Grateful Buck Skull

This was a private commission for my friend Dave who is a Grateful Dead loving musician and a hunter. 

This 10-point buck was harvested by Dave and his brother Gary near Mt. Princeton not far from Buena Visa, Colorado.  I’ve come to believe the most humane way to consume meat is to allow an animal to live their wild and natural life and to be taken in a single expertly placed shot.  Both excellent marksman, Dave and Gary’s ritual for their hunts is always a clean shot, a prayer of gratitude and then to pack out all of the meat and process it themselves. Dinners with Dave always involve a menu of game and the story of the hunt. The hunting adventure stories always convey respect, reverence and gratitude for their time together as brothers, nature and the animals themselves.

Grateful Buck now resides over the mantle in Dave’s home.