Wanna learn things like this? You can at Bill Yox whitetail workshops

very nice.
and clean.

 

Y'alls deer must be all the same damn color up there Yox! ;D

 

Bill can i ask a question?

 

That's just across the "line" isn't it? :

 

Thats fine and you can delete this if you need to because it's off topic, but i need to ask. why is there no crease in the back leg? here are some pics to help
http://www.billingsgazette.net/content/articles/2007/11/08/features/outdoors/50-bucks_xol_3.jpg
http://image28.webshots.com/29/0/80/64/260008064fpLCEf_ph.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/78/170100976_8ea237cfd5.jpg?v=0

 

I thinking the same thing Ryan... ???

 

im ready for Bill to give me the exact reason! i know there is one im just not sure what it is.
maybe because that deer weighed 300+ ??

 

Bill may come on and give you a different answer, but everything is relative. Its weight distribution. Notice how Bill's deer' head is positioned verses your reference pics. You will also notice that on Bill's deer the butt is more over the leggs and in your pics the leg is kicked out more. If you were to look inside the deer' skeletal you would find that the hip joint is in tight while in your pics the hip joint is rotated out. Thats just what I see, but I'm sure Bill will answer you much better that I did. So we'll wait and see what he has to say about it. LOL

 

Ooooppps!

 

i was just curious. Thanks!

 

Oh gosh that's one fat deer. LOL
I did look up a few pics, and they were similar to this mount. Maybe it's the way the leg is extended, or not extended.

 

LMAO Obviously you guys have never mounted the big guys from the cold country. Hair on a deer that size is going to be 3 inches long to begin with. Few people realize that most animal movements take place INSIDE the skin rather than outside it. We taxidermists created that monster, but in real life, even your dog's back leg will fold forward like that without having that relief tuck crease. (DON'T CHEAT AND SNEAK A LOOK NOW!) Catch a badger sometime if you're REALLY brazen and pick it up by it's back skin. The animal can and will turn inside his skin and ruin your day completely. So even though Bill's too nice to say things like this, MAKE SURE you're right before you ASSume anything. In this case, with a winter killed Saskatchewan buck, you're not going to see crease or veins or ribs are ANYTHING other than one big fluffball of fur. That is - except in a taxidermists shop who doesn't know about Canadian deer.

 

i have never mounted one george, thats why i asked...not ASSumed. i asked why it was like that.