Do hides and horns have to go to usda facility?

[JimP]

Don't get the USDA inspection confused with a USDA certified receiver.

All shipments go through the USDA inspection but then depending on what is in the shipment determines if it needs to go to a USDA certified receiver or if it can be shipped to your home or taxidermist.

 

[kevin masters]

All dip and pack goes to USDA facility. Just got stuck with that adder last week. USDA clearance fee of $312.28. And they did the tanning as well. Two skins. Two skulls.

my taxidermist wants to do the tanning, lol he is very particular

 

[kevin masters]

Don't get the USDA inspection confused with a USDA certified receiver.

All shipments go through the USDA inspection but then depending on what is in the shipment determines if it needs to go to a USDA certified receiver or if it can be shipped to your home or taxidermist.

That's what I thought it is just so confusing

 

[Hunt anything]

After 4 shipments I’ve given up trying to figure out every law and regulations, I sit back let the professionals handle everything. But I do hate the costs and basically paying for some of the same services twice.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Yeah, after ONE shipment I'm going to pass next time and buy a very nice (maybe two) custom rifles for what the taxidermy and shipping cost, and "mount" them above some 12x16 photos of the animals I took on the Safari. I'll still have the rifles LONG after the mounts I have end up in the basement or worse. LOL

 

[Hunt anything]

I think I have two more trips to Africa in me. I have taken most of the big animals I want to take except eland and wildebeest. I plan on rectifying the wildebeest next year and will make a rug and euro mount. Hunt smaller antelope and predators have some mounted and some euro if they happen to be exceptional trophies. This should keep the crate and weight to a minimum.
My last trip will hopefully conclude with a GIANT buffalo making my last African animal the same as my first except a lot bigger. I will bite the bullet and have him shipped and mounted as a bookend to my first buff. Then sit back and tell stories and reminisce and remember when!

 

[Oldnerd]

All incomplete trophies, I've been told, must be sent to a facility approved by the USDA. I know you should be able to have it transported to your house if you so choose, but that doesn't always happen.