Thread: From old to new

A mate of mine from Palmerston North picked up this old 80+ year old head that was apparently shot in the Ruahines. He asked me to tidy it up a bit and i said no i can do better than that!

Scored 303" and 4/8 douglas, 41.5" long



New head skin was courtesy of another good fourm member here. Now re mounted to last another 100years.

That’s pretty. Very nice job and well worth the complete redo.

Outstanding work.that is a beautiful classic set of antlers.

Very well done indeed Bb.

all i can say is if someone out there finds me dead i hope its not Billbob

Very nice work!

Thanks all, was a fun one to do.
@gonetropo hahaha nope ill send you off to the wax works......

You have even got antler colour back to more natural look.outstanding effort.

Antlers were covered in shellac that they did in the old days so the tines were all yellow and yucky. That got all scraped off

Looks awesome as always mate

Well done a head well worth restoring

Unfortunately the history behind this stag we dont know, if anyone has any info on this that could help solve this please let me know.

Nice work , that’s how a top red trophy should look , beautiful

Looks more of an Otago head than Ruahine. Might have been a HB hunter that traveled south. Awesome head, great work in keeping it preserved.

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These older classic heads are pretty.
A real trophy

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