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04-16-2019, 08:30 AM | #23 | ||||||
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Posted for our own Scott Kittredge. These are his birds that he mounted himself.
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04-18-2019, 08:28 AM | #24 | ||||||
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Kansas quail mount
This mount is of birds from 2011. This was the first hunting season for my Gordon setter puppy at 9 months...RUBY she is now 8 years old and now a pro at Kansas quail. In my mount two birds were from the covey rise, a true double, one we followed up and the 4th bird was from the covey flush described in my first post that Steve had flushed. These are all hen birds by chance. Gunned with a Parker Reproduction with Merkel 28" 16ga barrels...(-: The deer sculls are from the same trip found in our Kansas hunting areas. The mount cost me 300.00 Real bargain... SXS ohio
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04-18-2019, 08:33 AM | #25 | ||||||
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Kenny, nice mount!
Did you change the chokes in those 16 gauge barrels? I remember you said they were “death on Kansas pheasants” a few years ago. .
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04-18-2019, 01:40 PM | #26 | ||||||
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NO...they are Mod/ X-full I shoot 4-s and 5-s and I miss few quail for the most part...(-: I have only lost one bird that got shot up and it flew right at me....)-: SXS Ohio
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04-18-2019, 02:21 PM | #27 | ||||||
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I have only ever mounted one bird - the one I showed earlier in this thread.
These are my very first longbeard and an early grouse, but I don't remember if it was a significant one. They were both taken in full view of the ridge "Toot Hill" in the sunrise picture between them in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. .
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04-18-2019, 03:01 PM | #28 | ||||||
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The problem with taxidermy is it does not stand up well to age. Maybe really well ones do. I have the snipe shown above and a deer. I also have a Diamondback rattlesnake skin that I am getting framed in order to preserve it. I will post pictures when done. It was 6 feet long and had four fangs. The head with the fangs are still in the science lab at my old school as of a few years ago.
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04-18-2019, 04:55 PM | #29 | |||||||
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We use either surgical staples, or a couple of cable ties, to secure the business end of the snake for aversion training. here are a few "in waiting" from a few years ago.
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04-18-2019, 05:05 PM | #30 | ||||||
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That is what we learned.
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