Grandslam Mounts

[IORIO52]

For anyone out there fortunate enough to accomplish a grandslam, do you have a mount of each bird? I would love to see some ideas of how you displayed all of the birds. I have an eastern mounted full strut and a rio at the taxidermist right now. I would love to have all 4 eventually. Should I full strut all of them to display the differences in tail fan colors or switch the poses up? Any pics and opinions/ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

[BigEz]

I would say the mount poses should depend more on the individual birds strengths and your personal tastes.  I have a Merriam's done in full strut because he has pure white tall feathers and 5 beards so that pose will show that well.  I have and Osceola gobbling on the limb with his wings half down to high light the dark bands on his wings and the long spurs.  Full strut will look great with all of them depending on the condition the birds are in when you shot them, but an eastern and an Osceola will look very similar in full strut except for the wing banding.  Also full strut will hide the spurs for the most part if the bird has good hooks, so for me I try to go with the strengths of the bird regardless if it's a Rio or eastern and so on. I'm thinking for my Rio I will look at getting the trophy mount I think it's called, where there hanging from there feet from a fence post ( man i love the look of that pose).

Happy Hunting
Erik

[vicksburg]

Here's what I did. Already had a couple of full body mount easterns and didn't have room, or the funds for 4 more.


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[redarrow]

That is sweet.

[GSLAM95]

Eastern


Merriams - Black Hills


Osceola


Rio



Goulds for the Royal Slam



Ocellated for the World Slam

[West Augusta]

Congrats John and a beautiful display.

[Nick_The_Tinkerer]

 

[Sand Man]

WOW!  Someday.........someday!   

[TauntoHawk]

When I saw this thread i thought, wonder when GSLAM is going to show up and make us all jealous of his trophy room.


back to day dreaming at the office I go.....

[Wingbone]

Vicksburg, that's an awesome fan display for the slam. That's what I was looking to do with mine but wasn't sure how to put it all together. How did you do the photos in the middle?

[Tail Feathers]

Very nice jobs from both who posted pics!

I love the tailfans with the pics because it takes up so much less space.
I have my four mounted talfans on one wall, but separate mounts.

[vicksburg]

Vicksburg, that's an awesome fan display for the slam. That's what I was looking to do with mine but wasn't sure how to put it all together. How did you do the photos in the middle?

I just took some kill shots from each bird, and sent them to my buddy who makes those collages in photoshop.  He added the text i wanted then mailed it to me on a dvd.  I took it to a photo shop and had it printed on high quality paper, and built the frame around it! LOL Ended up looking pretty sharp.

[870FaceLift]

 

That Ocellated mount box is one of the coolest things I have ever seen!  Definitely on my bucket list

[shootemintheface]

Those Ocellated are nice

[tomstopper]

Very beautiful mounts everyone. Congrats.