Kudu mounts? Low-ish ceiling

[wildfowler.250]

Well folks, I’m sure this has been asked numerous times on here but I’m needing some real life experience.

The ‘reloading’ room where anything boy related can go in without many questions asked is 2M high.
I’d a red stag pedestal mount that I was really pleased with a couple of years ago. Detachable antlers for ease of transport. Blooming mount wouldn’t fit in in the room by 2-3” with the antlers on - the other half did take this very well. It now resides in the living room which is 2.5M high.


This isn’t likely to be our forever home. Is it practical to fit a kudu into a 2M heigh room on a low base?
Or will it likely be going downstairs? And will it even fit in a 2.5M room??


Appreciate a really low base might make the mount look stupid as well but I do like the idea of the stands as they are more portable where wall space might be limited.


Thanks!

 

[wildfowler.250]

If anyone can measure their mounts as well, that would be massively appreciated. I’ve no real life idea how big a 52”, 55” or monster kudu even is..

 

[Red Leg]

This 55” kudu’s original home was a six foot alcove in our basement in our previous home. It is all in the tilt of the head.

 

[wildfowler.250]

This 55” kudu’s original home was a six foot alcove in our basement in our previous home. It is all in the tilt of the head.

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That room is top notch. Love it!

I did wonder about the head position. I’ll keep that in mind. Also could maybe shave 2” off the stand but I think the whole point of the pedestal is that the animal is at eye level I suppose

 

[Red Leg]

That room is top notch. Love it!

I did wonder about the head position. I’ll keep that in mind. Also could maybe shave 2” off the stand but I think the whole point of the pedestal is that the animal is at eye level I suppose

This one fit in a 6 ft alcove. The head is lower than eye level and looks great. The pedestal is armrest high to the chairs.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Red Leg, sorry for snooping around in your previous basement. Is this a War Club ?

 

[Hunt anything]

I would go with a pedestal mount like @Red Leg , I have my kudu as a full sneak wall pedestal with a fairly hard left turn. His footprint is fairly small for a 700# animal. His horns aren’t the biggest really worn down and an Eastern Cape kudu.

 

[WAB]

This mount is 89” tall. The base is 30”. The horns are 59” and 57.5”.

 

[WAB]

This mount is 89” tall. The base is 30”. The horns are 59” and 57.5”.

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Note that it is a more upright pose than that of redleg’s.

 

[AZDAVE]

I really like the pose on both of your KUDU's. Very good solution to deal with a lower ceiling.

 

[Red Leg]

Red Leg, sorry for snooping around in your previous basement. Is this a War Club ?View attachment 593533

I am pretty sure we are hijacking @wildfowler.250 's thread. But, you are actually looking at the current trophy room. I shot the kudu in 2008 and it stood in a low alcove only six feet high in our basement in Northern Virginia where we lived until 2013. The weapons above the door are Arab. The top blade is Arab Peninsula and dates to the second half of the 19th century. The second is circa 1780 and was made in Zanzibar using a European blade. The musket is a classic Arab Jezail from either North Africa or the Arab Peninsula. I suspect the latter if for no other reason because I found it in the antique souk (market) in Riyadh in the '86 or '87. The lower blade is a Moroccan Nimcha (short sword) dating to the late 19th century.

I do have a couple of clubs that might interest you. The larger one is a mystery. It came from a well respected antique weapons dealer identified as a rare form of Zulu war club. That could be true, but I have never seen another. Due to its very heavy weight, I am very confident it is East African, but which tribal group I am unsure.

The second is a classic Zulu Iwisa or Knobkerrie. It came out of an estate in the UK and was a battlefield pickup. The young soldier who brought it home had a silver plaque affixed with his rank Name and "Zululand 1879."

 

[Altitude sickness]

Very nice, thanks for the explanation.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I have two kudu capes waiting for me two open up the trophy room ceiling. In the meantime I have three skulls mounted to the walls. Kudu make impressive euro mounts. For floor mount pedestals I think head turned and horns tilted back makes the most sense for low ceilings but that mount will cut into floor space considerably.

 

[Firebird]

Basically the same form as redleg but mounted on a burnt off cedar stump. Could have cut the stump taller or shorter to accommodate 7 foot 8 inch basement ceiling height. I have a second kudu being mounted that will sit lower than the first bull on the same stump.
The beauty of pedestal mounts is they work in a tall or short room-lots of modern pedestal specific poses avaialble these days. Waterbuck also pedestal custom fit for my basement, sorry it’s hard to get good photos in that room

 

[Ridge Runner]

Well folks, I’m sure this has been asked numerous times on here but I’m needing some real life experience.

The ‘reloading’ room where anything boy related can go in without many questions asked is 2M high.
I’d a red stag pedestal mount that I was really pleased with a couple of years ago. Detachable antlers for ease of transport. Blooming mount wouldn’t fit in in the room by 2-3” with the antlers on - the other half did take this very well. It now resides in the living room which is 2.5M high.


This isn’t likely to be our forever home. Is it practical to fit a kudu into a 2M heigh room on a low base?
Or will it likely be going downstairs? And will it even fit in a 2.5M room??


Appreciate a really low base might make the mount look stupid as well but I do like the idea of the stands as they are more portable where wall space might be limited.


Thanks!

Welcome to AH.

Here is a photo of my 59 inch kudu wall mount on a 7 feet 9 inch wall.

If I remember correctly it's somewhere around 23 inches from the floor to the hump at the base of the neck and around 4 inches from the tip of the right horn to the ceiling. I don't remember the distance from wall to tip of nose. I'll just that it does stick out into the room.

 

[Hunt anything]

This is my full sneak eastern cape kudu, he is 58” from bottom of his brisket to top of his horns.

 

[Kevin Billings]

This 55” kudu’s original home was a six foot alcove in our basement in our previous home. It is all in the tilt of the head.

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Red Leg, beautiful pedestal mount. Where/who did you get the form from?

 

[Red Leg]

Red Leg, beautiful pedestal mount. Where/who did you get the form from?

Thank you. It was done by Critter Creations Taxidermy out of Chambersburg, PA. They were especially good with cats.

Critter Creations Taxidermy :: Specializing in Big Game African Taxidermy

 

[Tundra Tiger]

My home does not currently have ceiling space; we are considering a home addition, though the only contractor in town is two for two, as in two years in a row with a serious snowmachine injury, so I don't have a timeline.

My one kudu mount is currently on the wall of my office, above my computer, because my office - though comically small, has high enough ceilings. Which doesn't help you one iota, does it?

 

[Kevin Billings]

Thank you. It was done by Critter Creations Taxidermy out of Chambersburg, PA. They were especially good with cats.

Critter Creations Taxidermy :: Specializing in Big Game African Taxidermy

By chance do you know made the form? (McKenzie Taxidermy Supplies, Jim Allred Taxidermy Supplies, Jetz Taxidermy Supplies, etc...)

Thank you