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1st hunt
Greyghost,
You and I are both guilty of the same thing, speaking in generalities when writing about specifics. The "turn around" time on taxidermy for me, locally, is over one year. Is the quality good, yep! Better than my taxidermist in RSA, I don't think so, but then again, I did a lot of homework in selecting a taxidermist in RSA. On another forum a hunter displayed his buffalo done in the US. First the horns weren't the same as the one he killed and secondly the buffalo looked like a domestic cow. Can the same thing happen had he had it done in Africa? Yep. Would it be easier resolved in the US? With our legal system? The coin is in the air on that one. African PH's have a tremendous influence on taxidermists since they are a huge source of a client base for taxidermist. To anger and lose that source of clients could spell the death song for that taxidermist's shop. One last thing, if Heaven forbid, if anything bad happens to any of your capes in handling, shipping, or at the local taxidermist, does he have a replacement?
My trohies are over 5 years old and have been on display at the last 5 SHOT Shows and are still beautiful and drawing praise for the life like quality. I think both you and I did our homework and are well please with the work we had done and that my friend is the key, doing the home work. God Bless.
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