Coues World record at Cabellas

[vegasjeep]

I got to the Cabellas and saw that the world record is their and in a full body mount. I know the taxidermist that work for Cabellas, Bass pro etc are turning alot of animals out, and I would suspect they are worki for them as they could not make it on their own... But this ios the worst Coues deer mount I have ever seen. It Is HORRIBLE!!!!

 

I take my Coues deer to the most famous Coues mounting people their are in Tucson. They are always in magazines etc. for their wonderful Coues mounts. But come on... if your gonna have a world record make it look "real".

 

Doyle/Lippert Taxidermy is the place to go for a coues deer mount......

[DesertBull]

I just looked at the mount less than an hour ago and it is pretty bad. Looks like a giant deer head on a jack rabbits body. Looks like they used a doe's skin to make the full body mount and stuck the horns on it.

 

I had another question about the mounts they have there. Some of those mule deer mounts have to be replicas right? Who is going let some one take there world record Mule deer mount?

[ForkHorn]

Actually I think that almost all of the really big mounts there are replicas, including the world record coues.

 

When I was there I never even noticed the bad mount job because i was too busy drooling over the rack!

 

 

 

 

- ForkHorn

[DEERSLAM]

Who is going let some one take there world record Mule deer mount?

 

Doug Burris Jr. did sell his World Record Typical Mule Deer to Cabelas a few years back. Not sure where the real mount is, a remounted shoulder mount. They do have a number of replicas on life size mounts in their stores.

[vegasjeep]

what do you mean replicas? as in fake racks? made from a mold?

 

Or do you mean original racks but different bodies? cause I believe most racks are not on the orginal head.

 

The world record rack shot by Ed Stockwell sat behind his shed for a few years before he decided to ever have it measured. The antlers were never on the original mount....

 

now I am curious if the antlers were real or if they are reproductions.

[DEERSLAM]

I believe alot of the racks at Cabelas are replicas, cast from the real antlers of deer that they have purchased. Then mounted, most of the time lifesize.

[vegasjeep]

I believe alot of the racks at Cabelas are replicas, cast from the real antlers of deer that they have purchased. Then mounted, most of the time lifesize.

 

 

i was not aware of that, i talked to the owner guy and he said that the real record holder was in texas, maybe they do that to spread the world record deer around to more then one store?

[Couesnut]

The full body mounts they have in the "museum" are the most pathetic I seen.

I don't think who ever did them is from here, & knows what a big Coues looks like.

They need redone!!!

[grizzly]

I agree they look like 3D targets or decoys. The antlers all look like reproductions. You can buy life size reproductions of some of the biggest deer ever shot. Not sure where but I got a catalog a few years ago that had stickers and tshirts and mini-replicas of some famous bucks and even had life size suitable for mounting.

[billrquimby]

"The world record rack shot by Ed Stockwell sat behind his shed for a few years before he decided to ever have it measured. The antlers were never on the original mount...."

 

 

I knew Ed Stockwell but was unaware that his record deer antlers "sat behind his shed for a few year." Could very well be, because he was a teenager when he shot it.

 

Taxidermist John Doyle was a good friend of Ed's and would remount the Stockwell head with a new cape every few years whenever he changed his mounting forms and encourage Ed to display them locally because he felt the world record should be seen by as many people as possible, and should be the best work Doyle could produce.

 

Ed became a successful sheep guide in his later years, and he shot a few big desert mule deer, but he claimed he never saw a whitetail that approached anywhere near the size of his record buck even though his honey business in Arivaca kept him afield in Coues habitat.

 

He once told me everyone expected him to be a super great hunter when in fact he had been just super lucky to have taken that buck.

 

Bill Quimby

[peloncillo]

I'll take lucky over good anyday.

[.270]

there are some ugly mounts at cabelas. looks like the same guy that did the elk in KC did a lot of em for the Az. store too. traingle headed, slant faced and ugly. there were some putrid coues bucks mounted. and there are a buncha replicas mounted there too. either that or the ones in the other stores are replicas. because all the big muleys in the museum are in the KC store and others. so someplace has to have replicas. did you notice in the "museum", on the back wall, there is a row of big bucks mounted with scores attached under em. the farthest buck to the east said it was a 243 nontypical, but it only had 3 really small nontypical points, and i don't think any of them were long enough to be measurable. looks like somebody mislabeled that dude for sure. the little canyon you can walk through was cool. all in all tho, there are some great mounts there. even if some of em were ugly. most of the big pronghorns looked like replicas also. but it was cool to be that close to em to see just how big they really are. the one from 1878 was incredible. whay ain't that thing the world record? it's huge. i liked the prarie dog butt stickin' outta that hole. the museum had some really big elk in it too. we went last thursday and had a really nice time. spent a lotta time and money there. had me a elk samwich. seen some ol' pals. bought me some blaze orange stirrups. i've always had this phobia about somebody shootin' me in the foot while i was ridin'....... Lark.

[vegasjeep]

"The world record rack shot by Ed Stockwell sat behind his shed for a few years before he decided to ever have it measured. The antlers were never on the original mount...."

 

 

I knew Ed Stockwell but was unaware that his record deer antlers "sat behind his shed for a few year." Could very well be, because he was a teenager when he shot it.

 

Taxidermist John Doyle was a good friend of Ed's and would remount the Stockwell head with a new cape every few years whenever he changed his mounting forms and encourage Ed to display them locally because he felt the world record should be seen by as many people as possible, and should be the best work Doyle could produce.

 

Ed became a successful sheep guide in his later years, and he shot a few big desert mule deer, but he claimed he never saw a whitetail that approached anywhere near the size of his record buck even though his honey business in Arivaca kept him afield in Coues habitat.

 

He once told me everyone expected him to be a super great hunter when in fact he had been just super lucky to have taken that buck.

 

Bill Quimby

 

Bill,

 

Do you know many people from Arivaca? The Schaffners who lived their for a LONG time and had shot hundres of Coues between the family. They had the big fenced in yard just as you entered into Arivaca on the Left. Richard Schaffner 1st, Jr , III- Frank Schaffner. Richard Schaffner ran and worked for Ed in his honey business for about 10 years. Later hunting with Ed.

 

I think in his later years Ed and Doyle were goit o Yuma alot to hunt. I think they were a couple of 4 or 5 people. Ed always loved the deer in Big Sandy!!!!

 

Like Kim who had the 3rd largest deer for ahwile but has now slipped to 6th I think. He has an archery shop inside Doyles now. Richard Schaffner taught Kim how to hunt.

 

 

The people that live in the area and 36b never hunted for trophey game it was for food. That is why some good size antlers were always tossed behind the shed.

[couesdiehard]

Hey guys had to do some major resizing of the photos but here's a picture of Stockwell's buck at Cabela's.

 

Here's one that I like better, because they didn't put on such a small bodied animal.

 

I will say that we have seen Coues with a lot of these traits of body and head shape but Stockwell's does seem like way too small of a body and head for the rack.

[BASS]

Yeah there are a couple mounts in the museum that look horrible, but has anyone looked at the "Jackrabbit" they have in there? I think it is by the coues area if I remember right. That thing looks almost like it should be in a horror movie! If you look close you can see where they joined the two pelts, it goes from grey to almost white with a perfect line between the two. Also the body is tiny, and the ears all of six inches the face is enough to make me stay in the house. One of the worst mounts there I think.