Finished my last safari

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Some of you may know this, but I took a promotion and "moved" to Houston back in the fall. I'm still driving back and forth on the weekends to "my home" while renting a small aprt in downtown Houston. This basically killed my ability to do my side taxidermy projects and I basically closed down to customer stuff. Funny thing is I have lots of spare time on my hands M-Thur but the apt isn't conducive to taxidermy I have taken up another hobby as a result which you'll see a little later. With over 60 mounts in my house, I needed something that wouldn't use much space for the project so I decided to go with a cluster mount for the largest and smallest of the safari. They will all hang on the wall if needed at a later time and the base comes part in 2 sections.

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[Big Todd]

Man that looks amazing! Hate to hear you're quiting the Taxi business.

Love the cluster mount though very cool!

[buck_wild]

And with my new found spare time, I decided to try my hand at sculpting. This is my 2nd piece which is basically a replica of my kudu. Big daddy and mini me in same pic

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and my next piece, 2 kudu bulls that will be jumping cactus and a broken down fence. I have the carved foam and wire armature done, waiting on clay.

[buck_wild]

Man that looks amazing! Hate to hear you're quiting the Taxi business.

Love the cluster mount though very cool!

Thanks- I'll never quit, just side tracked for the moment. I hope to have a more stable living arrangement worked out in next year or so that will allow me to do more stuff again. Or when I retire in 5 years

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That's everything from my last safari as the jackal skull is on the base, but the mountain reedbuck, which went #11 in SCI. He is mounted but I'm really allergic to him, so he stays upstairs. I didn't have a picture of that mount, but it's a standard shoulder. Had I known he was going to go #11, I might have done something more special in the mount but being allergic to it, it wouldn't have matter

[texas shag]

very nice. Congrats on the fine trophies, and good luck on the sculpting. You are off to a great start.

[ar3731guy]

now you are in Houston, we have to catch up sometime.

[doug]

That's an awesome looking bunch of mounts!!! The sculpting looks good too!

That's crazy that your allergic to the mount. I never would have thought about that happening.

[systemnt]

Beautiful mounts and sculpture.. great idea too.
very talented

[Ouch]

mad skillz

[CoryW]

That's awesome!

[ATXBowhunter]

Really creative!! Nice work.