Maybe I need a taxidermist

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QuazyQuinton

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So my daughter has the youth bull tag this year, and I'm trying to nail down some details in preparation for the trip. One question that I need to figure out is what we will do with a head if she shoots a bull. I figure a spike warrants a plaque mount and a behemoth gets a shoulder mount, but somewhere in between would be best done as a Euro mount. Since Oregon prohibits bringing skills with nervous tissue attached from Utah, I need to know where I would take the head. Can anyone recommend someplace convenient that will do a Euro and won't break the bank and will maybe ship a finished skull to Oregon located in the Ogden area? That seems like our best plan, anyway.

And as always, if anyone knows where there is a nice bull tied to a tree somewhere....:cool:

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I asked this question on another forum for you and will get back to you when I get a couple of responses.

One thing that you could always do is to break the skull down yourself by just skinning it out and using a coat hanger to get the brains out.

Good luck to your daughter.
 
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Here are three that you can check out,

Dave Ferguson of Fergusons Taxidermy in Ogden, Jake’s Taxidermy in Plain city and Dave Butts of Butts Taxidermy in Willard

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Maybe go do that at the car wash on the other side of town? [emoji44][emoji38]

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When you are just traveling through a town you don't have to worry which side of town that car wash is located at. You'll be home when all the neighbors start getting that lovely smell.
 
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JimP said:
Here are three that you can check out,

Dave Ferguson of Fergusons Taxidermy in Ogden, Jake?s Taxidermy in Plain city and Dave Butts of Butts Taxidermy in Willard



When you are just traveling through a town you don't have to worry which side of town that car wash is located at. You'll be home when all the neighbors start getting that lovely smell.
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JimP said:
Here are three that you can check out,

Dave Ferguson of Fergusons Taxidermy in Ogden, Jake’s Taxidermy in Plain city and Dave Butts of Butts Taxidermy in Willard



When you are just traveling through a town you don't have to worry which side of town that car wash is located at. You'll be home when all the neighbors start getting that lovely smell.
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lol . I was going to say that I would bet the owner of that car wash would not appriciate that.

keep in mind , we hunters are ambassadors for our way of life and there are plenty who already hate us. no sense in giving them another when we don't need to.


kudos to you, Quazy, for having the foresite to think of a plan before you need it.
 
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I have been doing the car wash technique for many years. The debris rinses down the drain just like anything else off your vehicle and the detergents actually turn a skull very white. I live in a rural area where i guess most don't frown on that kind of thing.
 
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Actually a lot of car washes have a sump to catch all the solids instead of flushing them down to the towns sewer, for those smaller towns that don't have sewers but rely on septic tanks the sump is all there is.

Have you ever pulled into a car wash and got that real nice smell of something rotten?
 
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That youth any bull hunt in Utah can be one of the toughest hunts out there with the limited areas that you can hunt.
 
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I believe it's the time spent together and the memories that make he hunt.Cameras are the biggest help,lessons learned which will never be forgotten.Pass it on to the next generation...:cool:
 
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kidoggy said:
yep. the only bad hunt is the hunt never taken.
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100% agree. 15 years ago I did like 95% of the people that watched these forums. Read n dreamed.
I finally made the decision that if I can I will. I have no money in the bank now other than savings for the next outing. When it builds I spend it. I'm not a trophy hunter as my pictures show but the experiences I've enjoyed are priceless. Nearly all with my son and some with my daughter also. I refuse to have a truck payment for this reason only driving old stuff now.
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QuazyQuinton said:
Nothing to worry about. My daughter was unsuccessful, so there are no elk brains in anyone's car wash in Utah.

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I noticed a large increase in the Any Bull archery hunters this year. Last year there were two others guys and me in the area I hunt. This year I saw 7 from my tree stand. I believe a lot of the gun hunters bought the multi season tag and are trying to archery hunt.

Last year I saw 5 bulls opening day and the year before killed one second day. This year I did not see an elk and only saw sign of one bull wallowing (probably at night). This I saw no elk. I also do an increase of archery hunters on spike unit (I work on a spike unit).

I did buy a multi season tag so at least I can get out during the muzzy hunt and see if I can find a legal bull.
 
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