can you tell me some suppliers that have more of a texas looking deer form
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That was meant as a rhetorical question, mike. Just what do "Texas" whitetail have or don't have that Florida, Georgia, Virginia or Pennsylvania deer don't? Get every catalog from every supplier you can and look at THEIR forms. You pick out what you think "Texas" deer look like and order from them. There are easily over a dozen studios who market their deer mannikins. You're bound to find one in that 12 that have one like you'd like.
most forms i see the bigger necks dont start untill 6 3/4" to 7 inch snouts
Texas deer are crossed with so many other subspecies there is not "Texas Deer"
Same answers. With all the change out heads on the market and the simple method of form altering, sounds like the only problem you have is understanding what taxidermists are expected to do to make quality mounts from "irregular" deer.
Hey Mike take a look at the Coombs forms. Yes there are lots of suppliers out there but Coombs are still my favorites. They just seem to be slightly more slender through the muzzle on the average. Just an impresion - never threw the calipers to them.
I don't know about Texas having all of these "croosbred" deer though.
You can see distinctive differences in the coastal, hill country and South Tex deer. Parks and Wildlife once upon a time (and maybe still) released deer around the state but from what I gather it was still Texas deer to other texas areas.
The game ranch type deer have mixed northern bloodlines and whatever else they can throw in to but some sticks and bones on the deer heads but they are more the exception - you don't see those as much. Granted if you have the right clients and ranch contacts you can see a big influx of them but the average Joe taxidermist across the state will not see much of them.
Consider that we harvest up to around 400,000.00 deer a year.....that's deer we make dead. The total millions of our living breeding population would take a massive injection of outside genetics to change the herd makeup.
Where was I? Oh yeah.....I like the Coombs forms Mike.
Mike,
I know exactly what you are talking about. It's almost as if the whitetail here have crossed with the coues deer from Mexico. Their faces are shorter and slightly narrower while maintaining the thick neck. Also, the briskets and shoulders are not as wide as are most of the forms on the market. To George and John, my friends there is a "Texas Deer" dilema in the supply market. Whether it is a species in itself or a 'cross', the problem still exists. Mike, I have found that Joe Coombs forms work well when I alter 'shorten' the face. In many instances, I have even had to mount 'Texas' whitetails on Coues deer forms which I also ordered from Joe Coombs. Hope this helps.
HH