I play around with taxidermy some, just for myself not in the business. Too much extra work. I finally got around to mounting my 06 buck. Note the hole in his right ear. I still need to do the finish work, like paint the nose and around the eyes. But I thought iI would show he coming along

Dude, you did that YOURSELF?? Incredible, very, very cool.

Looks really good! Cant wait to see it when it is finished completely!

very nice (respect)

I have a friend who does it full time. I spend enough time at his shop that I pretty much taught myself. I do have him tan my hides for me tho. Here is the before pic.

what I want to know is how you start doing something like that in your spare time. I mean how did you learn. I think that looks pretty damn good.

very nice... How much did it cost you to do that? I have been want to experiment as well. I would like to try.... I have no experience or education in taxidermy. How hard is it? Be honest

steve

ok forget my previous post about how did you learn apparently we were typing at the same time

I better not tell what the actual supplies cost.(trade secrets) Lets just say there is a lot more labor in it than the cost of the materials, very time consuming.

It really helps that I have seen it done hundreds of times at my buddies shop. Plus I have a couple of reference books to look at. To just start out with no experience would be kinda tuff.

gotcha, i figured it would take a long time and from what I referenced it would have cost around $110? I dunno tho. But it would be fun to tinker with... Oh well, I guess ill pay someone Thanks