First crate!

[Elkeater]

Well my first ever (and not the last if I have it my way!) crate came this week and I’ve been getting it all hung up for our families enjoyment.

First I want to give credit to Bullseye Taxidermy, African Legacy Logistics, and Coppersmith for a fantastic and strait forward experience in getting everything home. I would highly recommend their services and will absolutely use them again in the future when I get back to Africa. Bullseye picked our trophies up, cataloged everything and the communication from them was perfect. Africa legacy logistics took care of everything on the RSA side and worked seamlessly with Coppersmith to get our trophies from Vaalwater to our home in Arizona. And at what I feel like was a reasonable price since we had all our taxidermy work done in RSA so our crate was large.

Our crate contained my daughters Impala, and blesbok shoulder mounts, her zebra rug, full body steenbok mount, and her springbok euro and flat skin.

Additionally my son had his warthog skull and warthog leather and his blue wildebeest shoulder mount.

It also had my Kudu shoulder mount, Impala shoulder mount, Nyala wall pedestal mount, warthog skull and porcupine skull and flat skin. Along with backskins from everything.

The crating was impressive. Amazing how much they can fit in such a smallish crate.

Overall it was about 15 months from the end of our hunt in to the time we got our trophies hung on the wall.

We hunted with Sensational Hunting Safaris in Limpopo and my hunt report is in the hunt report section if anyone wants to read it.

 

[Elkeater]

 

[Green Chile]

Congrats on your first crate and welcome to the addiction.

 

[Pablo]

It’s like Christmas for hunters!

 

[mark-hunter]

Quite a prolific safari you had!
Awesome!
Congrats!

 

[Elkeater]

Congrats on your first crate and welcome to the addiction.

Oh the addiction is real.

I’m slowly planning another trip. Hopefully 2028.

 

[Elkeater]

Quite a prolific safari you had!
Awesome!
Congrats!

Ya with three of the four people in house hunting the animals stack up fast. My kids already have lists for the next trip! And they have some expensive taste.

 

[SETH RINGER]

THAT'S A GREAT RUG, GOOD FOR YOUR DAUGHTER!

 

[Reihuc]

Crate looks good! Impressive.

 

[Mekaniks]

Congratulations!

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Congratulations, mounts look great! That is a most proper steenbok!!

 

[Jbrsol]

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Nice first crate, you're hooked now!

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Very nice! I think the picture over your fireplace will need to be relocated. That is prime real estate for one of your trophies.

 

[Elkeater]

Very nice! I think the picture over your fireplace will need to be relocated. That is prime real estate for one of your trophies.

But that’s like my favorite picture from Africa! It’s actually a herd of Blue wildebeest in front of the setting sun. I had a canvas print done.

Actually that’s a place holder. My wife doesn’t know it yet but someday there will hopefully be a full body mount of a bedded Vaal Rhebok on a rock ledge. My three main targets next time over are a bushbuck, cape eland and a Vaal Rhebok.

Here the actual picture that’s hung up though.