What else is in your trophy room?

[RR 314]

Some of you boys must be single . . . Or just not as scared of your wives as I am of mine. .

 

[WAB]

We have just moved, and most everything is in storage as we will build this house. All the great trophy room pictures inspired me to want to share something that is etched into the lobby of the American Natural History Museum in NY. I doubt very many visitors even take notice of the meaning, and even more likely disagree, but I think it may resonate here. View attachment 557033

Outstanding!

 

[WAB]

show a pic when you get a chance. we had smaller, bookshelf windup clocks too but one (ancestors cursing me now...it was so dried out from being on mantels that it fell apart-i just used it as starter wood one cold eve!) lol it looked like a Cathedral w/ pointy spires atop...like a mini-grandfather clock. table top version.

It’s the clock on the shelf in this pic. Very cool lions heads on the sides. I found it in the attic of our farmhouse where my grandmother put it when she got her new chrome clock!

 

[Safari Dave]

Pictures
Some books (Rowland Ward, SCI, IGFA, etc.)
Recovered bullets
Recovered broadheads
A few fishing mementos
Photo albums
This lamp that I commissioned, but still can't explain what I was thinking at the time...

I have a problem controlling myself, when I am happy!

 

[Hunt anything]

Some of you boys must be single . . . Or just not as scared of your wives as I am of mine. .

When your wife talks you into shooting a waterbuck (2018) and a gemsbok (2021) as mine did you know you have a keeper. Of course when they show up in a crate to be put on the wall it’s “what was I thinking”

 

[Safari Dave]

My wife nearly talked me into shooting a half-grown waterbuck!

 

[RR 314]

When your wife talks you into shooting a waterbuck (2018) and a gemsbok (2021) as mine did you know you have a keeper. Of course when they show up in a crate to be put on the wall it’s “what was I thinking”

Mine is certainly a keeper as well . . . she just balked at lifesize sable and buffalo.

 

[Rimbaud]

you are correct, and where's that statue of he and the natives (American and African!) smh. 'been many times w/ the kids when they were kids....the things LibDemTards have to do to scam votes....SMFH!

Incredibly, the statue out front was deemed so offensive that it was removed. I believe South Dakota has it now. In recent years, the museum has amended the narratives around many displays to contextualize the dioramas that showed conquerors and natives. I was ready to be put off by the politically correct stuff, but was pleasantly surprised as the PC stuff added a different perspective to history. All that said, I was prepared to offer to have the TR statue at my house.

 

[C.W. Richter]

Incredibly, the statue out front was deemed so offensive that it was removed. I believe South Dakota has it now. In recent years, the museum has amended the narratives around many displays to contextualize the dioramas that showed conquerors and natives. I was ready to be put off by the politically correct stuff, but was pleasantly surprised as the PC stuff added a different perspective to history. All that said, I was prepared to offer to have the TR statue at my house.

yes, i'm well aware of that thus the sarcastic inquiry! lol i've read everything he wrote, and many others written by others about him, and the main reason he's featured so much is that he and his well-rounded fellows collected all of those displays! do they not deserve the utmost respect? Not from inner-city libdemtards scamming votes!

 

[C.W. Richter]

i too wanted to bid on it but my level of business got even crazier...lol i understand they found a home somewhere where it's scary for dems to exist. i'm hoping you moved OUT of NYC not IN! ? ?? ??? No one does that anymore...property values by me have doubled since covid and this administration. I'm retiring and moving farther back in the bush!

 

[Ontario Hunter]

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It’s the clock on the shelf in this pic. Very cool lions heads on the sides. I found it in the attic of our farmhouse where my grandmother put it when she got her new chrome clock!

That's a lawyer's desk. It has the arched cutout on front side so clients can move their chair up to the desk to view/sign documents.

 

[Lone Star Bluegrass]

I’m a big fan of barrister book cases. They double as display cabinets, and they’re easy to make taller/shorter if you move or redecorate.

 

[Scott CWO]

Some of you boys must be single . . . Or just not as scared of your wives as I am of mine. .

I ask you the same question that I ask our hunters when they tell me they probably won’t mount their trophy animal because their wives don’t like taxidermy or allow it in the house.

Does your wife make the mortgage payment by herself or do you?

 

[VertigoBE]

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Very tasteful

 

[mark-hunter]

Some of you boys must be single . . . Or just not as scared of your wives as I am of mine.

The key to happy marriage is tolerance, understanding and support to other halves decisions. I think that I am happy man, hoping to have achieved that.
If I see, I have opportunity to go to safari in next three months, I face no issues, as well as when I buy new rifle, or go to the range or local hunting.

But I fully understand the comment. I see that many of my acquittances live in a state of absolute matriarchate, which they publicly do not admit.

 

[Altitude sickness]

Three native American war clubs I carved. Top one is a Gunstock war club from American Chestnut (extinct)
Middle is Mulberry and the bottom is a Ball war club from Black Cherry

The mulberry and cherry were from trees I had cut years before. And the chestnut is from the beams used to build this room.

 

[Altitude sickness]

 

[fourfive8]

I have no trophy room so the animals, mostly skull mounts, are scattered around the house but somewhat separated into North American and African sections. I don't display my favorite Civil War "man motif" dust collectors because of theft vulnerability. Some the other non-taxidermy collectibles that are not appealing to thieves are displayed. My favorites are the sporting and folk art collectibles. I enjoy and appreciate the fish decoys even more than the waterfowl decoys.

Here's a small group of fish decoys by Ross Allen Sr., Leroy Howell, Frank Mizera and Oscar Peterson.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I have no trophy room so the animals, mostly skull mounts, are scattered around the house but somewhat separated into North American and African sections. I don't display my favorite Civil War "man motif" dust collectors because of theft vulnerability. Some the other non-taxidermy collectibles that are not appealing to thieves are displayed. My favorites are the sporting and folk art collectibles. I enjoy and appreciate the fish decoys even more than the waterfowl decoys.

Here's a small group of fish decoys by Ross Allen Sr., Leroy Howell, Frank Mizera and Oscar Peterson.
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That lilac colored spotted one must be for hippie pike?

 

[fourfive8]

That lilac colored spotted one must be for hippie pike?

Here ya go. "Pictures For Bigger Words"