What's your minimun for a mount?

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Hello all,

I was thinking what would be my minimum score before I got a whitetail mount. For me I was thinking that it would have to be in the B&C record books before I got one done. My reasoning is just because its dam expensive to get the game heads mounted.

How about you, whats your minimum
 
You asked for opinions.
My opinion is I would never have a deer head mounted.
The European method of whitened skull on a tasteful, shaped board, is a much better way to go.
 
Kinda the same theory as yourself.

Either a B & C or a P & Y, depending how I get em.


CTS said:
Hello all,

I was thinking what would be my minimum score before I got a whitetail mount. For me I was thinking that it would have to be in the B&C record books before I got one done. My reasoning is just because its dam expensive to get the game heads mounted.

How about you, whats your minimum
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I would probably mount any deer that makes our provincial record books (Henry Kelsey). Whitetail would be 165 net typical or 190 net non typical. For mule deer I'm a bit more picky and it would have to net over 200 non-typical or 185 typical before I would do a head mount.
 
A mount is a reminder and reflexion of a hunt. The score is not nearly as important as your memories that the mount brings back to you every time you look at it. As for setting a limit you must achieve before mounting, You are limiting your memories in the future...
 
btridge said:
A mount is a reminder and reflexion of a hunt. The score is not nearly as important as your memories that the mount brings back to you every time you look at it. As for setting a limit you must achieve before mounting, You are limiting your memories in the future...
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Could not agree more. Looking at my den I remember the story/hunt not the tape measure.
 
btridge said:
A mount is a reminder and reflexion of a hunt. The score is not nearly as important as your memories that the mount brings back to you every time you look at it. As for setting a limit you must achieve before mounting, You are limiting your memories in the future...
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I agree. When I shoot a very nice (to me ) deer, I will consider having it mounted. I am not worried about B&C numbers . They may be nice to compare animals, but to me the hunt is also very important as are the memories that go along with it.
 
I couldn't agree more, don't get me wrong here....I still hang the antlers of every deer I shoot. And I still remember every hunt on each one of those. I'm just saying that it would have to be a pretty big deer for me to get mounted because of cost. Size is not the most important thing, filling the freezer is. Just wanted to clarify that...
 
The only head mount I did on a deer went 183 gross but didn't net 160. A friend offered to do it for nothing so it hangs in the reloading room. I did a few plaque mounts on 150-160 nets, now they just go on the growing pile with the others. Someday some of those might get put up, but there are a limit to walls and wife's patience.

A booner would get mounted, as would something super cool. I'll know it when I see it.
 
I could care less about score , i don't hunt for records or recognition etc.... i hunt for me , and me alone , therefore if i like the buck , i'll get him done in whatever way , i have a european mount , i have a skull mount , and i have just racks mounted , and i'm working on last years buck :)
 
H4831 said:
You asked for opinions.
My opinion is I would never have a deer head mounted.
The European method of whitened skull on a tasteful, shaped board, is a much better way to go.
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For the most part, I agree with Bruce. PERHAPS, if I was to get something really exceptional I might go for a good head mount but that's not too likely to happen. This may be why my Daughter once categorized me as a 'deep freeze hunter'.

Hunting in Alberta with my Daughter and Son In Law, my Daughter did up a European mount on my first Alberta Mulie. Not a trophy class animal but a trophy for me nonetheless and one I'll rember for years.

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To be honest, I don't know how scoring works, and I've been hunting for a long time. Only thing I ever wanted to get mounted was a nice buck antelope off my own land. Managed that finally a couple years ago. (no small feat as I'm no land baron, haha)

Other than that, we have a few sets of horns mounted on the wall; dried, screwed to an oak plaque the skull nub covered with tanned deer hide or velvet. Mostly things like everyone's first's. A few of them are big; one or two likely bigger than most I've seen mounted. Myself, I prefer symmetrical over bigger.

Mostly though I just like to be out with family and friends, moreso if it leads to moose roast, elk steak, antelope tenderloin or deer sausage. :)
 
I used to think that having big deer mounted on the wall was what every good hunter needed. The bigger the trophy room the better the hunter so to speak. After putting a couple of heads up and a few horns on plaques I soon came to realize that they took up way too much space ( I don't have a big house ) and the cost of a mounted head is getting up there. ( The cost of a mount could pay for a new gun or bow)

I got rid of some and replaced them with a bulletin board full of pictures. Now if I have a memorable hunt regardless of what kind of animal is taken a picture or two go up on the board. I get to see the people and places involved and that puys a bigger smile on my face rather than a set of horns.

I've got one more set of horns to put up. Those will be my sons first buck. He starts this fall for the first time and maybe I'll be hanging something up. If not there will always be a picture to remember this year:D
 
I have 2 whitetails on my wall & looking for a cape for 1. The one that isn't mounted is a set of sheds from a deer I hunted for 4 years and didn't get. I'll be just as happy to have him up as the others ( maybe even more so ). For me it is a show of respect for the animal, not a trophy. Other than the sheds, I don't know if I'll mount another. Time will tell.
 
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