What do you do when you run out of wall space for your trophies?

I don't have that dilemma, yet...would love to. But, I'd start eliminating the birds and only mount bucks a certain score or higher. I don't like the clutter look/feel.

We have five bucks mounted. Wont get any more mounted unless they're bigger then what I have (unless my first bow buck is decent).

(We currently have, five buck, two coyotes, a turkey and a pheasant)

Congrats on your successful hunts.

 

Too many birds up on the walls.

 

Aren't you like 24? how have you had time to acquire such a collection?!

 

Stop mounting everything. Especially the fish.

 

I think big fish are great trophies to have up on the wall. But, birds not so much

 

Every mount that is in there is in there for a reason. I don't mount them for just because of size but for the story and the memory. For instance, the northern is my sisters. She passed away in a car accident when she was 16 so that will never come off the wall.

On a lighter note, the smallest buck to the right of the tv. I shot that buck with me fiancé standing on the one man tree stand as I was but that is a story for another thread.

I'll be moving soon and my main criteria for a new house will be high ceilings and plenty of space... I haven't even started hunting out west yet.

 

I've been hunting since I was twelve.

 

Throw my wife and kids out so I have more space!!LOL Hold out for bigger deer!!!!!

 

Some people actually kill game every year when they hunt. I say some people because until last year I was on about a 6 year buck drought LOL.

I have a 12x16 building I am turning into my area. I'll put some mounts there because it will be heated/cooled and sealed up pretty well. Not much room there but our old house is small (24x39) with low ceilings. So I can't fit many mounts in here anyway.

Nice collection man. I am with Fitz though, too many birds and plates LOL. Kidding.

 

I hear ya guys though. The plates will be the first to go and if I got to do it over again I would not have mounted so many turkeys or the geese.

 

The garage is my over flow at the moment...

 

I have 5 in my garage as well. I don't have any in the house at the moment but once I finish my basement man cave, that's where they will go.

 

I have a few piled up in the corner in the room that I keep my mounts in. The wall in that room I can hang them in is pretty much stacked top to bottom. The other wall has a closet and man door, the other is all window and the other is pretty much unusable as well due to the man door when it is open, a gun safe and the couch.

 

1st world people's problems.

 

I quit mounting stuff period for the most part. Euro skulls are it for me really. When you die your family has to throw it all away and I can do most hunts again for the price of a mount. I can't imagine where I would put everything if I really would have mounted 2 bears, 2 antelope, a Mule Deer, 3 Blacktail Deer, a Caribou, an Elk, and half a dozen or so whitetail bucks along w several dozen turkey. I'm 24 and money is an issue as well tho. If I had enough room and money was no issue id consider mounting more animals than I do. The photos are way more important to me than the actual skulls themselves.

 

I have had to start moving to different rooms and squeezing them together better on the walls

 

Not really gonna be a problem for me for a long time. I only have 3 shoulder mounts, and two euro's. But, I have vaulted ceilings that go up to 18 feet and plenty of wall space to go with it.

 

I fixed it for you!

 

HAH, well the basement is unfinished and I'm finishing it so it's not usable space right now anyway. Besides, I'm the king of my castle (Shhh - don't repeat that). I actually don't prefer mounts in the living room/family room, it wouldn't match the...uhh, did I just turn ?