Unless you have the means to build a truly enormous trophy room/building or establish a museum, most people who hunt a lot get to this point eventually. You can postpone the day a while by not doing as much real taxidermy - save that for special things - and do Euro's for the remainder. For instance, I don't have a single shoulder mount of a deer. However, even that will only buy time. You can quit hunting - and I have a couple of friends who won't go back to Africa because there is no room for additional taxidermy - but I refuse to do that. I also don't like the look of every bit of wall space containing an animal. I like to mix mounts with art and artifacts.
So, I don't try to keep everything anymore. One animal more or less will make no difference to whomever visits, but I do like the memory aides. So instead, I use Shutterfly https://www.shutterfly.com/ to build a photo-journal of every hunt. The animals that I hunted, the people I came to know, even my thoughts and feelings of the moment are recorded there. I am also 66 and mortality has a way of creeping into one's thoughts. Most taxidermy will simply be a burden to a family. Grandchildren say nice things, but how many children and grandchildren are really going to want the old man's dead fill in the blank hanging around the condominium? The photo-journals, on the other hand, might indeed be something families would actually cherish. I know I would have loved to have had something similar from my father or grandfather. And if they don't, well they are much easier to dispose of than a dead Kudu.
The hunting journals are on the coffee table in the trophy room/ guest house, and our vacation journals are on the coffee table of the great room. The journals have also formed the basis for several articles that are also a way to preserve the memory of the adventure.
So, I don't try to keep everything anymore. One animal more or less will make no difference to whomever visits, but I do like the memory aides. So instead, I use Shutterfly https://www.shutterfly.com/ to build a photo-journal of every hunt. The animals that I hunted, the people I came to know, even my thoughts and feelings of the moment are recorded there. I am also 66 and mortality has a way of creeping into one's thoughts. Most taxidermy will simply be a burden to a family. Grandchildren say nice things, but how many children and grandchildren are really going to want the old man's dead fill in the blank hanging around the condominium? The photo-journals, on the other hand, might indeed be something families would actually cherish. I know I would have loved to have had something similar from my father or grandfather. And if they don't, well they are much easier to dispose of than a dead Kudu.
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The hunting journals are on the coffee table in the trophy room/ guest house, and our vacation journals are on the coffee table of the great room. The journals have also formed the basis for several articles that are also a way to preserve the memory of the adventure.
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