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<blockquote data-quote="Topgun 30-06" data-source="post: 1508454" data-attributes="member: 28854"><p>[ATTACH=full]110345[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>You asked for comments, so here goes. The mounts, especially the big guy, look so unnatural that it makes me wonder what forms the guy used to put the hides on. Both necks are not in a natural position like the other member mentioned with them way too vertical and the hides are not stretched tight or full like they should be if they were mounted on the proper sized forms. They also don't look natural the way he raised the hair on the back of the neck so much. Some taxis raise it a little and others leave it down like it is 99% of the time in real life. The head of the big guy doesn't even look like a goat head it's so screwed up. The picture of this goat on my wall is what one should look like. It was done by Jim Marsico, a world renowned taxidermist/sculpture in Cody, WY. Jim has a grizzly mounted in the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum along with a diorama of five antelope in the Smithsonian Museum in DC, so it's obvious he knows what he's doing or he wouldn't be putting sutff in those places. That mount cost $650 back in 2009. I'm wondering how much the guy charged you for those two abortions? Anyway, I would be raising a storm and asking for my money back such that I could take them to a pro that knows what a good antelope mount looks like and not trust him to redo them. There is no way as good as those bucks are, especially the big boy, that I could hang them on my wall as bad as they look no matter how big the horns are! Taxidermists that do a terrible job like those two bucks should be outed so nobody else spends hard earned money on junk. You asked and I'm sorry I had to tell the truth, but I have to assume the truth is what you wanted or you wouldn't have started the thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topgun 30-06, post: 1508454, member: 28854"] [ATTACH=full]110345[/ATTACH] You asked for comments, so here goes. The mounts, especially the big guy, look so unnatural that it makes me wonder what forms the guy used to put the hides on. Both necks are not in a natural position like the other member mentioned with them way too vertical and the hides are not stretched tight or full like they should be if they were mounted on the proper sized forms. They also don't look natural the way he raised the hair on the back of the neck so much. Some taxis raise it a little and others leave it down like it is 99% of the time in real life. The head of the big guy doesn't even look like a goat head it's so screwed up. The picture of this goat on my wall is what one should look like. It was done by Jim Marsico, a world renowned taxidermist/sculpture in Cody, WY. Jim has a grizzly mounted in the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum along with a diorama of five antelope in the Smithsonian Museum in DC, so it's obvious he knows what he's doing or he wouldn't be putting sutff in those places. That mount cost $650 back in 2009. I'm wondering how much the guy charged you for those two abortions? Anyway, I would be raising a storm and asking for my money back such that I could take them to a pro that knows what a good antelope mount looks like and not trust him to redo them. There is no way as good as those bucks are, especially the big boy, that I could hang them on my wall as bad as they look no matter how big the horns are! Taxidermists that do a terrible job like those two bucks should be outed so nobody else spends hard earned money on junk. You asked and I'm sorry I had to tell the truth, but I have to assume the truth is what you wanted or you wouldn't have started the thread. [/QUOTE]
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