Well Boys the Sea Cans Arrived in Top Shape

c-fbmi said:
The head just doesn't accurately portray the mass of these beasts. They are like hippos without legs, our largest animal in NA to hunt legally, as a non indigenous person. They of course can hunt whales, we can't.
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Have seen them live.... Simply massive.... The few that I saw were in the 2000 pound (guesstimate) range.... Supposedly they can go 3000 plus... Always like seeing trophy hunting oics of a guy with a rifle standing beside a huge beast.....
 
c-fbmi said:
My sea cans containing all my mounts from Whitehorse arrived yesterday.........everything appears as when I loaded it and I already have my white bear in my trophy room. The other life mounts are too heavy to drag out by my self so I'll enlist some help tomorrow and see what I can get unloaded.
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Yesterday!!?? They haul em with mules? I thought you had them ready to go last summer?
 
c-fbmi said:
Ya me too........that's gonna take some T&E I suspect...........wish I was good on a computer, I'm sure someone who was good at it and had the right program could take photos of all the mounts get them all the right size, enter the wall dimensions and then paste and cut until one had it the way he wanted.
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You could do the poor mans version and assuming you had a picture of all of them, print them off, pin them to a board and move around until you get a layout you think would look good.
 
The layout part is going to be a real ##### to figure out. Still, I wish that I had enough room for my taxidermy so I could bring it home from foster care.
 
I enjoy looking at other's mounts... but I gave up on them years ago... no room to properly display them, and no support to display them if I did have the room... now I just snap a couple pictures and store the memories... the pictures are only for when the memory stops showing up.
 
hoytcanon said:
I enjoy looking at other's mounts... but I gave up on them years ago... no room to properly display them, and no support to display them if I did have the room... now I just snap a couple pictures and store the memories... the pictures are only for when the memory stops showing up.
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Well.... You seem to have found a significant other that supports your gun addiction, as well as your hunting addiction.... I'd give ground on the mounts too...

Unfortunately, I went 0 for 2 in all 3 areas, hence why I no longer have to ask.... It does have its perks.... Lol
 
Superbrad said:
Well.... You seem to have found a significant other that supports your gun addiction, as well as your hunting addiction...
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Two words; "side jobs."

And hunting has been a 29 year battle... from which I have not emerged, nor have I traversed the years unscathed.
 
hoytcanon said:
Two words; "side jobs."

And hunting has been a 29 year battle... from which I have not emerged, nor have I traversed the years unscathed.
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:) .... Well, considering I took courses and doubled my income in 5 years, and still wasn't "allowed", all signs pointed to side job money going into the pot....

Modest living and active pursuit of hobbies isn't a lifestyle for everyone I guess.... Lol
 
c-fbmi said:
sea cans are parked exactly 8 ft apart and I shall build a roof over them and make some extra storage from them.........20X24' no downside there.

Spank........did you not see the daily photos when I packed the sea cans? Well it's just that in reverse..............

So here's the last photo of them being packed.........




And he looked just exactly the same as I unpacked him and put him on my tractor forks and moved him into his new home.............my trophy room.
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Yes I saw the previous thread, I'm just jerking your chain!! ;)
 
Superbrad said:
Have seen them live.... Simply massive.... The few that I saw were in the 2000 pound (guesstimate) range.... Supposedly they can go 3000 plus... Always like seeing trophy hunting oics of a guy with a rifle standing beside a huge beast.....
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The bull I shot would have went over 4000 lbs according to guys I was hunting with.........
 
Superbrad said:
That must have been an incredible sight...
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Actually SB, I was looking at several thousand of them and just trying to pick the biggest............There was a small rock island out in Hudson bay called Walrus Island oddly enough, and it was completely covered in walrus. It seems to me that Walrus don't do anything in singles but are always in groups of 100s to 1000s..............anyway the hard part was trying to find the biggest one on the rock. It was interesting to view that many in one place, went all the way around the island 3 times and glassed every large male walrus and finally decided on the one I harvested. Walrus don't lie around like elk or sheep other wild herd animals...........when they decide en-mass to haul up on an island like that, it looks like a train wreck with thousands of cars laying in all positions on top of one another right side up, up side down with tusks sticking straight up in the air (this is deceptive and makes the tusks look much bigger than they are. Almost fooled me once).........It truly is a sight to behold SB........

Oh ya and it's still raining so no more unpacking today..........worked on the other sea can with hardware in it, not sensitive to rain and moisture.
 
Man... That must have been neat.....honestly speaking, the few I saw were on a tour I took commercially when I was in Gjoa haven..... It was touristy thing, and not a self discovery...... And certainly not "hunting minded".....

$9 for a head of broccoli puts your ambitions of an exotic hunt in your back pocket really quickly when you are on a military salary.....lol

And, back to topic, do you have a "layout" in mind?..... As far as certain species, certain regions, certain timelines?..... It's a problem I would love to have Douglas......
 
c-fbmi said:
It seems to me that Walrus don't do anything in singles but are always in groups of 100s to 1000s..............anyway the hard part was trying to find the biggest one on the rock.
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Douglas... where does one shoot a walrus and with what? How does recovery work with thousands of animals out on the rock island?
 
kamlooky said:
Boy, that white feller looks like he's gasping fer air.
Need to find you a photo Douglas of a shop being built with sea cans.
Saw it today getting some dawgie run gravel.
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Looky, there are a couple of places in Kamloops that sell those cans. They go fairly cheap because most are unreturnable or cost more to return than they are worth.
 
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