If you did not see this week’s post on Whitetail 365, you missed a good discussion on shoehorning trophy mounts into a house. Following up on Friday’s post, the photo above has got to be the best use of space to showcase a bonafide wallhanger.
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Game mounts are meant to be seen, not tucked into the attic. Unfortunately, not everyone has the room or the spouse to approve their display. I learned this the hard way when the shoulder mount of my South Dakota bison arrived and the spot I had been saving for it was to small. I was able to talk my wife into letting me hang him in the bedroom where the 5′ tall mount extends 4′ from the wall, albeit on my side of the bed.
So when a couple of missionaries who spent years in Africa return to the States and settle down in Clover, South Carolina, they made sure to plan ahead when building their home.
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This whole Doubletough idea got started with a simple story told in elk camp late one evening in the hills north of Meeker, Colorado, near Sleepy Cat mountain. The storyteller, Aaron Enget, is the Director of Rodeo Administration at the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and his office drips of the western lifestyle. But something was missing.
A couple years ago Aaron knocked down his first muley near Elizabeth, CO and it wound up being just the touch his office needed. Around that same time, the other founding member of our trio, John Tripp, was in New Mexico and took an aoudad ram. John didn’t have anywhere to put the mount so it was relegated to the garage for about a year. Such a fine mount needed a place of honor and so it was that Aaron offered to add it to his office.
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Doubletough friend Billy of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina let us know today that the skins from two zebras taken last summer finally arrived from Africa. A frequent contributor to Doubletough Outdoors, Billy is a fine Southern sportsman when he’s not brokering yachts and sportfishing boats. This particular adventure pretty much fell in his lap as a friend won a hunt with Adansonia Safaris but could not go, so Billy jumped at the opportunity.
According to Billy, the locals use zebra meat to feed injured and newborn lions as well as being raised for hunting by foreigners, “they are like cattle there and you would have to be from Africa to understand.”
Check out the finished skins after the jump. They’re going to look great next to his North Carolina-record black bear full-body mount.
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