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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EFsDad" data-source="post: 1356536" data-attributes="member: 2950">Let me explain a little better...Everyone should be shooting for meat first and foremost, but if you do shoot a monster, is it just good deer burger and some monster back straps or is it a wall hanger conversational piece and the meat?  My dad is big into mounted game.  I remember having a snow, greater Canadian and speckle-belly in the landing arch in mom and dad's room when I was the age of the little guy to the left.  He has a picture of him and a hunting buddy in a barn with 40 coyote pelts hanging from a season's hunt.  He has goose head, Deer hoof and elk hoof bookends.  He has probably 20 different skulls, turtle shells, 5 different pelts, etc.  Many duck mounts.  He has coon tails, coyote tails, fox tails.  We have a moose antler from my great-uncle.  He has probably 20 tanned buckskins.  Between me, my Dad and my brother, we have 23 shoulder mounts and probably 40 skull caps (Dad even does spikes that my Mom and my niece have taken) and easily 30 turkey beards.  When I was a kid, he had a collection of catfish heads.  So, it is just second nature to me.  You hunt.  If your lucky you kill.  You always take a picture and then you keep a memento of the kill. Granted we don't keep anything from possums, armadillos, skunks or crows. He even has pictures on the walls of a nice 10 point we had on a game cam that he shot and it was down dragging itself with its front legs after he shot it.  He let it sit for 30 minutes and when he started to walk up to it (without his gun) it jumps up when he is 30 yards away and takes off.</blockquote>

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