I’m headed to Greenland in March for a muskox hunt, and am debating on what to do with it. I know it’s a ways out, but I’m bored and have been thinking about it.
I’m considering a life size, but the space it would require, and the cost are a factor. I’ve looked at some shoulder mounts, and am not a huge fan, but I have seen some pedestal mounts I’ve liked. I’m strongly considering just doing a euro and tanning the hide to use as a couch throw.
I was hoping those of you that have taken a muskox could post pics of what you did with them to possibly give me some ideas. Thanks in advance.
Mounts if you like Oxen in your basement. If you get a Shoulder pedestal Get it longer so you get more Hair. The hair is the unique part.
—Jim
Anybody have a full tanned stretched out hide like a rug? Bet that long hair would be cool to lay on...
I sold the front 1/2 of the cape to a taxidermist and the back half to the ladies that make stuff with the wool. I got a little less than what Nick got. No regrets - I might kill another one and I have space issues till I build a place. No way I'd get a life-size mount of anything bigger than a wolverine.
Or you could go Ron LaClair and make yourself one helluva warm winter coat as he did with this Buffler ;) …. Takes a big man to fill up a coat like that, but Ron was a Giant (in more ways than one) . Shot triple-digit draw weights most of his life and well on into his sixties, as I recall…
https://tradbow.com/ron-laclair-the-real-deal/#
On the Euro, I had trouble finding anyone locally that would do it. Finally got "Deanna Roth, at Hunter's Union, Salmon Arm, BC" to take it as a whitening project, as originally I simmered it, pressure washed it, got it fully cleaned, but ended up with a gray skull, with some loss of color on the horn bases from my simmering and pressure washing.
Deanna took on my Musk Ox skull at my urging, developing a system to protect the horns (they do not come off the skull like a sheep, goat or antelope) during the extensive months long degreasing process. She now is the go to for Musk Ox Euros around here and does an outstanding job.
I have the hide just as a tanned rug and its pretty impressive , but unfortunately the Quiviut was missing when I got it back.
The outfitter I hunted with in Greenland, also buys/saves the hides and currys the qiviut on a big horizontal wooden drum, that he fastens the hides too.
(Bed’s Full size)
on my muskox hunts I didn’t want to do anything with the trophy parts really when I hunted out of Cambridge Bay in the Arctic a couple times
I called Greg Robertson of Robertson’s taxidermy in Yellowknife and asked him if he wanted the hide
He said absolutely he would take it and in fact, if I wanted, he would do a euro mount of the skull using Beetles in exchange for me giving him the hide
Sounded like a good deal to me and we did that the first year I went. . He met me at a layover in Yellowknife airport on the flight back to Edmonton from Cambridge Bay and I gave him the hide and the skull
About six months later, I got the skull back from him and I had my euro for free
The second time we did that same deal and about six months after I got the skull back, he sent me another email saying that some natural history Museum in Beijing China had commissioned him to do a diorama, including a couple muskox, and he used my hide on one of the ox for that display
Kind of an interesting story to think that somewhere over in China my muskox is in a museum at least the hide part is . I don’t know what skull he put on it.
I can’t believe I’ve been living within an hour of AMNH for all this time and never took my boys down there to see Pope’s and Young’s bow-killed specimens….
Earlier post edited. Thanks for catching the oversight.
