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Dennis Hereford - New market

Having seen quite a few pieces of their work, I couldn’t agree more.

I have to be 110% honest that even though he is the student in this situation, I like Chris McCarver’s deer mounts I have more than I like the ones I have from Stan. It seems he has now reversed course on these things in his latest mounts (Hevi’s looks amazing), but I’m just not fan of the form/touch Stan would put on mounts where there were over-exaggerated definition lines on the jaws. Just doesn’t look natural enough to me. Stan also got to a point of over-exaggerating a buck’s “squint” in his eyes IMHO. Again, looks perfect on Hevi’s picture best I can tell. Me and my son have had 5 shoulder deer mounts done by Chris McCarver now, and as picky as I am, I can’t find a single thing I don’t like on any of em. How he captured what I wanted on my Campbell deer, after what a fiasco it was, was absolute perfection. Granted, the replacement cape I searched high and low and eventually found was the biggest factor, but Chris still nailed it.

I agreed Juggy, Chris mounts a great deer, I have 5 or 6 of his. The op didn't say what he wanted mounted. I rank Stan the best in these parts and just about anywhere else on whatever comes through the door no matter what continent it comes from.

That’s a great point! I assumed we were talking deer, but might have been a poor assumption. I also have a bird (turkey) and a fish from Stan (smallmouth replica painted to match from pics); amazing work.