Rhino Mount Options

[postoak]

My taxidermist hit me with a question I wasn't expecting. Do I want the skull and horns as a unit plus the actual shoulder mount with replica horns, or do I want the horns removed from the skull and used in the shoulder mount. I honestly never thought about any of this. Anybody have any ideas on which way to go?

 

[Josh P]

How far away from the mount will you be when looking from the floor? If far enough away, it might be neat to have the skull and horns as their own thing on a shelf. I doubt most people would know the difference if you never told them one set was a replica. A lot of it depends on personal taste. Some really like skulls, some don't.

 

[Hunt anything]

If I were to ever shoot a rhino I think I would take careful measurements of the horns and have a reproduction made by a taxidermist that I had carefully vetted that they made good reproduction of rhino before. Then I would put the actual horns in a safe with my elephant ivory.

 

[Hunting Hitman]

I had the original placed on the shoulder mount and the replica on the Rhino skull that sits on an end table.

HH

 

[postoak]

Rhino horn has no value in the U.S., right? I mean, you can't sell it. Or can you?