Do you keep all your heads?

[Heym SR20]

I keep most decent heads and especially those of memorable stalks. I don’t keep the whole head but take a long nose skull with a cut from the nose to centre of eye socket. I write date and place on back of each.

I also keep all the meat which then goes to the landowner, our own and to friends, neighbours and family. I think best way to bring others over to understanding what we do is via their plate, one delicious mouth at a time.

 

[tackb]

i kept the first head of each species i shot for the memories thats all

 

[Dazb1967]

I don’t bother keeping them, I have too many hobbies and my walls would soon be filled with Bass Heads/Cod Heads/Halibut Heads/Fox Heads/Deer Heads and the list goes on so just don’t bother

 

[Tim.243]

I don’t bother keeping them, I have too many hobbies and my walls would soon be filled with Bass Heads/Cod Heads/Halibut Heads/Fox Heads/Deer Heads and the list goes on so just don’t bother

You missed out bullet heads lol

 

[VSS]

It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the result of this poll and the number of years people have been stalking (or number of deer shot).
I suspect that anyone just starting out is likely to keep everything. After a year or so this might reduce to males only, or first male of each species. A few more years experience and it's probably down to medals only, or anything abnormal or particularly interesting. And so on.

 

[JockStalk]

First stag, first roebuck. Rest are discarded unless a pal I’m with wants it.

 

[ofbiro]

I filled the few available space (and Mrs. Ofbiro patience) with enough heads. Maybe I have space for 1 set of boar tusks, but they are as rare in my place ad seals in the Mediterrenean.

 

[dpaterson]

I keep special ones, various reason make them special.

Much the same for me.

 

[Sol]

It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the result of this poll and the number of years people have been stalking (or number of deer shot).
I suspect that anyone just starting out is likely to keep everything. After a year or so this might reduce to males only, or first male of each species. A few more years experience and it's probably down to medals only, or anything abnormal or particularly interesting. And so on.

Would be cool to see! I bet so too, same time someone local too me still keeps half a dozen heads of average even small-ish bucks, all in the stalk and memory for himself.

Has a few golds, but the bronze Is the one that got mounted.... thing loved to jump that stone wall right as he was about to shoot! took him shooting another buck dragging along the road and there it was staring at him.

 

[Rodeer]

I've always found antlers interesting and it helps me immortalise the memory of the stalk. Now I've got too many on the wall and it's causing marital issues

 

[Ratel]

One Fallow head over front door and one special Roe that I knew from kid to 8 years old when I shot him. Used to have dozens of four species but got rid of them over 15 or so years.

 

[Dan Newcombe]

I’ve never kept anything, holds no interest for me. I do have a pair of sticks with roe antlers on from a deer I shot a very long time ago and my wife has a mounted head from a buck she shot the night before our first son was born and her first red stag but otherwise nothing at all.

 

[Twodogs]

No option for keep nothing at all.

 

[Phil fingers]

1st male species i shoot have to go on the wall. Roe buck hung, sika stag at the taxidermist and hope to get a mount of the other 4 in time. Only got back into stalking last year properly so I'm certainly not overwhelmed by heads. The wife has them decorating the garden (once I've done the boiling and cleaning that is)

 

[johndeere]

The memorable ones I try to save everything else dog chews or Chinese medicine

 

[Sandy25]

Have kept all the MJ bucks that i have shot so far, as I find it interesting to keep a record of the bucks that I have shot off a particular piece of ground. Only fallow I have shot so far have been prickets so haven't bothered keeping any heads, and also being very transient not sure it would help my records. Not shot any Roe yet as nice to see them around, and the 6 pointer I have seen is too good to take!

Regards,

Sandy

 

[paul o']

When I did I'd only keep the odd ones.

 

[Heym SR20]

I keep a photo record of everything I shoot.

Heads - I keep anything that is half decent, or a particularly memorable stalk.

I definitely keep the venison.

 

[Sol]

Speaking of that today I got my first double not sure if I'd keep the doe I was more-so curious about her age via jaw, but I did shoot a one antlered buck that actually shed as I shot it.
Obviously I'm keeping it even if Its a dinky 1 1/2 *maybe* 2 1/2 2pt that isn't even the size of my palm but hey Its memorable!

there sat in the slow cooker as I speak kind of handy he shed his antler so much easier to do roe and sorts in them! really coinvent that he shed as he went down too and not whilst he was sprinting across the moor

 

[Morkai]

Speaking of that today I got my first double not sure if I'd keep the doe I was more-so curious about her age via jaw, but I did shoot a one antlered buck that actually shed as I shot it.
Obviously I'm keeping it even if Its a dinky 1 1/2 *maybe* 2 1/2 2pt that isn't even the size of my palm but hey Its memorable!

there sat in the slow cooker as I speak kind of handy he shed his antler so much easier to do roe and sorts in them! really coinvent that he shed as he went down too and not whilst he was sprinting across the moor

Well done, Sol. How are they looking now?