This Trophy Buck is down, meat is in the freezer. Lets talk about this Whitetail mount and its taxidermy. Most of us don’t shoot deer like this often so get the taxidermy right!

This deer will be an upright shoulder mount with head turned slightly right from the deer’s perspective. Neck is full mature and muscular in rut. There is a company in Texas that is creating my mount. After I receive my mount next year, I will share who did the work!

The “form” is called a shoulder manikin. It appears on the web that the largest supplier is McKenzie.  https://www.mckenziesp.com/Whitetail-Deer-C16.aspx

Manikins available for a shoulder wall mount are from the above website:

Upright

Semi-Upright

Semi-Sneak

Full Sneak

I chose Upright and right turn because I like that pose of alertness. I had to qualify how I wanted the ears too. Straight forward where the deer is looking. If you don’t do that you give licence to the taxidermist to do what they want i.e. one ear forward and the other listening backwards for example. or ears flat back as another example. I don’t want that pose so “be specific”!!!

I do not desire a wooden wall plaque either just the deer shoulder mount. If you want more like a habitat that surrounds your deer you can see them on the above website. Like below. I could do prickly pear cactus and cedar with sagebrush if I desire. Of course I can order and create that later if I wanted. But now you know the basic shoulder mounts. I did not cover other attributes as I wanted the reader to see what basics are out there for a Whitetail shoulder mount.

Good Hunting!