What is a Re-creation from your Calendars?

The process was first developed by founder Robert King in early 1990s. He looked to bring back to life – in photographic form – some of the huge bucks and bulls that had been taken by hunters using the computer. The basic concept or meaning of the word “re-creations” as far as our calendar images are concerned is where we have taken the antlers from a record class mule deer, elk, or whitetail deer. Using the computer, the antlers are “re-created” or super-imposed back on a live body of a deer or elk. The goal is to showcase the animal in live form just as if a photographer was able to get a photo of the animal out in the field.

The re-creation images are not “real” and we try hard to educate and tag our re-creation/calendar images as such. But the antlers and body photography are real. This is the reason for our image protection code implemented in our Re-creation Archive section of the web site. All of the images in our King’s Calendars are custom re-creations. Every animal that is featured, is from a legit deer or elk and are from fair chase animals that have either been taken by a hunter, found dead, or sheds that have been picked up.

Many of the heads we have featured are currently state records and even world records. King’s is known for featuring the biggest animals in the world, and through our custom re-creation process, we continue to release 36 new images each year from the biggest animals taken each year or old ones discovered in a basement from years past.

Currently, King’s has over 350 re-creation images in our archives. Our first calendar featuring re-creations was the 1996 King’s Mule Deer Calendar. This calendar was released in the summer/fall of 1995.

King’s re-creations can also be found in our King’s Prints. These prints, like the Magnificent Seven, are a compilation of re-creations combined with a beautiful backdrop photo. Again, the antlers are all from legit, record class mule deer but the print itself is not a real photograph.