Hadn’t thought about it a whole lot lately, but I guess a big ol buck would have to at least buy me a nice dinner before I would mount him??

I'll play. I've got one shoulder mount hanging up in my office. Nothing spectacular - just a decent 8 point that happened to be my first buck. The rest are euro mounts hanging up above my tools in the garage - a big 4 point, a 4x2 split 6 point, a small basket 8, a wide 7, another standard 8 and a 9 pointer that I shot in Texas. I like the look of skull mounts. For me to get another shoulder mount done it'll have to be a really impressive rack. No set qualifiers...I guess I'll know it when I see it. Good thread.

Edit - My main objective now is to put my son on something with decent headgear. He killed a tall spike last year that we got skull mounted. First antlered rack he can drop, I'll get a shoulder mount done.

I have 10 shoulder mounts in the man cave. Been doing a lot of Europeans for a while. I really like them on barn wood from Stones. It would have to go 150+ or something nontypical for me to do another shoulder. I hope to do several more shoulder mounts! I really enjoy the memories those mounts bring back

He wasn't from Trussville and named Todd was he?

I look at mounts in general as a form of artwork. I absolutely love taxidermy and have all sorts of things mounted. Probably enough to open my own natural history museum lol. I like to occasionally reminisce on the memories, which includes looking at the mounts or pics in an album. I’ve never mounted anything to impress anyone. I’m just amazed at Gods creation and the uniqueness of every individual buck. I’ve never placed my hands on two sets of antlers that were even remotely close to being the same.

It'll need to be a 130" deer for me to mount another one. I've got 4 on the wall from 110- 125" maybe one day I can break the 130 mark.

He'd have to be stranger than this one:



or bigger than this one:

Dang Dave.... What is that base 14 inches... I like strange...