Nugent sells some big game trophy, plans to move

WACO, Texas -- The Nuge is apparently on the move. But he is not going far.

Transplanted Detroit rocker Ted Nugent conducted an estate sale over the weekend, peddling big game trophies to make relocation to a nearby Texas ranch a bit easier.

"Hey, he's still in Texas. He's not going anywhere except on tour," said James "Big Jim" Brown, who ran the sale and described himself as general manager of "all things Nuge."

The guitarist/singer, an avid hunter and gun enthusiast, moved from Jackson County, Mich., to Central Texas several years ago, first finding a home in China Spring. From there, he moved to nearby Crawford -- home of President Bush's ranch -- and then into Waco.

Nugent and his family determined that "the simpler life back on SpiritWild Ranch (in China Spring) is the way to go," he wrote in his "Texas Wildman" column in the Waco Tribune-Herald.

China Spring is only about 12 miles from Waco.

The sale was conducted Friday and Saturday at the Heart O' Texas Fairgrounds.

Items available for purchase included a Volkswagen Beetle-sized rhinoceros head and zebra stallion mounts, along with bleached deer skulls signed by Nugent, the newspaper reported. The bulk of the estate sale involved the trophies and furniture. The rhino was priced at $9,900 and a Barbary sheep mount started at $1,900.

It was not immediately clear how much of the merchandise sold.

The "Motor City Madman" may be best known for his 1977 hit "Cat Scratch Fever."