You are a funny man! LOL! I will post this one too since I claim part ownership as it was killed from the same tree as my buck 10 days later. Hey... What are friends for right????
.....still waiting on my sep 20th buck. the taxi said 10-12 months. After seeing his work it'll be worth the wait!
I'd find a different taxi.... Even Picasso didn't take that long to paint a master piece. You had to be almost first, if not first in the queue with a Sept. 20th harvest. That is the exact same day I harvested my buck and I had mine back before Christmas. I am like a kid in a candy store. I want it... I want it right NOW!
In that case I can post this one: Blade. 4 years chasing him. My brother got him with a rifle from my stand and I watched him die 20 yards from where I was sitting at the time.
ya...it's been a tough wait. Once i see the finished product i'll make a decision if i should find another one. i think he waited till the end of the season to send in ALL of the hides to get tanned in one shot.....kinda sucks because like you guys said, i WAS the first one in.
First, this wasn't with a bow. Got it with a shotgun. But I'm very proud of it! And no, it's not hanging in the garage now, that was when we stopped at the in-laws to show him off.
There are two things that taxidermist doto maximize their return. Wait to send their hides off in bulk . 2. Order their forms/supplies in bulk. I am fortunate as my taxi runs a professional tannery so I never have to wait. It's really comical when you think about. A good taxi can knock out mounts really fast. From start to finish their isn't more then a couple weeks in the process and that with drying time ext.... So in the scheme of thing 9-12 month wait time to me is ridiculous. Almost as bad as ordering a bow from Mathews. LOL!
This is the one that I let walk, had him at 20 yards and 25 yards within 12 hours. Ended up having a reproduction done of him. The 14 pointer I took in November with bow, I just got back this evening actually and don't have any pics of it. A bit disappointed in how it turned out. My taxidermist has been having a lot of serious heart problems with his daughter and I'm sure was pretty rushed to get though work that's piled up on him. This mount is a bit wacky looking, like the mount was way too small for the cape and so he hemmed the cape to make it fit and now the head size is wonky. I just paid the man and left with the mount, if I decide I can't live with it at some later point I can have it redone with a new cape and some pics of the actual deer before caped out. It's not all that bad. Edit* Here is a pic of the new 2013 bowkill
