My son's 8 pt Euro Mount

[fasteddie]

My son took his 9 year old son with him to his camp in Italy Valley . He shot an 8 pt and my grandson claimed it as "his" deer . My son had a guy in Bloomfield do the mount and my son made the plaque / mounting board and put it in Cameron's room .

 

 

[Paula]

Love the way it's mounted.

I hear they are not euros,they have been called Westerns for years.

[fasteddie]

Uhhhhhhh , I think this is a Western Euro .........

[Paula]

They have been called western for over 30 years that i know of, and taxidermists out west offer both styles at different prices. Easy to look them up on web ,us easterners are making everything generic but there was and is a difference .http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_mounts

[fasteddie]

Well , apparently all the Taxidermists are wrong ! They call them Euro mounts and that is what they write on the receipt .

A Western Mount is what the cowboys ride !

[Lawdwaz]

Well , apparently all the Taxidermists are wrong ! They call them Euro mounts and that is what they write on the receipt .

A Western Mount is what the cowboys ride !

 

[G-Man]

https://books.google.com/books?id=zmoCGEO-nrMC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=german+methods+of+mounting+skulls&source=bl&ots=h7fDUukjQD&sig=exrsBCWpyYMmQnuV_kndCQY-S1k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q-GgVKbEGYGbgwS-2YOoDw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwDjgK#v=onepage&q=german%20methods%20of%20mounting%20skulls&f=false     here is the original european cut circa 1970, this was know as european, the american version with teeth was called western...

 

[G-Man]

As for taxidermist being wrong, the improper use of the word european. had become so common it has nearly lost its meaning as magazines and media falsly perpetuate it. i especially like how the article said it was RARE to mount this way in the us, we american got lazy in not removing the upper pallet, i'm sure if i looked i could find approximate year the word use changed.

One must remember its a lot easier to remove brain and nasel matter with upper pallet removed, especially when there were not many dermested beatles around for use (museums maybe)... the old method used would last much longer and be much cleaner ...For the older taxidermists 60-70 plus years old this new method was known western or american, to us its common.  The change in would use would be a good paper for a college english major........

Edited December 29, 2014 by G-Man

[hunter49]

  Well what ever it's called, it's a nice mount for the 9yr. old with "his" deer, congrats to him!