Stag Skull Mount

[kevhumps]

I've got a couple of Red Stag skulls that i've cleaned and bleached, I was wondering if the skulls are usually cut, like a Roe skull, or mounted whole?
Thanks!
Kev.

 

[375 mag]

I cut mine the same as my Roe long nose cut !

 

[kevhumps]

Thanks, I'm thinking that a cut will give a better angle to the antlers. Don't suppose anyone knows where to download a shield template.
Kev.

 

[goathunter1]

Hunting in France recently, they seem to cut them a little differently. Yes, the long nose (European?) mount but they cut the back of the skull somewhat square and put that on the board so that the skull sits out and shows the antlers off. Interesting.

 

[limulus]

these any good to you kev?

 

[kevhumps]

these any good to you kev?

Thankyou, I'll see if i can copy and enlarge em !
Kev.

 

[limulus]

Set print size to 100% of the size of paper you're printing on or enlarge to fill page...depends on the printer used.

 

[DAThornley]

just what ive been after, got my first big stag last week, just waiting for it to be cleaned off so i can cut it and have it mounted thanks for the templates, will make one this weekend

 

[Treeehorse]

I always think that a good trophy looks better with a full skull left on, seen lots in NZ and now do it to any good fallow I get. I mount them with a small loop of wire out of the brain cavity. If the skull is cut then put onto a shield. Like this:

You might think differently though...

 

[stalker.308]

I always think that a good trophy looks better with a full skull left on, seen lots in NZ and now do it to any good fallow I get. I mount them with a small loop of wire out of the brain cavity. If the skull is cut then put onto a shield. Like this:
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You might think differently though...

Is that a pic of trophies in your place treeehorse? If so how has than been carved on that fallow antler?

 

[Treeehorse]

Is that a pic of trophies in your place treeehorse? If so how has than been carved on that fallow antler?

Yes thats some of my collection. That fallow antler was a result of a search for casts a couple of years ago with a walking stick maker. We found plenty in a park and he cut off the forks for stick handles and offloaded a few of the palms back to me. I wanted to draw, then etch in a fallow deer image, but soon realised I couldn't do it well enough. So I searched the internet for fallow drawings to copy, found a perfect sketch by a tattoo artist from Milton Keynes (?), emailed him asking what he would charge to do a similar one onto a fallow antler. He agreed to do it and I cleaned/sanded off a blank patch on the better palm and he drew that on. Its a mix of ink and pencil and is yet to be sealed properly. I wanted it done in Indian ink, but he couldn't get the depth so settled on pencil. I'll probably seal it with Danish Oil. Should give a matt finish and protect the pencil.
He charged £80. I posted to him, he posted back. A bargain I thought!
My only minor complaint is that he drew the body of a Red Stag, then put fallow antlers on it, whereas the image I found on the internet was the spitting image of a fallow.

This is about as good as I can do. A small piece of 'scrimashaw'. I sketched a bull Tahr, scratched it into the antler surface with a needle, then painted the whole surface black, then sanded the paint away to leave the image. Fairly primitive I know but its now my keyring.

 

[Boghossian]

Nice work Treeehorse, good to see you on these forums too. Great fallow collection btw.

 

[DAThornley]

those templates were very good limulus, just done one tonight for the red stag i got last month, rotted off nicely just needs sawing off and fixing