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Not mine but a buddy that started doing taxidermy

I do these on my spare time

I have no mounts. I choose to spend my money on more hunts and ammo.

I like the woody mount.

spoonbill... deffinately... all the way... i wanna make sweet sweet love to it

That's the first spoonie I see mounted I need to kill a good pintail a mallard and a pair of woodie so I can hang em

I did this one for a friend that went to Africa. It was a hoss. I don't really have anything to show a size reference, but I think the uppers were around 11 3/4" measured on the outside.

I did these a few years back. I have others I've done I'll have to look for the pictures.

These were done by someone else for me.

Here are some mounts I took pictures of while at the OR state show a year or two back.

My one and only European mount. I did it last year, and overall it wasn't nearly as much of a pain as I thought it was going to be. And only cost me about $15

The black ducks were killed the year before last and the baldpates on the last day, last year.

When I do skill mounts I charge 80$ without wood and like 25 for the plaque

assateague wrote:My one and only European mount. I did it last year, and overall it wasn't nearly as much of a pain as I thought it was going to be. And only cost me about $15

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if u want to make it alot whiter go to a hair solon store or even walmart u get the beach hair dye and u paint it on there and let it sit over night and wash it off. i got mine from a salon store and it bleaches the hell out of them

This is the only one I have a picture of and my favorite

Ajverret wrote:

assateague wrote:My one and only European mount. I did it last year, and overall it wasn't nearly as much of a pain as I thought it was going to be. And only cost me about $15

buck.JPG

if u want to make it alot whiter go to a hair solon store or even walmart u get the beach hair dye and u paint it on there and let it sit over night and wash it off. i got mine from a salon store and it bleaches the hell out of them

Never thought about that. I used the peroxide 40 from a salon store, but never thought about the bleach.

Yeah I used to use he peroxide but it doesn't hold the bright whit very long the bleach die works awesome

Can I put it on now, or does it have to be "fresh"?

Yeah u shoul, put it on kind of thick and let it sit over night. I never did it on one that has sat for a while but I don't see y it would make a difference

The drake that went with my hen, I gave to my dad as a retirement gift. I'll have to have another done to match her. Have a snow and my sons first duck at the taxi now

Red, that wigeon is badass, I don't shoot many fully plumed ones around here, pintails are always one of my favorites, have one in the freezer with close to a 9" sprig I need to get to the taxi, akong with my bull prairie chicken.

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Thanks. He'a probably the favorite of what I've got done so far. Really anxious to get my snow back. Snows aren't normally a big deal, but I shot this one here in Humboldt and we just don't get snows

You guys have some good looking mounts

I know for you Midwestern folk a blue is no big deal but if you shoot one in California its not to common.

My first cinnemin

I want a cinnamon soo bad. I also want to learn how to taxidermise my own animals.

Bootlipkiller wrote:
I know for you Midwestern folk a blue is no big deal but if you shoot one in California its not to common.

My first cinnemin

cool birdies. Love the blue. Like I said I'm having a snow done. They're not a big deal most places, but this was shot in Humboldt and we just don't get snows here.

And I'm saving a spot on my wall for a cinnie. Shot em before but never had em done.

Red that wigeon is awesome, I also like the sprig. I think I need a sprig at the taxi this year!

I don't have any mounts of my own. Just never got around to saving a bird I guess.

Stickied.

Olly wrote:I don't have any mounts of my own. Just never got around to saving a bird I guess.

Stickied.

We'll get ya a nice bird when you come out with us and after the hunt get jgun buzzed up enough to volunteer doing the taxi work for nothin, he's a sucker like that

@ bootlip that eagle head is a really nice mount. I would not hesitate for one second to pay a premium taxidermist if I ever got one.

And to give an idea to the midwesterners how rare they are in this flyway, a couple seasons ago I took a pic of a flock of ± 4000 snows - 1 blue was in the flock.

3legged_lab wrote:@ bootlip that eagle head is a really nice mount. I would not hesitate for one second to pay a premium taxidermist if I ever got one.

And to give an idea to the midwesterners how rare they are in this flyway, a couple seasons ago I took a pic of a flock of ± 4000 snows - 1 blue was in the flock.

I wish I had some great story about how we got it but I don't.
There is a spot me and my buddy Doug and I shoot Spoonies would take Doug's boat and if things were perfect you could murder the geese. So we head out in the afternoon, get to the spot and the fog rolls in. Thick nasty tule fog and you can maybe see 50 yds. All the sudden ISS and I see this dark goose break thru the fog and we let him have it. He cartwheels down to the opposite creek bank. At this point we both think we have killed a speck and we take the boat over to retrieve it. ISS leaves the boat first and I follow behind him. After a short search I hear "oh sh!t, dude"!!! It's a f'n blue. We get back to the boat and Doug say "who killed it?" ISS looks at me and says I don't know. I look at him and say the same. I told him to take it he told me to take it, after a while of trying to get the other to take it. Finally I agreed to take it because ISS said he couldn't spend the money to get it mounted at the time.

And that's the story of the California blue. No decoys no calling just pass shooting like a redneck.