Flat skins

[Jeff75]

So I was fortunate to get my taxidermy loaded onto a SAA repatriation flight last week as outbound cargo. My safari last year was my first, and I have euro mounts and flat skins for a kudu, gemsbok, and waterbok.

My question is, what interesting things have you all done with plains game hides? Any options other than throw pillows?

 

[CM McKenzie]

Anything you want. Backpacks, duffle bags, inlays, benches seat for an old pickup, things for the wife. Your imagination is the limit. I’ve already decided, I’m going to build a black walnut gun rack with a blue wildebeest background after my hunt next year.

 

[Major Khan]

I use mine for making table mats and floor rugs ... All over my house .

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

So I was fortunate to get my taxidermy loaded onto a SAA repatriation flight last week as outbound cargo. My safari last year was my first, and I have euro mounts and flat skins for a kudu, gemsbok, and waterbok.

My question is, what interesting things have you all done with plains game hides? Any options other than throw pillows?

Jeff75
I've seen same dam fine gun bags made of impala and Springbok also zebra. I would only use zebra if I had a back skin.
My zebra will become a bed cover.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

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I use mine for making table mats and floor rugs ... All over my house .

Friend Ponton
They are beautiful chital skins the bottom one looks like a,kangaroo skin.
Your friend
Bob

 

[Major Khan]

Friend Ponton
They are beautiful chital skins the bottom one looks like a,kangaroo skin.
Your friend
Bob

Why thank you so much , my friend .
The 1st 2 are of a cheetal deer skin .
The 3rd is of a clouded panther ( the " Child Eater Of Terai " )
The 4th is an Australian Kangaroo which I hunted in Australia in 1979 .

 

[buck wild]

Here’s what I’ve done with some of mine that even my wife approves of . I got some cheap 12”x12” artist frames and wrapped my hides around and stapled to the back. They can hang as individual tiles or I put them together for this large wall art display.

 

[Ridgewalker]

https://www.africahunting.com/threads/what-do-you-do-with-skins.33858/

 

[Deleted member 43267]

I use them as rugs with the expectation that they will wear out and the hope that I will have to go back and get more of them.

Jeff

 

[Ridgewalker]

I use them as rugs with the expectation that they will wear out and the hope that I will have to go back and get more of them. Jeff

LOL!

 

[DCN]

Here are mine. Old school. On the floor.