Gary Reeder
I talked to Jim Frost this morning. He is expecting his
Friday, July 10, 2020, 12:19

mounts from Africa any day and was wondering the best way to hang heavy mounts. I have run into that problem thru the years with so many large mounts and no desire to have one tear thru a wall and destroy a section of the wall and the mount too. Several years back I came up with a hanger that works for extremely heavy mounts and medium heavy mounts. The hanger is based on a square sheet of 1/4" steel with a steel hook welded to it and 8 or 10 holes drilled in it. The steel sheet backing is usually 6" wide by 7" high and as many holes as you feel you need. The hook is a steel hook available at any good hardware store.

The first few years I used them I left them matte black but on a white wall I painted them white. A lot of it also depends upon where the taxidermist puts the hole in the back of the mount. If it is high as they usually are the hanger will show. If they put it half way down it doesn't show. Several of my earlier mounts have the hanger at the top of the mount backing and it shows.



This doesn't bother me as most are in my office, my reloading room or the shop. But for some it might bother the lady of the house. On mounts where the hanger hole is farther down the hanger just barely shows at the top of the mount. On a few of these you can barely see it sticking up.





So get the hooks made and you can put the hook at the top of the sheet but it tends to pull down more for some reason if the hook is at the top. Could be just me. Either way you go, it works.