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My wife killed a good bull this year and is trying to decide how to have it mounted. If you know what form was used on the mount you post please include it. THANKS
 
If you can avoid it, don't turn it on a 90 degree angle. The inside horn becomes very hard to see. It will cost more to have it bugling as well.
 
Tule Elk...thus the tules.
If I should be so lucky as to get a B&C Rocky it will be a similar mount but with golden aspen habitat. And again, if I should get lucky and get a B&C Roosevelt, it will have ferns and moss.

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Here's one I mounted a few years ago. It's a Research form that I modified to have a full brisket.

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This one I did for my son. It's on a Merlin Anderson form.

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This is a Lancaster form sold through Research.

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This is my bull I got this year on the archery hunt in 2012. My girlfriend got it done for me as a surprise for Christmas. It was done by chad draper, owner of blue ridge taxidermy in bluffdale, Utah. He did an excellent job and I am more than happy with it. I won't be taking another animal to anyone else and would recommend him to anyone!
 
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Just picked up my 2011 New Mexico archery bull yesterday. Midwesterner got lucky on a DIY wilderness solo backpack hunt in the high country, 11,800'. Sure makes it easy for meat care when it's like a refrigerator out. Scored 330 gross, 320 net Pope & Young.

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Zim, yea something isn't right with the antlers. They look like the are leaning to the right, and the pedicel is missing. Measure from the eye to the burr on each side, they should be the same. Not too difficult to correct.
 
Ya I think you guys are right. Maybe to prevent rack tip fron hitting wall? The guy told me he had a problem with that on a previous bull. Rack hit way into the wall. Seems the cape would bunch up in front of the pedicals tho, if he shifted forward? I will look closer when I get home tonight.

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Hmmm!...I too thought that it was tilting forward, and perhaps it is but not by much. Notice how the brow tines come out just above the burr and go straight out following the angle of the main beam instead of curving upwards like normally seen.
 
If that taxidermist did that so the antlers wouldn't hit the wall, then you need a new taxidermist. It is hard to get big bulls to clear the wall on most semi-sneaks, and if the customer insists on a semi-sneak then the head should be cut off, and tilted down.
 
LAST EDITED ON Apr-05-13 AT 09:11AM (MST)[p]4000, This is my problem. He asked me what pose I wanted, and I asked for semi-sneak. But I am a hunter, not a taxidermist. Looking back, I feel like he should have known the rack was too big for the form, and discussed the options with me. This never happened. He just blindly ordered it. My second problem with him is once he had the form and saw that no way it would work, he should have picked up the phone and tell me the problem, regardless of blame. No way I would have told him to mount it. If nothing else I'd have paid the $200 for a correct form, them peddled the old one on ebay or something. Now, I see no way of fixing the problem. It looks stupid.

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It is standard practice to have to cut off the heads on pretty much every McKenzie semi-sneak. There should be no upcharge. There are other brands of semi-sneak elk forms out there that don't have the head tilted up like the mckenzie.

Only way to fix it would be to resoak the scalp, remove antlers and reinstall them tilted back, then put a spacer behind the form so it clears the wall. OR...take the head apart, tilt the head down and remount.
 

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