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I'll echo everyone else: Don't try to pinch pennies by going with the cheapest guy. It's work an extra 40 or 50 bucks to have a top quality mount. When you find one you are intersted in, check out several pieces of his work before you agree to a deal. Seems like the mounts are going up 10-20 bucks a year here for the last few years.

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$325 for a shoulder mount 30+ years of experience and a mount that looks great for years and years (2 year wait until you get it back)

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2 year wait WOW!!! I killed my buck in oct. last year and had it back in Feb. I expect about the same with this years buck. And to beat it all he does great work.

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got mine done for $275...the man is like 90 years old and has a terrific trophy room...find someone who isn't in it for the money but for the love of it...I guess find someone who will sit down and share hunting tales with you....

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$475 here and there are cheaper around, but he has done all my deer and I am very pleased.

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$275:00 with a three to four month turn around.

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I'm paying $500, andstill waiting from last season. Good things come to those who wait?;):D

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Mine is going to cost 360.00 this year. My first one in 2004 (mountable deer) cost 325.00, so it was only a 35.00 increase over a 3 year period.

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I know your guy is good so I'm just making a generalization here...

One has to be very careful judging a taxidermist by "ribbons" because there are ways to win these without being very good. Take for example a local taxi in my area, his animals are terrible, he's legally blind and really misses many details when he does animals, oddly enough he's busy BUT he has many championship ribbons as well.....how? If a taxidermist enters a contest, they may have the only animal in a certain catagory and thusly, wins!

And don't judge a taxidermist by his "price" either. Saying, don't go to a cheap taxidermist, you get what you pay for is misleading as well. A guy who sucks could charge more than most and still suck and in PA, he'd be busy because the demand is out there.

Judge a taxidermist by his work alone, if you don't know what your looking for, study works of art so you do know.

I use a local taxidermist and I feel he's one of the best, he's less than some, more than others but, he's one of the best, just not greedy.

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Average is about $350 here and there are getting to be more guys doing it. Several years ago my first mount cost me $185 from an award winning taxadermist and former outdoor writer, but that was years ago and he has since passed away.[&o]