OW's NEW Trophy Room

[Outdoor Writer]

This is the NEW 14'x32' trophy room -- an addition to the old family room and kitchen. I did all the work except pour the concrete slab.

 

An overall look. The bear really enjoys watching fishing shows, so I have a hard time wresting the remote away from him.

 

 

Looking back toward the kitchen. The archway in the lower left leads to a 7'x10' alcove where the door to the backyard is. There's another archway at the opposite end that goes into the other trophy room, and the archway at the right side of the alcove goes into the kitchen area. The big archway is where the old house wall was.

 

 

This is the old family room that was remodeled when I did the addition. I had already remodeled the kitchen 4 years ago. I built the table using using wood from a couple old waterbeds. The thingie on the wall is made from the backskins of 10 sprinbok hides. There are also sprinbok hides on all the tables and the pillows have sprinbok hides as covers.

 

 

These are newer photos after I hung more mounts. L. to R.: springbok, bushbuck, chamois and tahr.

 

 

Next bunch are close-ups of all the mounts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BigMoqui]

That is one fine trophy room O.W. Maybe someday............ Hey where are Tahr native to? Are they an antelope or a goat? I'm thinking Asia. Doesn't matter they look good on the wall where ever they came from originally. Thanks for showing us.....droooooolllll.

[firstcoueswas80]

Hymalia or how ever the heck you spell it! ( him-a-laya)

[josh]

Very impressive! Where is the bear from? Also is that lion rug from AZ?Thanks again for the pics

[Outdoor Writer]

That is one fine trophy room O.W. Maybe someday............ Hey where are Tahr native to? Are they an antelope or a goat? I'm thinking Asia. Doesn't matter they look good on the wall where ever they came from originally. Thanks for showing us.....droooooolllll.

 

The tahr in NZ -- Hemitragus jemlahicus -- are native to the Himalayas. They are basically goats and were first introduced in NZ for sport hunting during the early part of the last century -- i.e. early 1900s. Both the chamois and the red deer are natives of Europe and were also introduced there for the same reason about the same time.

 

Now they are considered pests, and the government has done all it can to rid them from public lands. They shoot oodles of them from helicopters and even use poison on them.

 

On PUBLIC land, no hunting license is necessary to hunt any of these, and there's no limit on many one can kill. BUT...the biggest stags are all on private ranches, and they normally charge by the inch using the SCI system of gold medal, silver medal, etc. The one I killed is a silver medal under the SCI system.

 

The only hunting license required in NZ is for waterfowl, and that is available FREE at any game department office. Both rabbits and possums are like a plague. You can kill dozens of them in a few hours after dark using a spotlight and .22, which is also legal there. Same for the wallaby.

-TONY

[CouesWhitetail]

Beautiful! When are we going to have a CW.com get together at your house Tony? Seems like lots of folks here would love to see your trophies in person!!

[Outdoor Writer]

Very impressive! Where is the bear from? Also is that lion rug from AZ?Thanks again for the pics

 

Josh,

 

See the More of OW's Dead Critters thread. -TONY

[Hunterdan]

Very nice collection.