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Re: Got my bobcat mount back
[Re: Claims Rep.]
#137195
06/10/11 04:08 AM
06/10/11 04:08 AM
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Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 25,976
Prattville, Alabama
Skullworks
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 25,976
Prattville, Alabama
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Last edited by Skullworks; 06/10/11 04:08 AM.
"I'm not near as critical about how big they are as I once was. Smiles are more important now! We will grow more deer."
Jimmy G.
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Re: Got my bobcat mount back
[Re: Claims Rep.]
#137210
06/10/11 05:54 AM
06/10/11 05:54 AM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 34
North Alabama
kng
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spike
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spike
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 34
North Alabama
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Would love to put one in my Man Cave... Well I know where you could get one cheap!  Nope.
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Re: Got my bobcat mount back
[Re: kng]
#137492
06/10/11 05:43 PM
06/10/11 05:43 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 15,547
Panhandle Florida
PaschalBD
Used to be TiderBD
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Used to be TiderBD
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 15,547
Panhandle Florida
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"Nice taxidermy piece"... you go boy
A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
USAF Veteran
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Re: Got my bobcat mount back
[Re: kng]
#138105
06/12/11 05:42 PM
06/12/11 05:42 PM
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Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 8,622
Blount County
BamaBart
Panty Wearin' Hunter
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Panty Wearin' Hunter
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 8,622
Blount County
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It looks like it was hit by a truck!
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Re: Got my bobcat mount back
[Re: kng]
#149242
07/12/11 02:36 PM
07/12/11 02:36 PM
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Posts: 2,885
St. Clair County
Big Jack
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 2,885
St. Clair County
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Are you serious. Dam! maybe I could sell some of mine.
"Its a damn weak minded person who can only think of one way to spell a work." Andrew Jackson
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Re: Got my bobcat mount back
[Re: kng]
#149245
07/12/11 02:40 PM
07/12/11 02:40 PM
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Joined: May 2002
Posts: 8,030
Central Alabama
muzziehead
14 point
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14 point
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 8,030
Central Alabama
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I am not sure if selling it to someone is not just as bad as what the taxidermist dit to your mount. I guess they do get to see it first and can always decline to buy it. Which is exactly what I would have done to the taxidermist when you went to pick it up. Just my two cents worth. Glad you were able to get some of your money back.
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Re: Got my bobcat mount back
[Re: kng]
#149467
07/12/11 07:05 PM
07/12/11 07:05 PM
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Posts: 39,451
Marshall County
FurFlyin
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Marshall County
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The email response that I got from the taxidermist was to give him a call. I did and he said that the forms are anatomically correct, and that all he does it mount the eyes after putting some clay around them and paint the nose. He couldn't do anything about the square head. He agreed that the nose color was a little off, and offered to repaint it, but thought, "the cat turned out fairly well".
He indicated that cats are all different and that it is hard to compare a mounted cat to a live one. He said he didn't look at the picture I sent him, but he sounded like he was happy with his result.
He did say that he appreciated my constructive feedback. I gotta throw the BS flag on that. I mounted a number of bobcats back in the day and I would never had asked a customer for money if one had turned out like yours. (Sorry) The forms for the most part ARE anatomically correct, but the problem is that many taxidermists either don't know how to properly measure an animal. The form he used is waaaay too big in the face. It probably matched the length measurement, but didn't match the eye to mouth corner measurement. He should either have ordered a smaller form and made the body longer, or called you and told you that he couldn't get a form like you wanted from his suppliers with the correct measurements. Another problem is that taxidermists are use to rubbing the hide, with the grain of the hair to smooth air bubbles and hide paste under the hides. You don't rub a bobcats face, or it gets flat and stretched out looking. 1 taxidermist out of 100 can mount a life-like cat. Unfortunately there is usually no middle ground on cats. Either look alive, or suck.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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