Taxidermist is not someone to have doubts about...

[Prill87]

He did a good job on my first deer and so I went back to him this year. It was a nightmare that ended with the deer coming in the right pose/wrong direction. Maybe not a big deal but at that cost you should get what you asked for. This is just me venting below.
The writing was on the wall:
1. Never contacted me after the butcher sent the cape - I went to his shop 2 months later
2. He wrote down my order on a sticky note because his wife "does the paperwork" and he didn't have any order forms.
3.Said she'd cal for down payment and to confirm - never did.
4. He texted me 3-4x stating he lost my phone number and wanted to verify it was me.
5. Asked me what I wanted again via text.
6. promised the deer in Nov. Asked him status in Dec and he said he'd have it to me in the guaranteed 14 months (on the form I never filled out) in Feb.
7. Asked me when I was coming to pick it up even though he never told me it was ready. Acted as if it was bothering him that I hadn't picked it up.
8. No set hours - had to beg him to pick it up, and he couldn't give me his a availability farther than the day of.
9. Father in law gets deer while I'm out of town - wrong direction so now I have two mounts looking left.

As far as work goes he's talented but he can't run a business and has no customer service, and he did 300 black bears this year...

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[kenn1320]

Nice buck, could have turned out worse. I shot a Doe, had it mounted. New to the area i did a google search. Found a guy and dropped it off. Talked with another guy I didn't know(on line) he said NOOO don't ever take a deer to that guy. Got the call, me and my wife went to his shop. He owned an archery shop and did taxi. He was busy with customers, so we looked around as we waited. There was a mount on the wall that looked like something out of amityville horror movie. My wife said i bet that's your deer and I said it better not be. Neck was big around as a soup can and barely longer than the throat patch. He got done and said what do you think? I said that's not the deer i brought you. He said it was and later admitted he had a new helper fleshing the cape. I was passed and said i don't want it and Im not paying for it. He offered to do my next mount for free and I said no thanks.

 

[g2outdoors]

Good grief! Awful stories.

On the brightside, Prill, your third buck was going to be the odd man out anyway. Now you just need to complete the trifecta.

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[g2outdoors]

Beautiful buck by the way!

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[Prill87]

Good grief! Awful stories.

On the brightside, Prill, your third buck was going to be the odd man out anyway. Now you just need to complete the trifecta.

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This is true. Our rule is your deer has to be bigger than your last mount or it gets a Euro. Gives me incentive to wait out for bigger bucks to balance my wall out haha


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[redsquirrel]

That sucks that you didn't get what you want and what you paid for! On the good side, at least you did get your buck back and you know not to use him again. A long time ago my father dropped a buck of with a guy, and the guy closed shop and moved and he never ever saw the buck again!

We have now developed a pretty good personal relationship with our taxidermist and will be using him as long as he is doing taxidermy. I don't mind paying a little more for great work with someone I trust.

 

[Prill87]

He said no refund he'd redo it with a different Hyde. Current one would be ruined because it is epoxied to the mold. Basically stuck and he didn't even take responsibility for the mistake


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