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NitroX
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Would you sell your trophies?
#18214 - 20/08/04 02:40 AM

I know there are two auctions of significant trophy collections coming up in Australia soon.

It makes me think "Would or could I ever sell my trophies?"

Currently I think not. They are personal to me. Helps generate memories of good times. Make one's abode feel like a home.

What about you. Could you one day ever sell your trophies and what would be the circumstances? Or have you sold your trophies on occasion and why?

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: NitroX]
#18219 - 20/08/04 04:11 AM

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER! When I built my new trophy room and decided to only have Africana in it, all of my North American mounts were given to family members, clients, or donated to a local museum.

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#18245 - 20/08/04 02:29 PM

How much?

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Ingwe
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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: mickey]
#18246 - 20/08/04 03:42 PM

Trust me - there are things that can happen to a person that will cause that person to no longer give a D%$# about things as superficial as his trophies..

Ingwe

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: NitroX]
#18249 - 20/08/04 04:01 PM

Absolutely I would sell my trophies. I hunt for the joy of hunting, not for putting something on the wall. I couldn't care less about having a mounted head in the house (I have none).

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: mickey]
#18261 - 21/08/04 12:51 AM

Nada, zero, zip, nothing. Flat out donation. I'm such a nice guy.

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470Nitro
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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: NitroX]
#18366 - 23/08/04 09:00 PM

I prefer to donate them or give them as a present to a friend or family. I'll never sell any of them, they're a very important part of my life.

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: NitroX]
#18636 - 30/08/04 04:20 AM

I could never part with them. If someone offered me a lot of money for one, maybe, but I'd have replicas of the antlers/tusks/horns be made and I'd keep the original cape. They mean so much to me and I wont shoot something if I can't put it on the wall. My goal is to have one of those museum size trophy rooms where I could sit for hours reliving each hunt.

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: Sevens]
#18693 - 31/08/04 07:40 AM

I would sell them if the price was right..I like the photographs better anyway....and I will always have the memories...

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: atkinson6]
#18701 - 31/08/04 10:54 AM

Ray, photos fade eventually, and with your ageing eyes you'd have to have all 14 x 20s made up.

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#20133 - 29/10/04 04:34 AM

Truthfully I had never considered selling them. But the conversation had come up recently about donating, which I thought was a good plan.

Memories & pictures are more important to me than the actual heads, I think.

Mike

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: Ingwe]
#20368 - 02/11/04 10:30 AM

In reply to:

Trust me - there are things that can happen to a person that will cause that person to no longer give a D%$# about things as superficial as his trophies..

Ingwe

Ingwe is absolutely right on this one! I would sell my trophies long before I would sell my double rifles, if the same money was involved! haveing said that, about two years ago, I had to sell 8 of my prized doubles, to raise a quick $100K! Believe me, when I tell you, my heart went with them, but I needed the money for a deposit for my Daughter to get on a transplant list, as her insurance was depleted! Now she is on SSI,and Medicaid,because she can no longer work, and she is only 48 yrs old, so my deposit wouldn't be needed today, and the rifles are gone forever, and So will my daughter be, if she doesn't get a transplant soon!

Sorry to put a bummer on your string!

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: DUGABOY1]
#20369 - 02/11/04 01:04 PM

Mac

I am sorry to hear about your Daughter. I wish her and you and your family well. Good Luck.

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Ingwe
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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: mickey]
#20441 - 04/11/04 11:52 AM

Wow, Mac. I am terribly sorry to hear about this. My prayers will go out for your daughter and your family.

Ingwe

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NitroX
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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: DUGABOY1]
#20446 - 04/11/04 01:27 PM

Mac

I too am sorry to hear about this. I hope and pray your daughter finds her transplant soon.

Of course there are more important things in life. In the end we can take anything with us.

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: NitroX]
#20465 - 05/11/04 12:41 AM

Mac,

Very sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope and pray she gets her transplant soon. Keep your chin up.

as to selling my trophies I am with Ray. I like the photos almost as well. I could be talked into selling them if the need came up.

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: Taos]
#21427 - 29/11/04 11:56 AM

I'm always running out of room for my trophy's. So it's out with the old and in with the new. A constant upgrade if you will. I've never had an attachment for things of this nature. I've also never thought about selling them. But in a simple answer yes I could.

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: NitroX]
#21431 - 29/11/04 12:44 PM

For me the most important issue is the hunt itself not the trophy.
As Ray said, you have the photos anyway.
Yes, I actually sold my mounted heads and other trophies in 2000 for several reasons, but mainly to help fund my double rifle addiction.

Rumours that they were sold due to my rum addiction are just not true!

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Re: Would you sell your trophies? [Re: NitroX]
#21472 - 30/11/04 04:34 AM

I would sell them on one condition,that someone pays me enough money to go to Africa and hunt the same animals but only bigger ones this time.Fat chance!I would never sell them unless ofcourse i was really really desperate for cash.

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