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Re: Mount or not ?
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#2360970
01/07/18 04:12 PM
01/07/18 04:12 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,184 alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,184
alabama
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I can't tell you what you should or shouldn't mount.
I've killed over 250 deer and have 23 deer mounts on the wall and two more at the taxidermist. For me it starts at 130" and five years old to mount.
So it will be different for everyone depending on their goals, expectations, and what they have actually killed before.
good luck killing a big one...
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Mount or not ?
[Re: canvasback]
#2360974
01/07/18 04:14 PM
01/07/18 04:14 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 5,517 Land of the free because of th...
mike35549
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 5,517
Land of the free because of th...
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I would say that depends on what you have killed in the past. I try my best to only shoot 4 year old and up deer. I have never killed any real big deer. I do have two that are right around 120 that I got mounted. I won't full mount anything less than 130. But I will skull mount any buck I kill.
If you're gonna be stupid you better be tough.
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Re: Mount or not ?
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#2360992
01/07/18 04:27 PM
01/07/18 04:27 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 6,384 D'Iberville, MS
MS_Hunter
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 6,384
D'Iberville, MS
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If it's a trophy to you, by all means put him on the wall. What he said
In your darkest hour when the demons come, call on me brother and we'll fight them together.
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Re: Mount or not ?
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#2360996
01/07/18 04:28 PM
01/07/18 04:28 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 14,302 ArmPit of the south
DeerNutz0U812_
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 14,302
ArmPit of the south
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Personally...I look for Big Antlers... But you can't eat them horns I've tried Shoot what makes you Happy...I mean, you get 3 and all...
Did you know that Beer Nutz are over a Dollar...and Deer Nutz are under a Buck...
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Re: Mount or not ?
[Re: mike35549]
#2361004
01/07/18 04:33 PM
01/07/18 04:33 PM
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Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 4,968 Mobile,AL/ Baldwin, Al
gatorbait154
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 4,968
Mobile,AL/ Baldwin, Al
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I would say that depends on what you have killed in the past. I try my best to only shoot 4 year old and up deer. I have never killed any real big deer. I do have two that are right around 120 that I got mounted. I won't full mount anything less than 130. But I will skull mount any buck I kill. This
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Re: Mount or not ?
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#2361061
01/07/18 05:13 PM
01/07/18 05:13 PM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 3,860 dothan
eskimo270
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 3,860
dothan
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I haven't killed one big enough to spend the $450 on. I have killed a few that folks said I should have mounted but then I think about that I could buy another gun or mount the deer and I always choose the gun. I guess if I ever killed a true stud then I may choose differently.
Super Predator
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Re: Mount or not ?
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#2361069
01/07/18 05:19 PM
01/07/18 05:19 PM
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 2,783 Owens Xrds
AUwrestler
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 2,783
Owens Xrds
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Shoulder mount 1st mature big buck, mine was a 9 point. Then any deer bigger than that when I think I may never kill a deer that big again. But euro mount anything mature and cut antlers off everything else.
I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore I believe in work, hard work. -George Petrie (1945)
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Re: Mount or not ?
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#2361139
01/07/18 06:29 PM
01/07/18 06:29 PM
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Posts: 18,841 .
ford150man
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 18,841
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I have two nice 8 pointers mounted that I'm very proud of. There are bigger deer mounted but these are special to me. If I mount another deer, it will have to be way bigger than these two.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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Re: Mount or not ?
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01/07/18 07:06 PM
01/07/18 07:06 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,495 Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,495
Guntersville
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Shoulder mount 1st mature big buck, mine was a 9 point. Then any deer bigger than that when I think I may never kill a deer that big again. But euro mount anything mature and cut antlers off everything else. This. Don’t mount a small 8 point just to mount one. I speak from experience. I was 20-something and mounted one because I killed it with a muzzleloader. It’s still a small 8 whether you kill it with a flip. Euro mounts are made for commemorating things like that. I’ve got three 15 to 16 inch bucks mounted (a 7, 8 and 9). It’ll take a golly whopper for me to ever mount another one.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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