It brings back the hunt in full color with all the memories for me.
BUT....these things don't generate those feelings for anyone else....not even our children. They are not gonna hang them up in their homes when you die. Don't even kid yourself...it won't happen.
Maybe some of mine will end up in a BassPro shop or something where someone can see them.
No one else will care...trust me.
Maybe in your situation but when my dad passes me and my brother will take our picks and whatever his other grandkids don't want my daughter will take.
He gave her a javelina rug the other day, already on her wall
Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: BTLowry]
#8186139 08/01/2409:11 AM08/01/2409:11 AM
Ya'll ever wonder what's gonna happen to all of your mounted deer heads/skull mounts/racks/other taxidermy?
I have several shoulder mounts/several dozen skull mounts & dozens of deer racks/a black bear/wood duck/etc.
I really enjoy looking at them on the wall. It brings back the hunt in full color with all the memories for me.
BUT....these things don't generate those feelings for anyone else....not even our children. They are not gonna hang them up in their homes when you die. Don't even kid yourself...it won't happen.
Maybe some of mine will end up in a BassPro shop or something where someone can see them.
No one else will care...trust me.
Maybe in your situation but when my dad passes me and my brother will take our picks and whatever his other grandkids don't want my daughter will take.
He gave her a javelina rug the other day, already on her wall
Your fortunate and blessed. My lifetime collection (kids aint got a big enough wall for all of it) will most likely end up in a landfill.
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Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: bucksnbears]
#8186143 08/01/2409:19 AM08/01/2409:19 AM
I think ALL men keep things or have things that are sentimental whether it’s a “stump” or an old dog collar. Heck, I’ve got a few rocks that I collected and can tell you in great detail where I was and what I was doing when I found them. It’s sorta crazy that a rock can illicit a memory from 40 years ago, yet I couldn’t tell you what I did at work 3 days ago.
Last edited by Wanna Be; 08/01/2409:39 AM.
Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: bucksnbears]
#8186158 08/01/2409:45 AM08/01/2409:45 AM
Hey Swamp, just set your trophies out by the drive or even along the road. I think Smash has a sixth sense for roadkill stuff and she will down to get it, lol.
Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: bucksnbears]
#8186172 08/01/2410:23 AM08/01/2410:23 AM
All those mounts will be trashed. I had a taxidermist friend of mine get lung cancer. Before he died he gave a lot of his stuff away. Whatever he didn't give away went into the trash after he died. I don't do mounts anymore, waste of money. Same thing will happen with all the military stuff I got over 38 years. Means nothing to anyone but me and my wife. She was with me for 35 of those years. For some reason she's still with me!
Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: bucksnbears]
#8186184 08/01/2410:42 AM08/01/2410:42 AM
You think those mounts are trash ?. Put them on internet for sell. These rich city folk or even restaurants want things like that. You do know you can sell deer antlers. Sell the crap out anything you won't use and then spend the money. Only live once........
Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: bucksnbears]
#8186200 08/01/2411:02 AM08/01/2411:02 AM
Guessing most of us have. I've had this stump right on the edge of my drive coming to my cabin. I cut the tree down bout 14 years ago but never got rid of the stump. Ugly as it was, I left it. Over the years, it had become a place my dogs (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) on every morning, a place I leaned my hoes/ rakes/ shovels against, put bird seed on and and even a few flower pots. have had a Walmart cheap solar light stuck in it for years. Have 4 great dogs buried close by.
Knowing some day, it would have to go. Inspection this eve shown it was getting very rotten and was infested with ants. Never thought I'd be sad to burn a tree stump but I'm typing this while drinking a beer and watching an old (buddy) dissappear.
That is a very unusual looking stump. I can see where you would hate to get rid of it. Bummer!
Got a photo from a speeding camera in the mail. I immediately sent it back - way too expensive and really poor quality.
Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: bucksnbears]
#8186207 08/01/2411:16 AM08/01/2411:16 AM
Hey Swamp, just set your trophies out by the drive or even along the road. I think Smash has a sixth sense for roadkill stuff and she will down to get it, lol.
Lol, I was thinking that also!
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Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: Yukon John]
#8186302 08/01/2401:27 PM08/01/2401:27 PM
Hey Swamp, just set your trophies out by the drive or even along the road. I think Smash has a sixth sense for roadkill stuff and she will down to get it, lol.
Lol, I was thinking that also!
She better bring a full size pickup truck...
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Re: Ever had something sentimental and dont know why?
[Re: jbyrd63]
#8186322 08/01/2401:48 PM08/01/2401:48 PM
You think those mounts are trash ?. Put them on internet for sell. These rich city folk or even restaurants want things like that. You do know you can sell deer antlers. Sell the crap out anything you won't use and then spend the money. Only live once........
I didn't say they were trash. I said they will be when I die.