First pedestal (double)

Two of my missouri Whitetails I harvested last year. I'm just a hobbyist at taxidermy and thought I would give a pedestal a shot. I had a lot of fun from building the pedestal to doin my finish work. Learned a lot in the process. Any advice would be great but I'm not expecting critiques as I can see what I still need to work on. Sorry about the pics I've been having a heck of a time down sizing them so they still look ok. Thanks for looking

 

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Haha thanks everyone I killed another real nice one last year also. Got the missouri triple crown all 3 went over 150 inches

 

EHD was pretty spotty in my area but I hunt around flowing water which I think helps. I had a opportunity at a 200 class buck also last year at 10 yards but never had a broadside shot. All three I killed from the ground and the big non typ was spot and stalk. It was a pretty amazing year.

 

Thanks everyone. In missouri you are allowed one archery buck before rifle season, one buck during rifle, and one archery buck after rifle late season so 3 bucks total. It is a challenge i normally harvest two nice bucks a year but very rarely three.

 

Thanks Meagan. My last years bucks did come off private ground that I leased but for five plus years before that I have harvested at least one whitetail a year over 140 inches on public ground. They are there just takes a lot of preparation and the willingness to go the extra mile. I have also learned over the past several years a lot of big Whitetails are being walked passed. Everyone thinks the further you go into the woods the better but this is not always the case seems to me that a lot of mature deer now hang out near roads. Hope I helped stick with it and thanks.