Ram Find: What would you do with it?

[CouesPursuit]

I was lucky enough to find this large ram skull while working with the BLM a few years back. It is in rough shape from the sun, any recommendations on anything others have done in the past to keep it intact?

 

It is currently inside on display in the living room, so sun and heat are no longer a problem. Current plan is to leave it as is. I hesitate to do anything to this trophy animal, but I would at least like any opinions if others had luck with something for preservation that wouldn't be invasive to the character of this ram.

 

 

 

 

 

Appreciate any advice - thanks in advance.

[CouesPursuit]

I will add I have written permission from the WM. It is a legal find. Thanks.

[Jimmer Negamanee]

I think it looks awesome just like that! Great find! I suppose if you wanted to you could make a pedestal with some habitat features. That would look cool too. Thanks for posting.

[trphyhntr]

get a ram tag and add that to your full body mount

[oz31p]

i would leave it the way you found it. i restored a big dead head coues skull and i ve always regreted it.

[wildwoody]

talk to a taxadermist there are some oils you can apply to re moisten the horn and a little hidrogin proxide for the scull , but it does look great the way it is. goodluck

[mr.smith]

Great find! I have one in very similar condition. I just stuck mine on a high wall shelf. It looks down on the living room.

[azslim]

don't think there is much you can do to it, too weathered, just keep it inside and make up a lie about the 100 walk and crawling to a water hole with your last strength and finding it beside a rattlesnake you killed with a stick then ate

[wildwoody]

+1

[Kaffer62]

I'll give you $20...... And a map to where several monster bucks live

[Seldom Drawn]

Take it to a taxidermy let them mount it and sell it,i was offered $3,500 dollars one time to do this.WM didn't even care to look at the kill site,

still bugs me to this day looked like it was poached but he really didn't care.

[Pine Donkey]

Go to the Catalina's, shoot a lion, use the ram skull as part of the habitat in a very realistic full body mount!

[johnnie blaze]

Go to the Catalina's, shoot a lion, use the ram skull as part of the habitat in a very realistic full body mount!

all the cats have died, I hear "they" are reintroducing lions next year.

[out2hunt]

Skull hooker!

[CouesPursuit]

talk to a taxadermist there are some oils you can apply to re moisten the horn and a little hidrogin proxide for the scull , but it does look great the way it is. goodluck

 

A natural oil application of some sort is the kind of info/possibility I was looking for in case I need it down the road. Thanks, wildwoody.

 

 

I think it looks awesome just like that! Great find! I suppose if you wanted to you could make a pedestal with some habitat features. That would look cool too. Thanks for posting.

 

 

Unless it continues to flake badly after being indoors, chances are he sits as is, eventually on a habitat mount. Thanks, Jimmer and all with the leave as-is recommendation.