Trophy Room......Finally Finished......Last Pics

Are these the goods you packaged up a couple years ago?
I recall a sea-can or container, and someone playing Tetris, to make it all fit. That be you, yes?

My wife's grandfather had an impressive room. Not even close, in scale to yours.

What is the oldest piece?
 
Yep, that's me.............the oldest mount I have is a pronghorn I shot when I was 19...........now it has seen some country.

Gotta get the kid up and get back at 'er again today...........
 
Impressive. I must say the other thing that keeps coming to mind when I see this is What did all this cost in total? Sorry I am at times a real penny pincher.
 
wce323078 said:
Impressive. I must say the other thing that keeps coming to mind when I see this is What did all this cost in total? Sorry I am at times a real penny pincher.
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I have no idea....and I don't think I want to know. Pretty much all my disposable income and more for the past 40 years...........well except for the guns..............and the cars............and the Bateman collection.
 
Very impressive. The forklift is a handy touch!

It's nice to see a space large enough to display such a wide variety of trophies without looking crowded.

The full mounts have a way of looking "imposing" and providing an "up close and personal" perspective.
 
I think your walls are too light. While the forklift is in there, you should take everything down and repaint a shade darker. LOL
or...

Ring Ring:
" Hola! Pedro's Custom Painting, how can I help you?"
" I have a small room to repaint"
" Sure senor. Size and any obstructions?"
Pause...
" Uuuuuuuhh...Just a small room with a "couple" of wildlife mounts and paintings hanging on the walls. Will have a forklift available"
" Will be there tomorrow senor."

Seriously...your room and trophy collection are simply impressive my friend!

Great thread and pictures!
 
Several jjohn.........both wolves and bears.........I'm short 1 of each, as I lent them to a lodge owner in the Yukon for display in his dining room and he allowed them to get destroyed by squirrels over a winter..........However I have 2 giraffe back skins 1 zebra back skin and one full zebra hide. I also have a muskox hide and gobs of black bears..........

Spank...........I can barely afford the real taxidermy bills........I can't afford jokester taxidermy...........
 
c-fbmi said:
Several jjohn.........both wolves and bears.........I'm short 1 of each, as I lent them to a lodge owner in the Yukon for display in his dining room and he allowed them to get destroyed by squirrels over a winter..........However I have 2 giraffe back skins 1 zebra back skin and one full zebra hide. I also have a muskox hide and gobs of black bears..........

Spank...........I can barely afford the real taxidermy bills........I can't afford jokester taxidermy...........
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Phew....................safes me ask'in the most pertittittnint qwestshun then.................






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I have yet to shoot a mulie worthy of the taxidermy bill..........35 years in the Yukon with no deer to hunt has left me somewhat light on what most would consider the usual wall hanger game. I do have 3 more caribou mounts coming though...........

I did some memory crunching last night and it seems I have another 16 mounts to come yet..........a zebra pedestal mount and full zebra rug, 2 giraffe head/neck floor standing mounts and back skin rugs, 3 caribou shoulder mounts, a grizzly and wolf life mounts, a lion and leopard life mounts, a hippo partial floor mount, puku and mtn reed buck shoulder mounts, croc skin, walrus head mount.

Space is becoming a problem............so is layout.........I guess these would be considered "first world" difficulties............:):)

Not happy with my large ungulate wall..........doesn't look right to me.........any suggestions??????????
 
"Space is becoming a problem"???!!! Holy crap, that's a nice problem to have...especially when this is a brand spanking new trophy room. First world, indeed! :) I'm looking forward to seeing some of those semi-oddball trophies you mentioned; Walrus, semi-floor Hippo, etc.

I know what you mean about the large ungulates, something there is just not right. I think that perhaps putting the Muskox and the Bison way up in the top corners is a mistake. They look like they're just jammed in there as an afterthought, or because there's nowhere else for them to go...you know, sort of the way I hang my paltry few pieces. Of course, I have an excuse, i.e. my entire house pretty much would fit in your trophy room! :)

Maybe a more casual flow of the mounts, rather than the rigid, symmetrical pattern they are in now?

Trophy room Feng Shui...it's very important, especially in the First World...:)
 
c-fbmi said:
Not happy with my large ungulate wall..........doesn't look right to me.........any suggestions??????????
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Take a digital picture of the wall "as is", and shuffle the mounts around to your liking on your computer monitor? Would save forklift fuel...

The room looks amazing, thank you for posting.


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