Alberta Grizzly (Mount)

[Double Shovel]

Last year I got a call from a guy who told me he had a grizz he wanted to get mounted. He told me he shot it in 1995 and has had it in the freezer since (17+ yrs). I was a little skeptical about it but I told him it had to come with all the paperwork and be legit. He told me he had it wet tanned and that he would take it out of the freezer every so often and mist it down then put it back in. Well the day came that the bear showed up and with it came the hunting license, tag and registration. I left the bear out to thaw because I wanted to measure it and check the condition out. The next day I was able to examine it and it was like it was just tanned. Fish and Wildlife checked it all out and everything was good.
This bear has a great hide and the client shot it when there was still snow on the ground in the spring. He told me he left it for that long because he didn't have room in his house for a mount and has since reached a point in his life that he now has a retirement home where there is room. This was a fun mount to do and the customer picked everything from the style of wood, pose, snow and even the type of roots he wanted, I am glad it all came together
Thx

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[Scott N]

Wow, that is a nice mount.

[Alberta Bigbore]

Fantastic!! Wow

[twytter]

Very nice mount,hope one day i get my hands on one of them grizz :)

[outdoors forever]

THAT is nice. Good job!

Bet that cost a bundle................:sign0068:

[brohymn2]

awesome

[South west trappin RG]

Couldn't get any better nice work

[NBFK]

Awesome work! Am I the only one who sees silver willows photos upside down all the time?

[ReayMan]

Beauty!! Nice work and great bear!

[blueshark]

Great mount!

[Andythehillbilly]

Wow! Beautiful!

[wags]

It seems redundant in this thread, but wow! Amazing animal, amazing work. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

[Iceman4]

Awesome job!

[north american hunter]

Amazing job!

[bonedogg]

Unreal work, thanks for sharing

[Ryry4]

That is a gorgeous mount!

[Barnes19]

Beautiful bear, love the base.

[Grizzly Adams]

Nothing to pick on here. :lol: Just looking at him, you can almost feel the icy mountain wind blowing.

Grizz

[Mike_W]

WOW!!!! Great bear love the blonde head. Amazing mount!!!!

[Booner Sniper]

Incredibly good job, great bear, great mount!

[cricketlakehunter]

Looks amazing!

[waterninja]

17 yrs! neat story and fantastic mount. nice to see a person in one of the pics. to give it scale. i assume it's you double shovel, as the person in pic. is a long way from retirement.

[sevenmil]

Nice bear and nice mount!

[bush monkey]

That is awesome man!!! It's posts like this that make it hard to wait on whats to come for me. I'm getting pumped to see that cat come back to life (so to speak)lol

[Artistic Taxidermy]

very nice

[PAXMAC77]

Really nice work

[The Bit Runner.]

That's a beautiful mount and bear. I bet the client is super happy.

[Bearbreath]

Great work! The pose looks killer!

[thumper]

Might be the last, sport-hunted grizzly ever mounted in Alberta!
Very nice work. Says 'power under the hood', rather than 'power unleashed' to me.

[elkhunter1234]

WOW... you nailed that mount Curtis.

[Huntnut]

That's the nicest bear mount I've seen on here. All the others don't have the head/face right but you nailed it.

[sakogreywolf]

:happy0034: Incredible work as usual!

[Mulehahn]

That is an amazing mount, one of the best I have ever seen regardless of species. The fact that is it is a real nice bear puts it over the top

[fishtank]

WOW!! very nice mount .

[Baskey1414]

Looks even better in person Curtis!

[chain2]

very nice work! the slack jaw just naturally suits a griz ...one day may all be so fortunate to the hunt the great grizzled critter in AB again...thx for postin up chain

["No Choke"Lord Walsingham]

Phenomenal.

That is a very interesting story. A story which entails inclusion of what is probably the longest passage of time between an animal being taken and subsequently developed into a full mount with which I am familiar. It's good to know... Yet better to see. This is indeed a very fine and beautiful mount.

Bravo!

[Don K]

Damn. Makes me want a grizzly. That is beautiful!

[SugarCreek]

Looks great Curtis,...got to see that....and many others in person last weekend. That is a big bear for Alberta and I loved the coloration in the hair...he's a beautie. Great job on the work and that base work compliments very well...congrats on a fantastic mount bud!!!

[rasbok]

Amazing job!

[LocalHunter]

Beautiful, awesome job

[nube]

Great mount

[BigLou]

Great work!