# What kind of heads would you like on your wall? - Trophy Huntig **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 26, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054 "2008-01-26T03:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/1 "2008-01-26T03:41:34Z")
I have always wanted to take up trophy hunting to get some cool animal heads for my wall. I am not really sure which animals are protected so that is something I will have to research before I take up trophy hunting. My top five is: African Buffalo (one of the big five) A wild boar Lion (another of the big five) Bear (don’t really care what kind, but I want a big one, but I make it a rug instead of mounting the head ) Dingo I would really like a Gorilla but I almost certain that is illegal, but if not it would be my number one. So what would your top five be? Are there any trophy hunters here? What heads do you have? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/2 "2008-01-26T03:44:56Z")
George W. Bush. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/3 "2008-01-26T03:45:39Z")
Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bred Jersey cow! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/4 "2008-01-26T03:49:59Z")
The elusive Sidehill Dodger. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/5 "2008-01-26T03:56:30Z")
A couple years ago a bee was flying above my soda can, so I swatted at it in midair. It hit the opening of the can. It’s torso went in, it’s head laid to rest on the top of the can. I shellacked it to a centimeter by centimeter piece of wood, and it’s mounted at the base of the stairs. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/6 "2008-01-26T04:33:05Z")
The head of the guy who invented those singing fish. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/7 "2008-01-26T04:39:47Z")
A trophy hunter. ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/8 "2008-01-26T04:42:58Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] A trophy hunter. [/QUOTE] _And_ G. W. Bush. Is the OP having us on? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/9 "2008-01-26T04:47:45Z")
Excellent poster/topic convergence there with **jackelope**. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/10 "2008-01-26T04:56:10Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bred Jersey cow! [/QUOTE] Guernsey cow! As if one of those inferior Jerseys or Anguses or Herefords would end up there. And I want a gnu. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/11 "2008-01-26T05:03:26Z")
[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror] Excellent poster/topic convergence there with **jackelope**. [/QUOTE] Ha! That didn’t even occur to me. Good one. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/12 "2008-01-26T05:04:30Z")
I can’t think of a single aminal that I want mounted on my wall. The list of critters I want to hunt and eat (or, in the case of the llama, just eat) is longer. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/13 "2008-01-26T05:19:40Z")
Speaking of jackalopes: I worked for a company that sold a system to the Colorado Dept. of Wildlife (the people who issue hunting permits). On my first trip to the bathroom, I turned the corner and found this huge room covered with trophy heads of every animal huntable in the state. It was kind of like being in a decapitation Natural History section (I am not into hunting, in case you didn’t guess). Anyway, I thought it would be hilarious to sneak in a jackalope trophy. I wondered how long it would take for someone to notice. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/14 "2008-01-26T05:28:07Z")
Satan’s head. But I’d poke the eyes out. Don’t want him watching me. A unicorn, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/15 "2008-01-26T06:30:42Z")
I would like a head of lettuce, a head of cabbage, a head of steam (in a tasteful glass globe), and the foam from the top of a beer (neatly preserved in a stein, perhaps). Then I would revel in the puzzled expressions of any who chanced to look upon my trophies. 😛 [QUOTE=Q.E.D.] George W. Bush. [/QUOTE] Would you actually want to look at that on a regular basis, though? Dumped in the attic/basement/garage with all the other mathoms, sure, but on the wall? ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/16 "2008-01-26T07:16:24Z")
Tyrannosaurus Triceratops Styracosaurus Giganotosaurus Argentinosaurus I anticipate a large trophy room, adjacent to the conservatory with ready access to the smoking lounge and chronovelocipede chamber. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/17 "2008-01-26T08:48:40Z")
[QUOTE=Charger] A unicorn, maybe. [/QUOTE] A pegasus might be easier. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/18 "2008-01-26T11:43:37Z")
Well, nice selection - but did it occur to you that you dont actually need to hunt to get the trophies? My mom and dad were addicted to estate auctions when I was in my early teens and I went to at least 2 auctions a month in the summer…I saw everything except the dingo sold off at various times. Try calling taxidermists, historical societies and museums that may be deaquisitioning stuff 🙂 Me? I saw a sewing pattern for a moose head that when I found some paisley plush I desperately wanted to make into the moose head ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/19 "2008-01-26T12:12:28Z")
I dunno about animals, but there’s a few infamous heads that ought to be found on silver platters! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054/20 "2008-01-26T12:15:59Z")
Khakis and a few selected teachers from my experience. [QUOTE=The Controvert] [QUOTE=Charger] A unicorn, maybe. [/QUOTE] A pegasus might be easier. 😉 [/QUOTE] Speak for yourself, braggart. 😛 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-heads-would-you-like-on-your-wall-trophy-huntig/435054.md?page=2)