Your first shoulder mount

[cnelk]

**A little reprieve from gas prices and foreign war threads **

I don’t have many shoulder mounts - only 4. (Mainly euros grace my walls)

I still have my first shoulder mount of a whitetail I shot back in 1986.

What was your first shoulder mount and how long ago?

 

[Marble]

This is from a few years ago.

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[johnsd16]

First mature whitetail, 2014.

 

[dreamingbig]

2017 - only shoulder mount so far…


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[dreamingbig]

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[Meshnasty]

I only have one which is a moose from 2020 and it’s still at the taxidermist.

I also don’t have a house to put it in so I’m in no hurry to get it back.

 

[Thover]

My first antelope and first big game animal. 2008

 

[william schmaltz]

None for me, can't really justify the cost. I do have a Dall cape in the freezer and a few sets of horns laying up in the guest room and I toy with the idea of getting one mounted every now and then. I really enjoy looking at taxidermy so hopefully people post em up. Just don't really have a desire for shoulder mounts in my house I guess.

 

[Fitzwho]

My first and only shoulder mount. Euros all around for me anymore.

 

[rjb0021]

Here’s the first one I had mounted, killed him in 2017. Only have one other shoulder mounted and that was my first buck with a bow.

 

[Michael Rankin]

I shot this deer in the wasatch mountains in Utah probably 20 years ago. It was my third year bow hunting. Second backpack hunt. I killed this buck on day 7 of the trip. On day 12 filled my cow tag.

I love looking at this deer every day. Reminds me of such a cool adventure. 12 days in the mountains with a paper map and compass, iodine tablets for water, I had a $2 tin foil space blanket to put my sleeping bag on no tent or tarp, packed 2 long sleeve cotton tshirts no jacket, and my pack weighed 82 pounds after spending g the whole summer trying to figure out how to cut weight. Probably one of my most miserable and funnest trips still to this day

 

[McCrapper]

I shot this deer in the wasatch mountains in Utah probably 20 years ago. It was my third year bow hunting. Second backpack hunt. I killed this buck on day 7 of the trip. On day 12 filled my cow tag.

I love looking at this deer every day. Reminds me of such a cool adventure. 12 days in the mountains with a paper map and compass, iodine tablets for water, I had a $2 tin foil space blanket to put my sleeping bag on no tent or tarp, packed 2 long sleeve cotton tshirts no jacket, and my pack weighed 82 pounds after spending g the whole summer trying to figure out how to cut weight. Probably one of my most miserable and funnest trips still to this dayView attachment 389531

Great deer and great memories!


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[JeffP_Or]

Don't have many but feel they keep the memories alive and I like the artistic aspect. That said, I present the only big game mount - my one and only Pronghorn from Oregon; 2016 after 16 years of points and several more before points were a thing:

 

[Green1]

My first and only shoulder mount, in full holiday spirit!

 

[Still Hunter]

My first 8 point. December 31st , 1976. It was the last day I was going to get to hunt that year and my lease was a 35 minute drive away and it took another 30 min to get back to my stand area. It was a Friday and I skipped my 6th period class to get out there. Just as I got up in the top of that old oak tree sitting on that 2x4 I had nailed between two forks in that old Oak I looked out and already had deer moving in a tree line about 150 yards way. That 8 point followed a doe all-round in that tree line for hours offering no shot. Just right before it was too late to shoot, that doe broke from that tree line and ran across the field 100 yards out and he came out chasing her. She stopped halfway across to nibble on something and he stopped beside her and it was all I needed to put that 100 grain .243 Remington Core Lock right behind his shoulder. He jumped five foot in the air and ran about 40 yards then he face planted into the high grass. I leaped own out of that tree and ran all the way to him. He is nothing much to brag about but to a 16 yr old boy he was like my transitioning from being a boy to a MAN!. I had killed a 8 POINT BUCK! He sits in my garage today. I will try to remember to get a pic tonight and add it to this post. It's an ugly old mount. Thanks "cnelk" for the memory.

 

[tuffcity]

My first ram (stone) from 1987 (first taxi mount) along with my daughter's dall from 2021 (also her first animal and destined for the taxidermist)

 

[rjw4]

My first wall mount is the one on the far right from back in 2005, the two on the pedestal are from 2019, and 2021's future wall mount is hanging off the turkey mount.

 

[Northpark]

My first wall mount is the one on the far right from back in 2005, the two on the pedestal are from 2019, and 2021's future wall mount is hanging off the turkey mount.
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I really like those turkeys and I’m not much of a turkey hunter

 

[Northpark]

I’ve got three. all Texas exotics. My first was a Corsican sheep which I got mounted because I thought it looked cool, my broke horn scimitar horned oryx because my wife was with me when I shot it and she thought it was super cool and wanted it mounted and my 30” free range Aoudad from 2020. Have a bunch of euros all over the place.

 

[rjw4]

I really like those turkeys and I’m not much of a turkey hunter

They're Rio's from south central Kansas. It was a 1 shot double so I figured I better do something neat with them. My buddy took this photo which I think turned out pretty cool the Taxidermist was from Lusk, WY but I can't recall his business name.