Taxidermy Page
Well I'm not trophy hunter in the that I only hunt for trophy animals, but there are several that for one reason or another meant something more to me, and therefore I wanted to preserve their memory.
So anyway, here's some pictures of the taxidermy work that I have in my home.
This is a nice bass, 8 lbs that my father caught on of all days his anniversary, hehe, I mean that's what you're supposed to do on your anniversary right, go fishing? As time when on I ended up with the mount.
One late December day in 97 I decided to go pheasant hunting, regardless of the weather, although the wind was blowing at 30 mph and the windchills were in the area of 40 below I was goin huntin. Call me dedicated I guess. Well after 3.5 hours of nothing, this rooster and another finally came up from under my feet during a beautiful snow fall. They both came up cackling hard and it's a flush I'll never forget. I nocked both birds down but was only able to recover this one.
Well, can you tell that I did this one myself? Ok so I'm no taxidermist. After an incredible Fall 2000, where I was fortunate to see several Pope & Young bucks, one of which in the 160 class that I saw 7 times, I finally got worn out and then this fellow strolled by. Nov 3rd, 2000 after seeing over 18 deer in 1 hour, I decided I was ready to be done and harvested this nice little 9 point.
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Well this nice Tom was from my Spring 2000 hunt. My first attempt at Spring turkey hunting and it turned out to be alot more work than I ever though it would be. I had some friends to help me out, but it just seemed like the birds weren't co-operating for anybody in the area very well. They just didn't want to respond to calling much. This bird taught me alot, and I actually got him completely on my own on public land. A nice bird for my first weighing in at 22lbs, 10.5 inch beard, and 1 1/8 inch spurs. It took 13 days of turkey hunting, and 3 days of hunting him specifically to get him in. Then after all that it took driving down in a Blizzard 41 miles to the taxidermist to pick him up, but needless to say nothing was gonna keep me from going to get him.
