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After our huge Cook/Balfour trip and the spectacular bull I was fortunate enough to take home, I started thinking about how I could share that physical reminder with the rest of the crew.

I had heard tales of clients in the states and Alaska getting replica moulds made of the expensive trophy Stone or Bighorn rams and gifting them to guides. I looked in to this option and it was prohibitively expensive for a kiwi magazine editor!

I let the idea bubble awayWinter Wapiti Weekend, and I thought how cool would it be to have copies made of the huge old trophies like the Nitz head so that people could actually handle them and truly feel the weight and size without risking those precious originals.

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