STGS brought me this elk and wanted the horns on a panel. He didn't have any idea that I was doing this until I took it to him this weekend.
I had an extra elk cape, that was taking up freezer space, so I decided to do what I think a pack mount should look like.
The rustic packs are cool, but no one carries a wooden pack frame into the mountains; I used a modern, aluminum pack frame. Typically, you'd carry a head this big, with the antlers pointed down, but I figured that would be a little much, so I used a BogPod to keep the antlers in place. I cast an elk tongue that CastandBlast brought back from his successful elk hunt on STGS's New Mexico Ranch. Most of the pack mounts that I've seen just used regular eyes, but dead eyes are much different since the pupil fully dilates when the animal dies. I had custom eyes painted to reflect that change.
To my surprise, he didn't get mad at me for not giving him what he asked for. From bits of the conversation between Jeremy, his dad and brother, I think the mount will be hung in their ranch house, in NM, where the elk was killed.
I had an extra elk cape, that was taking up freezer space, so I decided to do what I think a pack mount should look like.
The rustic packs are cool, but no one carries a wooden pack frame into the mountains; I used a modern, aluminum pack frame. Typically, you'd carry a head this big, with the antlers pointed down, but I figured that would be a little much, so I used a BogPod to keep the antlers in place. I cast an elk tongue that CastandBlast brought back from his successful elk hunt on STGS's New Mexico Ranch. Most of the pack mounts that I've seen just used regular eyes, but dead eyes are much different since the pupil fully dilates when the animal dies. I had custom eyes painted to reflect that change.
To my surprise, he didn't get mad at me for not giving him what he asked for. From bits of the conversation between Jeremy, his dad and brother, I think the mount will be hung in their ranch house, in NM, where the elk was killed.
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