Hunting is fun but when you get a bunch of trophies, housing them is sometimes a problem. Baytown's Freeman Pruett built a new home with a special trophy room, just for housing his mounted kills.

CONTINENTAL big game hunter and Baytown sportsman, Freeman Pruett, didn't realize what he was getting into in following his avocation. For years, Pruett has hunted in Canada, Alaska, Mexico and the Rockies. As he made his trips, he began to accumulate more and more trophies which he had mounted. Housing them, no problem in the beginning, became a real headache. There was nothing left for him to do but build a trophy room-and a new house. He frankly admits that the house itself was a secondary thought in the construction job that followed. The trophy room is 31 1/2 feet long, 181/2 feet wide, and is 14 feet high at one end, tapering down to nine feet at the other. It houses 22 all of hunts, including big Alaskan bears, Canadian moose even an imported black buck antelope killed on Capt. Eddie Rick-enbacker's ranch in West Texas. One section houses a number of cups he has won in state and national outboard racing competition and skeet.shooting. The room lacks only one prized item which Pruett hopes to add this fall. He has gone to Wyoming five times trying to bag, a trophy Elk, but so far he has missed. He saved a placed for that one, so he is optimistic. His present trophy room will be satisfactory until he goes to India or Africa. When that day comes, Pruett says he is going to build another trophy room because the one he now has will be fullwhen he adds that elk.
		The "international wall" carries two of Pruett's prizes, an Alaskan brown bear, and of extreme left, a moose trophy taken in British Columbia, Canada

Two trophies sportsman Pruett prizes highly are an Indian black buck antelope and a black bear paw ash tray.	A special case protects and displays some of the huntsman's high-powered guns

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