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In the fall of 2007, I was lucky enough to harvest my biggest White Tail deer to date. I was super excited and not entirely sure what I needed to do next, as I had never harveested anything big enough to even consider taking to the taxidermist. I contacted a local taxidermist, cold called him out of the yellow pages. He was super helpful and explained what I needed to do to properly cape out the buck. When I completed the caping I transported the head and cape to the taxidermist here in Calgary. We talked for a over an hour as he took me through the shop and showed me many fine examples of his work. He then informed me that it could take up to a year to complete my mount, he filled out a AFG Taxidermist Record, gave me a copy and sent me on my way. I left feeling glad, both about how helpful he had been and about how good his mounts looked.
Now that was 7 years ago, I have not received my head back yet!!!! I have contacted the Taxidermist on several occasions, every time I contact him he tells me the same thing, "I will be working on heads next week (month), thanks for your patience and I will contact you when it is ready"
Now I am starting to think that I have been played, the only good thing is I have not invested any cash into this deal. With the amount of time that has passed I could have learned how to perform taxidermy myself!!!! At this point I would like to get the rack back, I am certain that my cape is either no longer viable or has been used, so I am not looking for that, but I would like the rack, so I could at least do a plaque mount.
Now this was not a record book deer, so I don't think that the rack has been stolen, but I was wondering if anyone has had any similar situation, or how I could go about getting my property returned. Thanks in advance any help is greatly appreciated.
Basher81
In the fall of 2007, I was lucky enough to harvest my biggest White Tail deer to date. I was super excited and not entirely sure what I needed to do next, as I had never harveested anything big enough to even consider taking to the taxidermist. I contacted a local taxidermist, cold called him out of the yellow pages. He was super helpful and explained what I needed to do to properly cape out the buck. When I completed the caping I transported the head and cape to the taxidermist here in Calgary. We talked for a over an hour as he took me through the shop and showed me many fine examples of his work. He then informed me that it could take up to a year to complete my mount, he filled out a AFG Taxidermist Record, gave me a copy and sent me on my way. I left feeling glad, both about how helpful he had been and about how good his mounts looked.
Now that was 7 years ago, I have not received my head back yet!!!! I have contacted the Taxidermist on several occasions, every time I contact him he tells me the same thing, "I will be working on heads next week (month), thanks for your patience and I will contact you when it is ready"
Now I am starting to think that I have been played, the only good thing is I have not invested any cash into this deal. With the amount of time that has passed I could have learned how to perform taxidermy myself!!!! At this point I would like to get the rack back, I am certain that my cape is either no longer viable or has been used, so I am not looking for that, but I would like the rack, so I could at least do a plaque mount.
Now this was not a record book deer, so I don't think that the rack has been stolen, but I was wondering if anyone has had any similar situation, or how I could go about getting my property returned. Thanks in advance any help is greatly appreciated.
Basher81
