Fjold
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The mount of my Cape Buffalo that I shot in Zimbabwe last summer is done!
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so. Lions and leopards and rhinos excite me but don't frighten me. But that buff is so big and mean and ugly and hard to stop, and vindictive and cruel and surly and ornery. He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money. He looks like he is hunting you...He makes me sick in the stomach, and he makes my hands sweat, and he dries out my throat and my lips."
Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
The taxidermy work was done by Anthony Maxwell of Maxwell Wildlife Artistry in Ceres, California.
That's the face I saw looking through my scope and he had bad intentions for the puny humans staring at him across the clearing.
Here's a cell phone picture to guage the size of the bull, I'm 6'2" tall.
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tinker
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Nice!
Cheers
Tinker
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500Nitro
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That is awesome, absolutely awesome.
One of the nicest I have seen and I agree,
it definitely has that glint in the eye.
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DarylS
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awesome, is right!
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Daryl
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NitroX
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Fjold that is a very nice buffalo mount. It will look very good in your trophy room.
Nice shape on the horns and good bosses too.
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DoubleD
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That taxidermist did a marvelous job.
That look, it says, " you are starting to piss me off."
What a great mount!!!
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DD, Ret.
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VonGruff
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Love the colours on him. He will take you back every time you look at him.
Von Gruff.
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CHAPUISARMES
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That taxidermist did a marvelous job.
That look, it says, " you are starting to piss me off."
What a great mount!!!
+1
Your going to have to put him in the back room out of sight otherwise you will never get any work done. 
Just Joking Mate, a lovely trophy and one to be proud of, Great Taxidermy, Well Done,
Cheers from Australia,
Jeff Gray
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ozhunter
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Very nice work.
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mikeh416Rigby
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What a wonderful trophy, and a beautiful mount! You have every right to be proud of it. Congratulations.
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Ripp
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The mount of my Cape Buffalo that I shot in Zimbabwe last summer is done!
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so. Lions and leopards and rhinos excite me but don't frighten me. But that buff is so big and mean and ugly and hard to stop, and vindictive and cruel and surly and ornery. He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money. He looks like he is hunting you...He makes me sick in the stomach, and he makes my hands sweat, and he dries out my throat and my lips."
Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
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Hadn't realized Robert Ruark described by x-wife... 
Awesome looking mount...
Ripp
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Mike_Bailey
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Ripp, LOL best
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Ben
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One of the most realistic-looking mounts I've seen (not that I've seen many).
By the way, how do you get your zebra hide hanging so nicely?
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4seventy
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That is indeed a VERY impressive mount!
That bull looks like it is still alive!
Well done and thanks for showing. 
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Nice... congratulations on a great trophy credit to Anthony Maxwell for taxidermy work.
Any details of hunt/ calibre rifle would be good. Thanks Mick
If ruak had met my mother in law he would have added as shifty and sly as a sheet eating heyena. At least you know the buffs intentions.
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Fjold
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Thanks all, Anthony does fantastic work I couldn't be any happier with the quality of the mount.
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One of the most realistic-looking mounts I've seen (not that I've seen many).
By the way, how do you get your zebra hide hanging so nicely?
I sewed rings on the backer to hang it with picture hooks and then used black upholstery tacks around the black border to flatten it out.
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Nice... congratulations on a great trophy credit to Anthony Maxwell for taxidermy work.
Any details of hunt/ calibre rifle would be good. Thanks Mick
If ruak had met my mother in law he would have added as shifty and sly as a sheet eating heyena. At least you know the buffs intentions.
That was taken with my left handed model 70 in 375 H&H using the 300 grain TSX and banded solids.
I posted the full hunt report last June here:
http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat....true#Post184776
Edited by Fjold (17/03/12 12:00 PM)
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SafariHunt
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One of the best buffalo mounts I have ever seen who says size matters when the mount is done so well its an old boy and he has the look doesnt matter if he's not wide.
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Cazadero
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Nice bull. I like the gray in his face. Where in Zim and with whom did you hunt?
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Cazadero
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Nevermind the last post, i just saw the link to the hunt report - I'll go read it now.
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messmate
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FATBOY404
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That would be the nicest mount I have seen. Well done.
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messmate
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A handsome old buff...that mount is a work of art! Congratulations.
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rigbymauser
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Nice job.Nice set-up on the wall!.
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guns68
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Very Very nice!!
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Leroy
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ovny
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Excellent buffalo.
Oscar.
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