several cow skulls decorating the turf around the cabin. In addition to the sun room buffalo skull, I have two


The MGM Switchview lever installed on the power ring of a Leupold 1.5-5x20mm MR/T M2 with illuminated reticle.


(and other bones) as items of home or yard décor. I have a hunting buddy who has a pair of boar skulls,


from two of our hog hunts, that he had made into bookends. Each is a reminder of an adventure past and, yes, his wife got used to them ... after awhile. My son, the archer in the family, has whitetail racks all over his place and they are all just simple skull cap mounts. On the outside wall of the gun room here in the mountains are two elk racks similarly mounted. We have a longhorn skull in a tree on the way up to my wife’s cabin, a big buffalo skull in the sun room, and


favorite skull displays. On a prairie dog hunt several years ago I ended walking around a big town that seemed to have an inordinate number of prairie dog skulls lying around. All sun bleached and clean, I picked up a few. And then, over several days, I ended up with most of a gallon Zip-Loc bag full of the little trophies. What to do with them didn’t occur to me until much later when I was in a Salvation Army thrift store. I was looking for another cooking pot for my camper but what caught my eye was a round clear glass fi shbowl that was about 10 inches in diameter. Taking the bowl home, I carefully stacked my prairie dog skulls in it and topped it off with a cleaned badger skull. This little display has sat atop the entertainment center in the gun room ever since and is one of my favorite reminders of pleasant times afi eld. Next to the bowl of skulls is a beaver skull resting on a very old beaver trap of unknown history. The chain on the trap was replaced by someone before I got it. The beaver skull is another story. Not skulls, nor even bones, rattles from rattlesnakes


have become trophies for many folks. I’ve taken the rattles from the biggest of those I’ve had the ill fortune to run into and affi xed loops of deer skin to them so they can be sus- pended around the gunroom on antlers and such. When the hard bone is removed from the rattle where it attaches to the snake, a hollow is exposed. A dollop of rubber cement placed in this hollow area will hold the strip of deer skin


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