Posted on January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 by Rita Schimpff — Leave a comment

Bring the Wild Inside: The Safari Lifestyle

Bring the Wild Inside: Safari Lifestyle

Since January is the time for all the huge Safari Expositions across the country I thought we would revisit a post I did for the Women’s Outdoor News on how to Bring the Wild Inside with Safari Lifestyle! You can read my full post at the WON archives: http://www.womensoutdoornews.com/2015/06/tips-from-rita-schimpff-on-the-art-of-the-safari-lifestyle

The following vignette I made from vintage family sporting memorabilia, books and letters, it was used by Safari Club International for convention advertising.

Rita Schimpff of Heritage Game Mounts next to 'Tusk' by John Banovich at convention — Rita Schimpff of Heritage Game Mounts next to ‘Tusk’ by John Banovich at convention

African Antler Display by Heritage Game Mounts — African Animals displayed with natural linen and an ornate panel of oak leaves & acorns – all by Heritage Game Mounts

Posted on November 7, 2014September 22, 2015 by siteadmin — Leave a comment

Wild Turkey Home Decor

Wild Turkey Home Decor

Bringing the Wild Inside for Thanksgiving

These plates and platter are called Wild Turkeys made by Johnson Brothers England. They belonged to my mother in law and the two little turkeys are actually vintage candy containers.

Wild Turkey Home Décor for Thanksgiving is made easy with wild turkey feathers!

I have been asked by the Women’s Outdoor News to bring my blog to their readers each month. This is my 3rd post and if you want to learn:

1. Ideas for diy table decorations & colors

2. How to dry and preserve you own harvested turkey tail

3. Could the earliest Thanksgiving actually been in Virginia?

And a new product to share with you

These beautiful handcrafted lapel pins are new and not yet on the site. In keeping with our tradition of all USA made goods, these wet winged flies are tied by a creative young man in Georgia – each is one of a kind.

So you better Strut on over to visit my post at:

http://www.womensoutdoornews.com/2014/10/bringing-wild-turkey-home-decor/

And see for yourself!

Posted on April 4, 2014July 18, 2014 by Rita Schimpff — Leave a comment

New Additions & Updates: New Panel for Elk & New angling/shooting Lodges

It’s been awhile since I have sent a news update-

Plenty going on and a couple of new blog posts- and best of all- what you have been asking for-

A new panel for larger game like elk….so I will catch you up!

February and March found us in very drastic temperature changes.

Early February found us in the Yucatan catching our first Tarpon and Bonefish on a fly at the

wonderful Casa Blanca Lodge.

See our related blog post of this fantastic trip

http://www.HeritageGameMounts.com/barefoot-flyfishing-in-february-ascension-bay-casa-blanca-lodge

Then March found us tromping after quail in unusual 26 degree snow & ice terrain at another wonderful lodge at

Upland Bird Country in Corsicanna, Tx

I finally found a shooting sweater that was good looking, warm and suited for ladies

so I did a guest gear review for Ultimate Upland Lodge magazine

http://www.ultimateuplandlodge.com/magazine/read/ladies-end-of-year-gear-review-favs-Old–new_169.html

And then….

My new design- a black forest style panel for elk and stag has arrived!

We introduced the new design at the Greater Houston Gun Club in a fundraising shoot benefitting

the

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Turns out—it makes a pretty fabulous mirror too! Shown here in the Blackberry finish.

I think I need to paint one of my dog portraits on a panel too!

Can’t you see one of your canine companions on a panel?

We are in the process of updating our website so we can better showcase all our new

sporting art & accessories like:

Our collection of Texas made shooting pens- here is the 30 Cal Bolt Action writing pen.

The action opens and closes the pen!

Please come ‘like’ our page on Facebook so you don’t have to wait so long to learn what we are up to!

https://www.facebook.com/HeritageGameMounts

Rita Schimpff

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Rita Schimpff — Leave a comment

Roads Recently Traveled: Celebrities, Pheasants & Fly Fishing

Borski 2012 — Skip & Rita flanking special guest, Tim Borksi of Florida at the Ed Rizzolo Fly Tying Festival 2012.

Most of our hunting dies down in late January, but I still had a few upland hunts left and the anticipation of the fishing season to come. We seemed to be on the road a lot in Jan, Feb and March traveling Texas. Along the way we met some fun outdoor celebs: Noted wildlife cook and author of GirlHunter, Georgia Pellegrini http://georgiapellegrini.com , then we attended the Ed Rizzolo Fly Tying Festival in Houston and met the wildly interesting and talented fly tyer and artist, Tim Borski of Florida. Then to Troutfest in New Braunfels, TX where we had our trade booth and were entertained by keynote guest, Pat Dorsey owner of the Blue Quill Angler of Evergreen, CO http://bluequillangler.com and then to Sportsman’s Finest in Austin http://www.SportsmansFinest.com to have some fun while learning bass fishing tips with Bob Clouser from Pennsylvania and inventor of the Clouser Minnow http://www.clouserflyfishing.com

Pellegrini — Meeting Georgia at her book signing in Austin. Love the Red! Her book GirlHunter takes this classicly trained chef out into the wild to 'hunt' for her food.

Pat Dorsey-Evergreen, CO — Troutfest speaker, Pat Dorsey (center) has over 1400 fly bins at his Blue Quill Angler in Evergreen, CO!

Georgia also introduced me to Key of A shotgun jewelry. Skip gave me my 28 ga bracelet for Valentine's Day!

clousser 2012 — Bob Clouser--Not only did I pick up some great tips on fishing bass in heavy cover, but he was nice enough to give me a signed cap for St. Patrick's Day! I had the pleasure of meeting him 2 yrs ago in Houston - charming man!

Also, at Troutfest I had my booth for Heritage Game Mounts and introduced my new “Trout Skins” pillows. I handpaint fish and outdoor scenes on lambskin and then sew into pillows of rich trims, velvet & suedes.

HGM's Booth at Troutfest - introducing 'Trout Skins'

Middle of February found us once again on a fabulous shoot at Gerry & Eldena Stearns’ Santa Anna Hunting Preserve. Even with the cover down from the Texas ‘exceptional’ drought, the hunt was a success thanks to Gerry’s great dogs: American Field Brittanys, German Shorthairs and a sassy little French Brittany named Lucy.

Santa Anna 2012 — The 3 Schimpff's and pheasant take - Thank you, Rico (my wonderful bro in law)!

Eldena does such a wonderful job with the birds: the care and breeding. And as a special favor to me she skinned a couple of the beautiful pheasants and told me how to tan them. We will see how I do!

: Blow drying the pheasant after washing in Dawn detergent!

HAPPY TRAILS & STREAMS!