Sorry to hear that BWH.
" You saw your trophy for a few moments or seconds before you harvested him......Your going to look at your taxidermy mount for the rest of your life "
Price the BIG commercial, big name shops in the US where your mount is cookie cutter or what we say are turn and burn mounts.
With 12 to 16 taxidermist working in the back rooms.
You will find I'm Less Expensive and BETTER quality. Plain and Simple.
They produce Thousands, tens of thousands of mounts a year with dozens of employees....
Same as some African Studios , HUGE production line operations and again many dozens of employees...
Who is really mounting your trophy? An employee that is doing it for a paycheck and a quota they must meet every week?
I do it to have unsurpassed quality that they can't touch.
All taxidermy looks good from 20 to 30 feet away....
I mount every trophy and my finisher creates the soft tissue and airbrush them back to life.
Who shows you close ups of there mounts? and why don't they?
When comparing africa to our for taxidermy,
SURE your going to get a shoulder mount in africa for an average of 200.00 less or so.
And not have to pay your dip pack.
Your still going to pay for the export documents as you would for dip pack and then pay for crating and shipping the finished mounts and that gets expensive. Other will tell you it's not I have failed yet to see a shipping deal from everseas. I had a client just get a $4,800 bill for shipping his last safari before he used my studio. He worked the numbers from that work and all the fees and the cost was within $150.00 when totaled that he could have shipped home his work and had it completed by our studio.
As hunters we all admire and enjoy the BEAUTY of wildlife and have a love for the animals we work so hard at our jobs to be able to enjoy or time on safari and send the days in the field.
Your mounts are a legacy of your life, well lived. Get them done by an artist and the owner of this company, myself.
Not everyone appreciates realistic quality but for those that do.
Give me a call or message me
Thanks
Dennis