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Sounds like you have everything covered. Your outfitter seems to have a handle on how to handle the waterfowl’s dip & pack as well, that would be my biggest concern and them showing up in a mountable condition. I’ve seen some of Cody Bellingers work and it’s definitely top shelf! Anxious to...

Who is going to mount the birds? I’ve looked around South Africa for even a decent bird taxidermist and have found none and not to sure how dip&pack bird skins would fair in the rehydration process.

Warthog can grow on you, especially when they have 10+” of tooth sticking out of that magnificent ugly face!

Waterbuck are a very proud and regal antelope to me. If properly skinned they taste fine, someone needs to pull the skin back while the skinner does his knife work to avoid getting the hair oil on the meat.

Totally understand about the buffalo, not sure I could ever do it through. I had a hard time leaving a couple of common reedbuck behind in Mozambique way back in 2014, one of which was bigger than the one I shot as a trophy years later. With that being said I’m a taxidermy addict! Just can’t...

On my last shipment in ‘22 I received 3 quotes, 2 were roughly the same and the third saved about $750. I wish everyone would shop around.

I just paid the balance on my trophies from August ‘25, waiting on some shipping quotes. Not really looking forward to that. The crate will be medium/large with blue and black wildebeest, tsessebe, hartebeest, impala and springbok. Coming from Johanasburg to Atlanta. What route did your...

@dchum I like the mount just fine. If I ever kill a dik-dik I will probably full body him to show off the blue colors on the back but the back skin is an option as well.

Go shoot another one! (Someday)

Preach it brother, the last thing I want in a buffalo is a clean buffalo!

Great work, sir!

Fine animals! Really like the impala

Or you can buy a nice piece of property , fix up an old house trailer and have a trophy room annex!

Holy cats!! I wonder if a lioness form can be used? I would love to see an accurate age on that cat.

I was thinking the same thing.

Yes, my brother in law has a preferred captain he’s been fishing with for years. I like Spanish as well, about 3 weeks ago we trolled from the marina to the bait boat and caught 22 before heading out in the Gulf.

Another good day on the Gulf out of PCB. Amberjack, vermilion, red and mangrove snapper, triggerfish, red grouper and a speckled hind. First hind I’ve seen in the Gulf in 50 years+ of fishing.

Great work as always!

Best of luck to you! Looking forward to the whole story on your return.

I think @SCHUNTER73 covered it WOW!

Can you make Kim-chi in that thing?

What a bull, I bet he had a neck ache carrying all of that horn on his head! Good thing you settled his troubles for him.

He claims the money will come from tariff revenue, I call BS. If we are collecting so much cash from these tariffs use the freaking money to try and pay down the debt.

Sorry to hear about your troubles, I wouldn’t completely right off your trophies. Granted they have an absolutely atrocious track record there have been several people in the same boat as you. Eventually they did receive their trophies. One recently also waited 3 years the thread is “after 3...

If it wasn’t opening day, I’d say come on down. The guy that owns the property always has a full house on the opener.

Our dove opener is Saturday, I went and mowed the camp this afternoon and watched the sunflower field. Lots of birds, should be a good time!

@375 Ruger Fan , that’s a great layout!

Every now and again I take a few weeks off from the politics thread. I came back this morning to see it hasn’t changed. But this post from @mdwest was one of the most insightful posts that I’ve seen. It pretty much fits my thoughts to a T.

Congratulations!! What a wonderful trip to spend with your son, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Marvelous trophies and memories, y’all will cherish those memories forever. I’ve hunted coastal Moz and can’t wait to return someday.

I really enjoy woodworking but I’m not very good at it. I pretty much confine myself to building bluebird boxes and wood duck/blackbellied whistling duck nest boxes. They don’t seem to mind my lack of skill. My father was a gifted woodworker, he made a lot of our furniture and tables for my...

I just received some pictures of my animals ready to be crated, now the juices are really flowing in anticipation!

Here’s a few different wall pedestal mounts, the roan could be converted to a wall pedestal fairly easily. My sable is the same. One thing I do on most of my wall pedestals is I use the Full Range Hanging System, they swivel and you can tweak them to get the angle you desire.

Many taxidermist in Africa use off set shoulder mount instead of wall pedestal. You described what you’re looking for very well and an attentive taxidermist should be able to mount it by your description. Have them send you pictures of the form before they mount him for your approval. They...

Congratulations, I’ve been keeping an eye out for an update. It looks as if everything is in good shape and are very eye appealing. I see what you mean about the impala, he’s beautiful as well as everything else. Congratulations again! It has my blood flowing waiting for my next shipment...

My very first African animal, my buffalo on my very first day hunting in Africa. Mozambique 2014 My toughest hunt in Africa. Up and down mountains in RSA on the Botswana border, a representative klipspringer. 2021

About 90% of the food we have in our freezer was caught, killed or grown by us. The only thing we “forage” would be the black berries, dew berries, scupodines and muscodines. We have a hundred or so blueberry bushes and my wife puts up around 15-20 gallons a year. I don’t care for the...

Great ram!

@Nyati , that hyena skull is pure bad assed!

I’m starting to get a few euros, baboon, bushpig, common reedbuck, and a javalina along with a feral hog and several whitetail. At onetime I had a nice black bear skull I killed in California but it was demolished in one of my moves.

I may have to try this!

Prime examples are black impala and springbok, from a distance the look pitch black to me but up close they have a lot of brown in them.

Great hunt! Congratulations

Great article! One of my waterfowl hunting buddies is a waterfowl biologist with the USFWS and he spends a couple of weeks every year banding birds on Midway. His focus is the Layson duck which is considered the rarest duck in the world. There’s only a couple hundred left. I don’t think the...

I don’t think I’ve ever seen mass on a waterbuck bull like that one ! Congratulations on a successful whirlwind trip.

Out freakin standing!!

Sautéed some vermillion snapper in butter and olive oil for a minute a side, then put a mix of crab meat, cheese and panko on top. Then covered the crab with a couple of fillets and baked for 20 minutes.

Yes

I was going to guess 10, any older and the tips would probably be worn a bit. No matter what that is a great bull!

Sounds parasitic, the test should figure it out IF they know what to look for. I only drink or brush my teeth with bottled water and don’t use ice unless the water is from a bottle and then put in trays to be frozen. Constipation has been an issue with my gut in the past on a couple of trips...

If so, it makes since. I’ve used the Wildlife Gallery and their work was very good but pricey.