Some Favorite African Mounts

LAST EDITED ON Aug-10-11 AT 10:07PM (MST)[p]Thought I'd throw in a couple of my mounted trophies. Just looking at them on the wall brings back a whole flood of memories!

What can you do with a tuskless elephant? I decided to have the entire thing skinned and tanned, then we upholstered a chair and ottoman for me to watch my weekend hunting shows.



The wife worked a ton of overtime to help me afford this one. Just beautiful, and a life size leopard is the only way to go.



Great buffalo mount and really captured the look and muscle structure of a big bull.



My smallest and prettiest mount; a free-standing pedestal that swivels to fit anyplace I'd like to put him.





Everyone feel free to add some of their own trophy room pics for people to see.

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Those are some great pic's; thanks for posting them. You have a great wife, to send you on a leopard hunt.

If you had to choose one favorite animal you hunted, what would it be?

Awesome leopard and that buffalo is a stud. Thanks for sharing.

Eldorado

Those are really nice mounts. I especially like the leopard and bushbuck. That elephant char is great, wish I'd done something like that with my ears.

I think that hunting tuskless ele's is my absolute favorite thing to do. Would do it every year for the rest of my life, if I could afford it. I've hunted a lot of critters in many states and areas, but nothing has thrilled, fascinated, or terrified me as much as elephant hunting. Sneaking in to very close range on a herd of cows has to be the dumbest thing we have come up with yet, outside of bungy jumping!!!!!

Here's another thing I did to add some spice to a guest bedroom. Seems like you always accumulate a lot of backskins and pieces, and they come together in a very nice rug. Have an elephant ear mounted on 5/16" hardboard there one the wall, and a friend who is an artist will paint my Big Three on it sometime.