2022 Safari taxidermy is getting done

[PARA45]

Looking at your hartebeest makes me think I want to wack me one next year!
They look great!

I hear ya. I’m glad I decided to take the back too.

 

[Mort Hill]

Dude! Just fabulous. Can’t wait to see them up.

 

[Rare Breed]

Well, the moment I've been waiting for has finally arrived. @gizmo (Top of Texas Taxidermy) texted me yesterday to inform me that he was already working on my mounts. So I asked him for pictures (or it did not happened ) to start a new taxidermy thread. Here are some of the pictures I received.

The buffalo ft will be cigar ashtrays.

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Picture of my Bushbuck drying.

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Picture of my Nyala drying.

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I'm super excited to see them finally getting done. More to come.

He does such awesome work and a great reputation for detail!!!

 

[Fatback]

Some fine trophies there. Looking forward to seeing them on your wall.

 

[Mike Van Horn]

Very nice Oscar

 

[PARA45]

Thank you gents, I can't wait to get my hands on them and figure out where to put them. I had seen @gizmo work on this forum which was one of the reasons I chose him. Plus, he is here in the US.

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

Looks awesome !
Erik and his team does great work.

 

[Nyati]

All are coming nicely Oscar

I made lamps with my buff forelegs.

 

[PARA45]

All are coming nicely Oscar

I made lamps with my buff forelegs.

Nice, do you mind sharing a picture of your lamps? A taxidermist friend in South Dakota made lamps out of white tail deer feet, and they were such a success she now makes them on a regular basis.

 

[Nyati]

There you go

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On the left you can see the buff´s scrotum with feathers

 

[Frederik]

May I be so bold to say that the warthog must be the best warthog taxidermy I have ever seen.
That Red Hartebeest comes close second.

 

[gizmo]

May I be so bold to say that the warthog must be the best warthog taxidermy I have ever seen.
That Red Hartebeest comes close second.

Thank you!

 

[PARA45]

There you go

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On the left you can see the buff´s scrotum with feathers

Thank you, I like the looks of it.

@gizmo, take note, we may have to do this next time.

 

[gizmo]

Thank you, I like the looks of it.

@gizmo, take note, we may have to do this next time.

No problem

 

[PARA45]

Well, everything is done and by the looks of the pictures they are beautiful mounts.

 

[PARA45]

Here are the rest.

This is a cigar ashtray made out of the cow buff ft, and barn wood from @gizmo’s farm.

 

[PARA45]

Last set. This is a hat rack made out of the Nyala’s ft and @gizmo farm barn wood. Fly swatters made out of the tails.

 

[Hunt anything]

What tails did he use? The black wildebeest and the nyala or hartebeest or kudu?

 

[PARA45]

If I remember correctly, i think rhe BW, Nyala and Kudu. I need to ask @gizmo.

 

[gizmo]

If I remember correctly, i think rhe BW, Nyala and Kudu. I need to ask @gizmo.

Yessir. That is correct