This is my parents back yard when I was growing up.  
The shed in the back ground is full of deer and elk
sets.  My brother is standing by the stack, which I built.  
I'm standing on the roof of my parents house to take
the picture.  My brother is over 6 foot tall.

I wired elk antlers together,standing them on their
bases, to build the stack.  Then I hung deer antlers on
the outside.    

The set of elk antlers on the top are massive.  It took
me two days to get them packed out of the mountains.  
The stack blew over one year, and  the skull broke into.

When my wife and I bought a place of
our own there was an old house on the
property, and I started my first horn
shed.

The ones on the back wall are ones I
shot.  Notice the whitetail on the right.  
It has an inside spread of 26 inches
and main beams of 24 inches.

This was in the early 70's, and I had
around 2000 antlers.

In the late 70's, I built two archways .  I never did
count how many elk antlers were in each one but
there were over 400.

My oldest daughter is standing in the center and
she was just over 5' at the time.

I used deer sheds to hang off the elk antlers so
the ones I used had to have a good eye guard.

The elk sets on the top are 300 bulls or better
and were stolen along with 25 other set a few
years later.

This is the same old house in the top picture.  I
tore the roof off it and raised the walls 12'.  I used
old paneling on the walls.

It was 16' x 24' and held about a 10th of the
antlers I had at that time.  It served me well for 15
years or so.  A lot of people stopped by to look it
over.

Their were sky lights in the roof, something I wish
I had put in the new horn house.

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