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Need to shoot another one worth mounting, happy to meat hunt if I can need to stock up the freezer for now.

Finally done, so much work from the hunt, the carry and then the mount.
I'm pretty bloody stoked with how it came out. First ever attempt and I reckon I nailed it.

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She'll know my wife Katie then

Pretty happy with the skull now time to sort the hunk of tree I got from a mate
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Nope doesn't stink at all

3 hours in salon grade peroxide and its looking pretty good, I'll let it dry completely and re assess in the morning as to if it needs another soak in peroxide.
If not I'll paint the skull with a...

This is pretty much what I'm dealing with, should I leave it and just apply a matte clear coat ???

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is anyone on here able to offer advice on removing the horns to clean the membrane off the horn core ? if you look at the horn on the right in the last photo you can see it's quiet damaged from...

Another 3 hours boiling with the foil over the top did the trick gave it another pressure wash and it's come up pretty mint.
Just the whitening process and mounting to do now.
Gotta find me a nice...

Once you are on them they are not hard to stalk, the terrain on my hunt was the biggest challenge, but only because we wanted to recover some for meat and of course the head.
I'm well aware that...

Old Billy was getting a bit paranoid what with his brains being dissolved and all and decided to Don a tin foil hat to keep the spooks at bay (I know flirting with politics) also must help keep the...

Gave the head a boil last night but it was pretty cold and the gas ring I'd managed to borrow was just able to maintain a gentle simmer.
Left the head in water overnight to keep it juicy, gave it a...

Already planning another trip back we got unfinished business :killzonesmiley:

planenutz not too sure, his teeth are actually in really good nic so not 100% sure but best guess is between 10 and 16 years neither me or stug were up to skill with ageing goats

planenutz went out to stug today and measured up my Billy he came in at a respectable 96 DS score so not one for the official record books but still a great specimen I will be proud to hang on my...

Absolutely mate not out to wound animals and would only try in ideal circumstances

223nut nah I never wished for more than my single shooter even though my hands were freezing it just made me really concentrate on shot placement and wait for good targets rather than just spraying...

stug I am also in Oxford would you like to have a go at scoring him

Flyblown this Billy was with a mob of young nanny's and kids and his horns definitely show signs of active fighting. He definitely stank up a storm and yeah his dreads were dragging on the ground for...

planenutz any idea how old my Billy would be ?

Yup we measured him up last night when I got home 29" Mathias

It sure was very character testing

The happy ending is that when I got home tonight and measured his horns he was 29" and a proper trophy worthy of the effort to retrieve him

We then packed the goats and set about getting out as daylight was already fading. It was an arduous task and I knew the final push was gonna suck.
The final push was 250m of near vertical tussock,...

The face we were shooting was crazy steep and a little out of my comfort zone being pretty inexperienced we discussed it and agreed I would be better to save my energy for the climb out.
My 2 mates...