Whitetail Shoulder Mounts
mounted by Reimond Grignon
Whitetail deer hunting is a favorite pastime of Maine residents. The deer are very plentiful to the point of being there being too many deer. For a number of years the Maine Fish and Wildlife department protected the does by using a permit system. This has worked very well and now the Fish and Wildlife department would actually like to see more does taken. There are places in Maine where there are so many deer that the state has had to hire "sharpshooters" to come in a eliminate as many deer as possible. It makes you wonder where all the hunters are.
My whitetail deer have won numerous awards for their wonderful detail and life like appearance. The deer look absolutely natural. There is no wax or paint showing. I use only the very best materials available, and the very best tanning. Combine this with years of experience and you have the best whitetail mounts ever! A master of anatomy, many of my game head mounts are mounted on forms sculpted by me.
Maine whitetails get huge. The two hundred plus pound buck is very common and whitetails have been shot that weighted over 400 pounds. Maine whitetails also grow very large antlers. The very large eight pointer is very common, the very large ten pointer is common. To shot a deer with over ten points would be a lot more difficult, but that too happens a lot in central Maine.
The central part of the state seems to grow the biggest deer racks. probably because of the abundance of food available. Big deer can be found virtually everywhere, but of course you have to hunt for the big ones. This usually means just being patient enough to let the small ones go by....
There are so many deer in Maine at the present that in order to get a big one it really seems you have to let the smaller ones go by. The first few days of the hunting season, lots and lots of smaller deer are taken. Most of the big deer in Maine are shot the last two weeks of the season, after all the eager, hurried hunters are out of the woods.
The above is a very large deer rack. Look at those eyes and noses on the deer above. I try very hard to make my mounts look completely alive!
Over the years I have mounted lots of really, really big whitetail deer heads. I would love to do yours!
All of my customers hides are custom tanned by the worlds best tannery in California. They come back nice and soft. These mounts and rugs tanned this way will last several life times easy! It is not cheap to have them tanned this way, and the cost of shipping is no longer cheap. In fact it is quite expensive. But you really do pay for what you get in this world.
Many other taxidermists have gone back to "In House Home Tanning". I refuse to do this because the hides tan up brittle, these hides will go to pieces on you in just a few years making them completely worthless.
Due to so much of this taking place now. I no longer do ANY repair work on any piece of taxidermy work that was NOT done by ME!
I will certainly repair any tanned taxidermy work that was done by me because I have the best tanning done by the worlds best tannery even though it does cost more.
