Not a lot of trophy animals to show but I do have a room and some bows:








There is one shoulder mount coming and it should be here next fall.

I was running out of room in the house so Katia suggested we build on last year...well a couple of good buddies (Bret "Jethro" Cagle and Leonard Settlemyer) myself and a bunch of sweat equity allowed me to end up with a Cadillac trophy room on a Ford budget.  All I hired out was the concrete work and a crew of Amish to put the roof on, we did the rest ourselves from stacking the logs, setting the trusses, framing what needed framed, wiring and finishing.  Took a summer of weekends, but we are pleased with it.  The trophy room is 22X20 with a 22X6 tack room for my wifes horse stuff on the end and a 22X6 loft with a walkout porch for her home office.  Ended up with a nice closet for hunting clothes etc as well....here's a few pics (note that I built it big enough to add a few more animals as the opportunity arises!)  Ryan

Entryway from original house:

 

Southwest corner:



This is going to need rearranging later as the full mount muskox from this fall will go here.

West wall with exterior double doors to get big animals in:

 

This is the north wall (with entry from original house):



This guy is waiting in the tack room for a buddy to show up to help me hang him on the north wall near the buffalo.



East wall:



Back to the south wall, with stairs to wife's office:

View of the room from the stairs.  Interesting story on the antler lights...Dad made them for me with sheds from the farm in Iowa.  The lamps are mirror images of each other...all right sheds on one, all left on the other...from the same deer.



Here's my little closet.  The arrows are kill arrows, I have most of my kill arrows with date/animal written on them, nice memories.



Lots of work, but we couldn't be more pleased with the results (not bad for a bunch of weekend warriors!)

Ryan

That's not a 'trophy room' that's a 'trophy house'! Wow!!

These are very nice "Trophy Rooms"

Nice room addition, Ryan!   I love your handrails  on the stairs...neat idea.   You got to get that moose up...I just re-read the story in my PBS newsletter about the hunt, a goodun'.

Bjorn....love all those bows!

Jason, I too love the "grandpa's bow" display!  

I had to check and see if I still had pics of my  room  in  my  photobucket....I do!  They are a  couple years old,  though, and I've  added a few more "memories", but  you get the jist!   All  longbow and selfbow trophies only!













I also had to add-on this room to my house, so my wife lets me decorate this one area.

Ryan I like the look of the new addition. Looks good man. Are you still planning on returning for another whitetail hunt?

Great thread, great photos.
Instead of watching the news in the morning, I should just look at these pictures, my mood would be better.

Looks great now, Ryan.  I may have to come over during C'dale and see the finished product.
Mark, what the heck is that white oval thing on the wall behind your chair?       :D

Outstanding photos. Very inspiring!

We have 14,000+ Trad Gangers. Let's keep this thread alive...

Maddog

I'll be pulling in to Carol's on Xmas day, PM, hunting until the following sunday.  JD told me about that stand you guys put up by the pole barn.  I told him to put an angry turtle sign on it to keep his brothers away....temptation got the best of him tho....something about busting a couple does there already.  That's ok, Rob has a stand with my name on it (and I won't rub it in too bad if I kill a buck bigger than his!)

Less work, more weekends

later dude

R

Sounds like a good time.

Here is mine. Can you tell I am a Whitetail nut?

WOW!!!

Awesome pics fellows. Lots of ideas for my next house.

Mark

Ryan looks like that arrow-kill collection has a bunch of Snuffers on 'em! Imagine that!!! Would you say the majority if not all those critters you got were all snuffed out.Nice collection of memories you got there.Take care, Paul

Rick, having all those trophies and arrows looks really good. And the Maple Sight Windows don't hurt either! LOL!
I'm still working on that!

I clearly do not hunt enough....or maybe I don't shoot enough stuff!

Ryan, the room addition looks fantastic!