The picture was taken at the taxidermist's shop where I am having a half-mount done on my bear. The taxidermist is in the picture getting ready to hook the cable to the leg in order to winch the bear up in the air for skinning.
I do have three bucks on the wall and a fourth on the way that is at the taxidermist right now from this past gun season.
Two bow kill bucks and two gun kill bucks....and with this bear, the room is full! In fact with the bear half mount, sticking three feet or tad more into the room it will be tricky getting a spot where she can come out that far into the room without being in the way!?
I only wish I could have gotten a better picture of the bear like most people have, where its on the ground and with bow etc.
But at 9:30pm and having to load the bear into the truck with a tractor with front end loader, we didnt feel like getting it back out for a picture and then load it again. This was early September and warm, so we wanted to get it to the taxidermist asap and skinned so that the meat would be ok.
I had heard that the quicker that hide gets off a bear, the better the meat will be. And by the way the meat is great!
In fact, if I didnt tell anyone I doubt they would think anything of it that they were eating bear and not beef!