The Downside of Being a Lifelong Trophy Hunter......

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Moving............that's the downside.........I have nigh on 100 mounts to pack and move!! You laugh, but it's not funny and it's not fun............Had to buy a 20 foot seacan to house them all for the move........only $3500 but what the hell, it's 100,000 bucks worth of mounts right.......then I have to build shelves in the seacan and it's only 25 degrees here, about 45 degrees in the seacan...........If I were filthy rich, which I ain't cause I hunt, I'd just contract someone to do it for me, but they wouldn't do it right........So now I have 4 days invested in packing up my mounts, I have 31 mounts packed into the first 4 feet of the seacan, you should see me do jigsaw puzzles (photos to follow). I'm absolutely beat and sweating like a #### star...........But I have the first 4 feet done. Now I have to build more shelves and move on to the bigger shoulder mounts, 3 elk, 2 bison, Cape buff, kudu, oryx, 2 caribou, moose, and then there's the life mounts, Altai argali, Marco Polo, Stone sheep, Polar bear, wolf, 1/2 mount Ibex, shoulder mount ibex, 2 life mount turkeys, 2 life mount monitor lizards..........it seems to never end.............If I ever have to move again I'll just shoot myself and let the little wife worry about it !!
It seems that I have no end of friends when it comes to drinking and talking about all my mounts and hunts but when it comes to packing them up I have zero friends.................ain't that the way!!!
 
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Did you fumigate the container first? The wooden floor of the seacan harbours all kinds of moths and beetles. It would take only a matter of a couple weeks for your trophies to be useless.
 
Well its hard to feel "too" sorry for someone who has had more money and opportunity to mount hunted animals than anyone else I have ever known! LOL! Just giving you the gears!

I learned a long time ago, I had to limit my choices as far as mounts go. And it sucks! Just recently I was fortunate to purchase a new home that allows nearly all my mounts into my hobby room. I have been waiting since 1995! Wayyy too long! LOL!

You have been an EXCEPTIONALLY lucky person to even afford the 'ROOM TO STORE' these awesome game animals! Let alone hunt them! Wow, what a collection you must have!

How about showing us some pictures? After reading about your Moose hunting adventures with the argo, I cant imagine some of the other hunts! Great read by the way!


As far as your friends disappearing when you decide to move, I am all to familiar with that scenario! If they have the time and opportunity to help, then they should. Or they aren't really good friends at all!

Good luck with your move, and hopefully your "friends" come to help! hopefully its to a better more exciting place!
 
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Well Doug if I wasn't up to my eye balls with doing chores getting my new homestead set up I would come give you a hand and drive the truck down to Boswell. If it wasn't for good friends helping me I wouldn't have got moved up here as slick as I did. The few mounts that I have I screwed to the inside of large wardrobe boxes. Put plywood on the outside of the box and then screwed through it and the box into the mount plaque. And then made sure they got packed on top when in the truck. They all arrived safe and sound no issues.

The seacan container sounds like a great idea for your herd of beasts. The critical part is getting them all fastened very securely so they can't possibly move the least little bit. You have many gorgeous mounts I hope they all arrive at the new place safe and sound.
 
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Well Doug if I wasn't up to my eye balls with doing chores getting my new homestead set up I would come give you a hand and drive the truck down to Boswell. If it wasn't for good friends helping me I wouldn't have got moved up here as slick as I did. The few mounts that I have I screwed to the inside of large wardrobe boxes. Put plywood on the outside of the box and then screwed through it and the box into the mount plaque. And then made sure they got packed on top when in the truck. They all arrived safe and sound no issues.

The seacan container sounds like a great idea for your herd of beasts. The critical part is getting them all fastened very securely so they can't possibly move the least little bit. You have many gorgeous mounts I hope they all arrive at the new place safe and sound.
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Appreciate the thought Pete, and oh yes they are all screwed down with at least 10 screws each. Watched a professional taxidermist mount 20 mounts in my 6X14 trailer and 5 of them were life mounts, with room to spare, it was a learning experience. To be fair to my friends, I never invited one of them to help. I'm way too miserable to work with anyway so I'll just forge on myself and it will get done in time, and it will be done right!!! I'll get the employees to help with the bigger mounts and life mounts, at least they are getting paid to put up with the abuse..........
 
aWesome problem to have.THe real downside would be not getting out to take more trophies.WOuld love to see the wolf.IT can't be NAshville every night.
 
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Definitely a first-world problem...lol but I do feel your pain....that is a monumental task. Where you headed with them?
 
For those who care, I'm moving to my retirement property on the Kootenay Lake in south central B.C. where my first real trophy room is now complete.........32X50' with a 20' ceiling..........room for all my boys, even my elephant ears !! It is a first world problem, for sure, but it is no less work........
Hoyt, I seriously considered cutting a hole in the top and blowing it full of "peanuts" or ping pong balls............then I thought about the other end of the journey..........Can you imagine the mess when I open the back doors? The neighbors would run me out of the community, there would be styro peanuts all over about a 5 sq mile area down wind......... Wouldn't I be popular...........

Bowie.........That is a rather large wild boar, that I arrowed in Sask..........not Dodged, or Forded, or Chevy'd..........thank you very much!!!

SB..............bite me!!!!!!

dth...........if you search my threads you can view virtually all my mounts and many hunt pics.
 
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OMG. I've only SEEN maybe 15% of the animals you have killed and mounted. You need to be slinging articles for the gun magazines. They need more "Real" hunters and prolific re-loaders to educate the masses. Hope I get to see your collection someday. Just wow. Wish I could help you move just for the sake of helping you move. That looks to be a monumental task. I don't envy THAT amount of work. I have helped dozens and dozens of people move, but never such a fragile collection.
 
What's the process of moving the trailer? Is it already up on a wheeled flatbed?
What if you hit a bump and those shelves collapse down onto the ones below...I don't see upright supports below the horizontal shelves, just fasteners...
Should you fill around the mounts with something like styro peanuts, as per hoytcanon's suggestion?

I'm OCD when it comes to moving the things I love.
Your thread is stressing me out! :) I'm worried about your mounts!
 
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