General Hunting Discussion
Where/How To Store Taxidermy
8/24/14 @ 4:00 PM
I had a finished basement in my last house where I used to keep my mounts. We recently moved and I don't have a good place to display them in the new house. I took them up to the cabin and plan to eventually hang them up there but I can't do that right now as my folks live there in summer and my mom is a bit freaked out by the heads of animals hanging on the walls staring at her (LOL). I have them wrapped in a double heavy duty garbage bag and safely placed on a shelf in the pole shed. We don't have a mouse problem in the shed but I know that one or two have made it in through open doors in winter a few times since it was built. I'm concerned about mice chewing on the antlers. My only other option is to put them in the rafters above the garage but it gets plenty warm up there in summer.
I'd like to just hang them on the wall but that's not an option for a few years. What is the best way to store my mounts until I can do so? Thanks as always.
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I am assuming you have central air in your house. Why not just hang them in your basement, unfinished or not? I have 4 nice bucks down in mine that got bumped from the living room by bigger ones over the years. They are hanging in my workshop area but I know they are safe there. If you don't have a basement, sorry for your loss..... Mrt.
Maybe this is uncommon, but I have a half dozen or so sets of antlers with the fur covered skull cap attached hanging up on the studs of my pole barn, which I unhappily admit is totally unprotected from mice, and none of the antlers have been touched. The fur, however, has been totally robbed by those varmints for their nests.
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