Finally..

[Kilimanjaro]

I know its not a coues buck, but hey, its the slow time of year and I thought ya'll would enjoy a few pics of my Red Stag that I FINALLY got around to mounting.. I shot him WAY back in 2001 in New Zealand. I just never had anywhere with enough room to put him, so the horns just sit in the corner of my room. Since I got my new home, I decided it was time to put him on the wall, and I dug around the other day and found the cape.. Got the cape ready, slightly altered the form and then just waited till I had another day off! I put him together about a week ago, and then finished him today... So, here he is!!

 

[25-06]

That is freakin SWEET lookin

[Red Rabbit]

Scott,

Does your new home have a trophy room/den for all your great mounts? Nice crown on him. Looks like you did him well.

 

Doug

[CouesWhitetail]

Great looking stag there Scottyboy! I assume you got this one before you fell off the cliff and spent all that time in the hospital?

[Chef]

Impressive.

[Kilimanjaro]

You got that right Amanda!!

The only reason I got to shoot him at all was because we had seen him several times before and he was a really agressive stag.. always roaring and fighting with the others.. when we saw him the last time, he had been fighting and had broke his skull.. not his antlers, but he broke his actual skull plate.. One side of his rack was just hanging there by the skin. He had broken his skull right down the middle along the joint line that goes right down the middle. He was just standing there in a complete daze.. He wasn't going to live much longer in the shape he was in, so I was given the green light to go ahead and put him down.. Not much on the hunt part of it, but hey, I put him out of his pain, and I got to shoot a pretty good stag that otherwise I wouldn't have been able to...

[CouesWhitetail]

Wow, can't say I have ever heard of an ungulate breaking open his skull plate fighting. Glad you were there to put him down. What an awful site that must have been.

 

Amanda

[CHD]

Wow Scotty, nice trophy. Them things take up a lot of room in a house, huh? I just got done decorating the living room in my new house, and I swear my elk head takes up half of it.

 

Thanks for posting the pic.

[DEERSLAM]

Nice Stag and you did a fine job on the mount. Hope to get a Red Stag myself someday.

[hunter4life]

Nice mount scottyboy!! Those red stags sure look good with all that antler up at the tops. When I was in New Zealand I saw a bunch and my dad shot one, but I only hunted chamois and tahr.

 

I have seen a mule deer with a broken skull and one antler hanging down, and my brother once saw a spike elk that had broken its skull and had one antler hanging down beside its head. He said the elk would walk very slowly and move its head very carefully so it wouldn't shake the antler. The elk looked like it had broken its skull a while ago as it was very skinny and in poor condition.

[muley]

When I was still working Law Enforcement for the forest service we found one that died from a broken skull,

on the Valles Caldera. No Doubt a bad way to go out.