Trophy Room / Taxidermy Displays

[Mortenson]

Everything you showed there looks awesome. Looks like museum quality work. I think it's fine to repair a broken tine, especially under those circumstances. The deer grew it and had it recently. The last post I made, just up the page, the upright mount has a brow I repaired also. You can tell if you look closely.

 

[bigbendmarine]

How did you find the broken tine?

Telemark, I probably didn't explain it well but I actually made the repair with tine from a different buck. The buck that donated the substitute brow tine was road-killed near my place this past fall. Used its brow tine as a sub for the one missing from the buck I shot and used the skull from the roadkill as a base for the antlers from my SC buck killed long ago.

Donor / roadkill buck is the one to the left in the photo below. Tine I cut off and used was the taller brow tine on the side with the split brows.

 

[Freeborn]

I've shot some clays with it, and it handles like a dream. I was able to do some research on it and found some amazing stuff. They stamped the number of shot in a 30 inch circle at 40 yds underneath the barrels.

If I do a Hill Country, I'm going big bore - probably a 300 magnum.

Below is our new custom 45 Cal muzzleloader. My son broke it in right the other day on his 8 point.

Hi Native, is your muzzleloader a smokeless model? I plan on developing a similar gun. If you don't mind me asking, what brand is it and what kind of velocity are you getting out of it? Your scope looks tactical, how much total MOA do you have? Thanks!

 

[Native Hunter]

Hi Native, is your muzzleloader a smokeless model? I plan on developing a similar gun. If you don't mind me asking, what brand is it and what kind of velocity are you getting out of it? Your scope looks tactical, how much total MOA do you have? Thanks!

Freeborn, it is smokeless. The gun is custom made with a Remington 700 action and Brux match grade barrel. Everything is pillar bedded and fine tuned for accuracy. The bolt face has been modified to use a large rifle primers ignition system that the builder developed.

I shoot IMR 4198 powder and get 3,000 fps with a 275 Grain Pittman Accumax bullet. The scope is a Viper PST ERB-4 and has 75 MOA adjustment. The builder already had all the dial settings on the scope set up on paper to give me the setting all the way out to 600 yards. I only got the gun last year and so far have only shot it out to 200 yards - at which I'm getting one hole or almost one hole groups.

The only deer we have shot with it so far is the one my son is pictured with. A huge bodied buck and he slammed the ground hard right in his tracks. I'm very happy with the gun.

 

[Freeborn]

Freeborn, it is smokeless. The gun is custom made with a Remington 700 action and Brux match grade barrel. Everything is pillar bedded and fine tuned for accuracy. The bolt face has been modified to use a large rifle primers ignition system that the builder developed.

I shoot IMR 4198 powder and get 3,000 fps with a 275 Grain Pittman Accumax bullet. The scope is a Viper PST ERB-4 and has 75 MOA adjustment. The builder already had all the dial settings on the scope set up on paper to give me the setting all the way out to 600 yards. I only got the gun last year and so far have only shot it out to 200 yards - at which I'm getting one hole or almost one hole groups.

The only deer we have shot with it so far is the one my son is pictured with. A huge bodied buck and he slammed the ground hard right in his tracks. I'm very happy with the gun.

Thanks Native, that's excellent velocity. You should be able to shoot as far as you want with that setup. I've read about similar designs using the Rem action and large primer ignition system.

Thanks again!

 

[Telemark]

Telemark, I probably didn't explain it well but I actually made the repair with tine from a different buck. The buck that donated the substitute brow tine was road-killed near my place this past fall. Used its brow tine as a sub for the one missing from the buck I shot and used the skull from the roadkill as a base for the antlers from my SC buck killed long ago.

Donor / roadkill buck is the one to the left in the photo below. Tine I cut off and used was the taller brow tine on the side with the split brows.

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Wow. That's some impressive work.

 

[Mozark]

My wife told our taxidermist, that she liked coyote shoulder mounts. So, he hooked her up with two.

 

[Mozark]

The form on the right has "night eyes" installed.

 

[Mortenson]

Found a beauty of an arrowhead last week to add to the collection. Super lucky it wasn't broken, being a surface find in a field. I actually joined another forum to try and get some expert opinions on what type it is. Majority agreed it's an Archaic period corner notch point, with the most guesses saying Neuberger followed by Kirk's Corner Notch. Either way, it was most likely manufactured around 8,000-9,000 years ago.

 

[Tree Spud]

Found a beauty of an arrowhead last week to add to the collection. Super lucky it wasn't broken, being a surface find in a field. I actually joined another forum to try and get some expert opinions on what type it is. Majority agreed it's an Archaic period corner notch point, with the most guesses saying Neuberger followed by Kirk's Corner Notch. Either way, it was most likely manufactured around 8,000-9,000 years ago.

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Holy crap ... very cool! How do you look for them?

 

[Mortenson]

Honestly I spend probably 3 hours per year actually hunting for arrowheads. The few I've found have been mostly just crop scouting and walking in fields for one reason or another. Now my kids have kinda gotten bit by the bug, so I get them out a handful of times to burn off some energy. They found youtube videos showing people having decent success hunting gravel bars in creeks. They really want to check our creek, but I'm not thrilled with the idea of chasing our target bucks to the next district, so we haven't tried that method yet. 100% of our family's artifacts have been found on the surface of tilled fields after spring or summer rains to wash and flatten things. My grandpa and dad found a bunch while row crop cultivating, staring at the ground. They said often you couldn't stop in time.

 

[SWIFFY]

Thats wild! That looks like a big arrowhead and in perfect shape. Ive found a ton of sheds over the years but never even lucked in to an arrowhead... always makes me wonder how many ive stepped right over?!?!?! Someday im going to try and look for them. Very neat you and the kids get a few!

 

[Jordan Selsor]

Got my 7.5 year old MO ridge runner back.
Allot of memories chasing this OL boy.

 

[Mozark]

Found a beauty of an arrowhead last week to add to the collection. Super lucky it wasn't broken, being a surface find in a field. I actually joined another forum to try and get some expert opinions on what type it is. Majority agreed it's an Archaic period corner notch point, with the most guesses saying Neuberger followed by Kirk's Corner Notch. Either way, it was most likely manufactured around 8,000-9,000 years ago.

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Translucent points are tough to find, that one is beautiful! Congrats!

 

[hillrunner]

Honestly I spend probably 3 hours per year actually hunting for arrowheads. The few I've found have been mostly just crop scouting and walking in fields for one reason or another. Now my kids have kinda gotten bit by the bug, so I get them out a handful of times to burn off some energy. They found youtube videos showing people having decent success hunting gravel bars in creeks. They really want to check our creek, but I'm not thrilled with the idea of chasing our target bucks to the next district, so we haven't tried that method yet. 100% of our family's artifacts have been found on the surface of tilled fields after spring or summer rains to wash and flatten things. My grandpa and dad found a bunch while row crop cultivating, staring at the ground. They said often you couldn't stop in time.

You must live near an old camp? I'd give up a ton of my sheds to find just one arrow head. I'm sure I've stepped over more than one without realizing it.

 

[Bill]

Got my 7.5 year old MO ridge runner back.
Allot of memories chasing this OL boy.
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sweet!

 

[Tree Spud]

Honestly I spend probably 3 hours per year actually hunting for arrowheads. The few I've found have been mostly just crop scouting and walking in fields for one reason or another. Now my kids have kinda gotten bit by the bug, so I get them out a handful of times to burn off some energy. They found youtube videos showing people having decent success hunting gravel bars in creeks. They really want to check our creek, but I'm not thrilled with the idea of chasing our target bucks to the next district, so we haven't tried that method yet. 100% of our family's artifacts have been found on the surface of tilled fields after spring or summer rains to wash and flatten things. My grandpa and dad found a bunch while row crop cultivating, staring at the ground. They said often you couldn't stop in time.

Mort ... need your discerning eye. Was removing a beaver dam this spring and pulled this out of the creek bed.

Looks deliberately chipped, maybe a start at a spear tip or arrowhead ...

 

[Mortenson]

Sure could be, Tree Spud. Any idea what kind of material it is? WI is definitely indian country! We find a fair amount of flint flakes, broken pieces, and "scrapers" as we typically call them, but in many cases I think they're actually called preforms. Here are a couple of those from this year.

 

[livinadream]

A couple of "the hornet's nest"

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