id give him till july...then just give him a friendly call or visit if he dont call you...just ask how its going and when he expects to finish it.

i once took a squirrel in. i didnt shop around...took it to the "big name" whose well known..looked at a few squirrels in his shop and thought they looked good. he said ok about a year..over a year later i called..he said ahhh a couple more months. then i called a couple months later.."ahhh i got a bunch of small stuff in "there"...yours is in there" (whatever there is??) a couple more months" couple months later i called again...finally he broke down " im sorry im super behind blah blah etc" nearly 3 years from when he got it i FINALLY got it back. (and it looked like CRAP)

lesson learned...shop around....i should have just took it after a year and a half or 2 years...i KNOW he turns out big game and big money mounts in a few months or within a years time. i know it. he told me once that he just finished up the deer from that season and will be starting the small stuff now...i was like what the heck...a deer is done within a year...but a squirrel you wait for YEARS!!?!? if you dont want to do them turn them down!!!

i will never go back to him or let anyone i know go back to him....ive now found a GOOD taxidermist that has good prices and does absolutely AWESOME work and even a little fish he will have done within a year or so...i will wait for a quality mount...and im a patient man if you dont lie to me....im understanding...just say hey somethin came up its going to be a while longer...