Got a box from Africa today
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From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
It's like Christmas all over again.
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Ucsdryder
09-Feb-19
Ok my interest is piqued!!!
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Crazy packing job
Crazy packing job
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Had a LITTLE help!!
From: Timbrhuntr
09-Feb-19
wow i hate to think what that would cost to ship to Canada lol
very cool are they all yours
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Having a fun day setting all this up and unpacking. The taxidermy seems to be done very well I'm pleased with it.
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Taking a short break for lunch after we got the pedestal Mount set up and in the living room. My son's kudu is the one on the left and it's a true world-class trophy 62 in. Mine was only 60 LOL.
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Not sure how to turn these guys to make them look the best.
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
The zebra was the animal that I most wanted to take while I was there and proved to be the most difficult to shoot with a bow.
From: bowbender77
09-Feb-19
Forest: Are those from a 2017 trip ?
From: Eric Vaillancourt
09-Feb-19
Well done!
From: Dale06
09-Feb-19
Very nice!
From: Drahthaar
09-Feb-19
Only 60" HA, looking good . Forrest
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Yes 2017 trip. My son and I shot 17 animals.
From: Charlie Rehor
09-Feb-19
Wowser! What a great way to spend a Saturday! Congrats! Enjoy your blessings! C
PS: Pups look to be having fun too!!
From: altitude sick
09-Feb-19
That is a cool Kudu pedestal. Very nice
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Back at it. The gemsbok put together and hung up. this is what my son really wanted to take why we were there and he took a great one it's the one on the left right at 40 in.
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Aubs8
09-Feb-19
Very cool! Congratulations!
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Big red is up
From: orionsbrother
09-Feb-19
Very nice! Congratulations!
From: TreeWalker
09-Feb-19
Fantastic! Really like the cutouts with hide placed behind.
From: Polly
09-Feb-19
Very Nice, they look Great.
From: Quinn @work
09-Feb-19
Congrats Forest. I like the space you have to display!
From: Ucsdryder
09-Feb-19
Cool wall! My favorite is the lion. A good mountain lion mount draws the eye.
From: Nick Muche
09-Feb-19
Very nice! Looks like you need a Sitka Blacktail yet ??
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Yes Nick I need a Sitka I'll have a Colombian this fall
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Blessbuck is up and so is this 24" Impala
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
I got great video of this Wart hog jumping in the water after I shot him.
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: standswittaknife
09-Feb-19
Very cool!! Congrats Forest..
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
This was a great wildebeest that the guy I was hunting with called a golden wildebeest. He had blond or golden face features. I decided not to get him mounted because I didn't feel like I was going to have room for him I'm kind of glad I didn't LOL.
From: Pyrannah
09-Feb-19
I’d guess he works for it but not really our business though eh?
From: Bou'bound
09-Feb-19
Who has that kind of money to toss on hunts?
Guys a lot more financially stable than you is who
We know you are Tbm.
From: patience2spare
09-Feb-19
Biggie_bucks - apparently Forest does and I say: MORE POWER TO HIM! Now why don't you take your short-sighted, jealous agenda somewhere else!!!!
Thanks for sharing Forest. Congratulations on many incredible trophies and memories with your son! Pete
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
I'm a stonemason. We make all the money and get all the girls!
From: Buffalo1
09-Feb-19
Very nice trophies and nice mounting of trophies.
Opening that crate was like Christmas morning as a kid wasn't it ?
What memories you have there to enjoy. Congrats
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
Done for the day. Another nice Euro Mount Impala and Euro warthog. my wife and I are trying to figure out ideas to do with all of the back skin from the animals. We save them all. would be neat as a backdrop on the wall behind the kudus or maybe as a blanket or something.
From: drycreek
09-Feb-19
Congrats on a great trophy room Forest. The times of your life.........
From: Buffalo1
09-Feb-19
Here is a hodge podge rug idea from skins. A rug could any size or shape you wanted.
From: stagetek
09-Feb-19
Incredible. Must have been an awesome trip. Congrats on your trophies.
From: SB
09-Feb-19
Well I never had the taxidermist show up with a flatbed truck! What a pack job! I couldn't even afford the shipping! Good for you!
From: Bowfinatic
09-Feb-19
Very cool congrats! Liked the stonemason comment ??
From: t-roy
09-Feb-19
Looks great, Forest!
I’m assuming you had all of the taxidermy work done in Africa. From what I’ve read, that can be a bit dicey, with little recourse if the work is poor. Your mounts look great to me, but it’s hard to tell from just pics. What’s your overall impression of the work that you and your son had done?
From: Mnhunter1980
09-Feb-19
Looks like you guys had a blast! Good for you guys! Congrats
From: MPN
09-Feb-19
Fun times, nice trophies! Who did you hunt with?
From: Forest bows
09-Feb-19
We had newstrom taxidermy do the work in Africa. It is very very good for the price and overall it's way above average I would say. It's not as quality of work as somebody like Dennis razza but it is perfectly acceptable for me. We hunted with motsomi
From: stealthycat
09-Feb-19
super nice !!
From: Overland
10-Feb-19
Very nice. It looks like there is a great lifesize bear mount just out of frame as well. Those kudu are truly impressive trophies. When is your next trip to Africa, and is it for DG this time?
From: Forest bows
10-Feb-19
No trip planned as of now
From: Peyton in Fairbanks
10-Feb-19
Looks awesome! Thanks for sharing!
From: Huntcell
10-Feb-19
What a wait for the box to finally show up. With all the horror stories about failed shipments Poor trophy care , happy it all worked out for you , what some great mounts . The wife is more interested in the hide wall hanging, any possibility of posting a photo from straight on. That’s a great unique trophy also.
From: pav
10-Feb-19
Looks fantastic Forest! What a great trophy room!
From: Scar Finga
10-Feb-19
Forest,
Your Home, mounts and the way you have them displayed is beautifully and tastefully done! Congratulations on your success and a wonderful trip with your son! I bet that was a lot of fun unpacking and figuring out where to put them! I love the Africa cutouts with the hide, very cool idea!!!!
Hey Biggie_Bucks… See, that's how you can be a little envious and yet still acknowledge a beautiful home, beautiful mounts, a successful business man that can afford a successful and obviously expensive hunt without being an ass-hat!! Get Some Class!
From: tobywon
10-Feb-19
Congrats, very nice, now where is that Mountain Goat going?
From: Ambush
10-Feb-19
Some very nice animals and well displayed!! Must have been a blast opening the crate and seeing them all again. Great way to relive each animal, unpacking, assembling and hanging!
I went to RSA in 2010 and am just starting to get animals mounted now. Sure wish I'd saved all the back skins to. The few I did keep are really cool for display.
From: Lucas
10-Feb-19
What a great trip, congratulations on all the animals! Who was the outfitter and did you have them mounted in Africa?
From: brooktrout59
10-Feb-19
Memories to last a lifetime or two! Awesome Forest.
From: Paul@thefort
10-Feb-19
WOW, --WOW,WOW, triple WOW. THe only thing I can see is that you are running out of room! Nicely done. my best, Paul
From: Arrowflinger
10-Feb-19
Beautiful trophy room, and very well displayed! thanks for sharing with us.
From: T Mac
10-Feb-19
Hey Forest that is quite the game room! The memories will last a lifetime!
From: kota-man
10-Feb-19
Beautiful Forest...Now you need a bigger room!
From: bigswivle
10-Feb-19
That’s awesome
From: Dennis Razza
10-Feb-19
Had to be an exciting day unpacking and hanging all the mounts. Enjoy the memories made. They look great!
From: BigOk
10-Feb-19
AWESOME!!!
From: BOBSTER
11-Feb-19
Those are very nice, and congrats to you and your son on a awesome trip and beautiful mounts. About the gemsboks, I guess I never really paid attention to individual color of the gemsboks, but both of yours have different patterns of color. That is very cool.
From: altitude sick
11-Feb-19
Those are impressive mounts. Love the kudu pedestal. Probably one male and one female gemsbok. They have different horn length and mass and coat color patterns.
From: Shug
11-Feb-19
Nice... enjoy
From: Fauntleroy
11-Feb-19
Congratulations! Cool way to remember a great experience.
From: APauls
11-Feb-19
Congrats Forest! But have you ever killed anything with a bow? Sheesh, you'd think you have started with a big enough room, but you're plumb running out!!!
From: OFFHNTN
11-Feb-19
AWESOME Forest! Great animals, mounts, and house! CONGRATS!
From: Forest bows
11-Feb-19
I'm not too sure about the gemsbok my wife and I googled some information on it and really couldn't find anything out. They are very very different colored though. If I remember correctly both were males. Everything in that room was shot with a bow.
From: Butternut40
11-Feb-19
Very nice. Congrats an a fine looking trophy room.
Maybe it's the photo but that looks like an exceptional wart hog?
From: BOWNBIRDHNTR
11-Feb-19
Everything looks great Forest. Lot's of terrific memories I'm sure. Can't wait to see where the Mountain Goat goes!
From: APauls
11-Feb-19
Forest I hope you know I was kidding! Pretending to be a jealous guy, in reality I just walk around and say: "oh ya, well check this out my buddy Forest Keith, well he's not really my buddy, but we talk on the internet...well, actually we don't talk, but I look at his pictures...."
From: Brotsky
11-Feb-19
Beautiful trophy room Forest! Looks like an incredible trip with your son. You guys are truly blessed! Congrats!
From: prodefiant34
11-Feb-19
Where in Africa were you and who did you hunt with?
This is impressive and I agree, the pedestals with hide in the background is an awesome idea.
From: dakotaduner
11-Feb-19
Congrats Forest.....Wow. Great memories for you and your son. The Zebra really is stunning
From: StickFlicker
11-Feb-19
Wow, great haul of trophies. Congratulations!
I am a bit surprised though that of all the animals you had mounted, you didn't mount the Golden Wildebeest. A Golden Wildebeest is a Blue Wildebeest that is specially bread for that color trait. It's the exact same animal, but it costs triple or more the price of the blue because of the color. It's unusual that someone would pay triple the price to take the gold version, but not keep the part of the trophy that made it "worth" triple the price. Not criticizing if you can afford it, I just thought it odd.
From: Forest bows
11-Feb-19
The wildebeest was $500....... Was told the golden trait was something from long ago and it showed up in this bull.
From: Forest bows
11-Feb-19
I was thinking that I should of mounted it though.
From: g5smoke21
11-Feb-19
I'm heading over for the first time with my wife in May, hunting with Limcroma. Sable, Impala, wing shooting for me and whatever I can convince her to let me shoot and her first animal (hopefully a big kudu) for her. We are pumped. Congrats on the great animals and beautiful mounts!
From: GhostBird
12-Feb-19
Congratulations Forest... Christmas In February!!! Looks great.
From: Beav
12-Feb-19
Nice trophies! Place looks nice!
From: grossklw
12-Feb-19
Pretty cool room man, looks like you even have a little space left for a few more animals even. My wife always asks how much my taxidermy will be worth when I'm dead, I always respond with not nearly as much as I paid for it! Can't take a checkbook with you to heaven, congrats from top to bottom, cool stuff.
From: TSJ
12-Feb-19
Im surprised that leopard doesn’t have any spots
From: sleddogpa
12-Feb-19
Amazing trophies Forest. Love the trophy room!
