Custom Taxidermy Lost in 2 Alarm Fire

Here is a link to really sad story.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5441155

This story hits a little close to home. A guy I work with drew a tag for the monroe archery in 2008. He was hunting in the camp next to mossback and crew as they were out after the spider bull. My friend shot an awesome 7x7 bull. He said that Doyle Moss came running into his camp site as he pulled up with his bull. Apparently Doyle was worried that my friend had got to spidy first. Doyle green scored my buddies bull at 376. Pretty good number with a bow. Definitely a P&Y bull. My friend had never met Doyle but said he was real personable. You sure hear a lot of crap about him. I've never met him so my verdict is still out there. Anyway back to the story. Custom Taxidermy was doing the mount for my friend. The cape tanning was completed last week and my friend had just taken the antlers in last week for final mounting. What a bum deal. There is little chance that there will be anything salvagable due to the severity of the fire. [-o< Apparently the roof caved in. To make matters worse, the P&Y scorer had cancelled two different appointments to final score the bull. #-o My friend will not get to have the mount or the spot in the books. He'll have to settle for the hunting memories. Memories are great, but this sure is a bum deal. Incidently he said there were five trophy mounts in the drying stage when he took his antlers in. I sure hope that none of those mounts belong to any of you, but they did belong to some discouraged hunters.
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P.S. No pun intended by posting this in campfire talk.
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AGCHAWK
DANG! That REALLY sucks! Hope no one on this site also became a victim of this unfortunate incident.
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killerbee
that really suck! memories are the most important part of a hunt but looking at that mount would sure make the memories last longer! that sucks for everyone who lost a mount, bummer to hear :>/
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MuleyMadness
Dang that does stink, sorry about your friends loss as well. Bummer.

Lets see some pics of your friends bull! :thumb
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Hiker
Sad deal! :>/
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9er
bad deal!!!

i heard thru the grapevine tonight they were cooking up some meth and added a bit to much of one ingredient ](*,) :>/

i hope all the hunters have good pics to remember there trophies

9er
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TheGreatwhitehunter
Wow thats horrible news.... I have most of my mounts insured through SCI so if something like did happen even if they were in the process of being finished at the taxidermist I would be covered.

http://www.huntandtravel.com/trophyins.htm

http://www.huntandtravel.com/downloads/trophyapp/sci_trophyapp.pdf
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NotEnufTags
"MuleyMadness" wrote:Dang that does stink, sorry about your friends loss as well. Bummer.

Lets see some pics of your friends bull! :thumb
Sorry, it took a while to get a digital copy of the photos. You asked so you shall receive.



Here's Bill, packing out the head and antlers.



I was talking to Bill about the fire again. He said that there was a full size bear mount on an awesome floor pedestal that a member of SCI lost in ht e fire. There was also a big horn sheep that had just been completed. The guy who took the ram had paid $40,000 for the tag in an auction. No trophy mount and out 40K would suck.

I wouldn't mind too bad though, because that would mean I have 40k to spend on hunting lol
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killerbee
killer bull! what a bummer, i'd like to hear more on this mount insurance??
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"killerbee" wrote:killer bull! what a bummer, i'd like to hear more on this mount insurance??
Me too! I don't understand how insurance could help in this case. My friend had not paid anything for the mount yet, and the cape and antlers are gone. I don't understand what an insurance policy could do for him. I.e. no money to be reimbursed, and an unreplaceable set of antlers.
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TheGreatwhitehunter
Here are the Links to SCI Trophy Insurance

www.huntandtravel.com/trophyins.htm

http://www.huntandtravel.com/downloads/trophyapp/sci_trophyapp.pdf
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