browningbbr
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- Apr 6, 2009
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- Southern Wisconsin, USA
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- SCI Badgerland Chapter, NRA, Local Sportsmen's Club
- Hunted
- South Africa, Tanzania
On Friday, I picked up 8 of 9 trophies from our hunt in South Africa last May. (Everything was complete except my wife's warthog. She was disappointed.)
Because of the way we are decorating the trophy room (to look like a hunting outfitter's office in the 1950's), I didn't want to go with the typical veneered pedestals for the mounts. Instead, I built old-fashioned "shipping crates" that I rolled around in the driveway to make them look well-traveled. I had stencils made using the name of all 3 firms that handled the trophies and put them on the crates.
My taxidermist got such a kick out of the pedestals, that he took photos to send to the customs brokerage and the company that prepped and packed the heads and hides. He was also nice enough to photo-shop them onto a dark blue background.
Since he sent me copies of the photos as well, I thought that I'd post them.
- browningbbr
Because of the way we are decorating the trophy room (to look like a hunting outfitter's office in the 1950's), I didn't want to go with the typical veneered pedestals for the mounts. Instead, I built old-fashioned "shipping crates" that I rolled around in the driveway to make them look well-traveled. I had stencils made using the name of all 3 firms that handled the trophies and put them on the crates.
My taxidermist got such a kick out of the pedestals, that he took photos to send to the customs brokerage and the company that prepped and packed the heads and hides. He was also nice enough to photo-shop them onto a dark blue background.
Since he sent me copies of the photos as well, I thought that I'd post them.
- browningbbr
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