Please text or call me at 317-922-8615 if you have any other questions.
It would be three to six months for me right now. I do animals in the order that they come so if i have a few deer and you bring in a squirrel, I will do those deer first then the squirrel.
I do take checks but it is highly recommended to pay cash. Half the amount with be payed up front and the rest will be needed before or the day of pickup.
It is different for all but I need your name, address, phone number, date the animal was killed, county the animal was killed in, and what you killed the animal with (bow, muzzleloader, shotgun).
I am located on the east side of Noblesville, Indiana near State Road 37 and 191st street.
For shoulder mounts, you should field dress it as soon as possible, tag your animal, then take it to a freezer/meat processor. If left out for too long, your animal could go bad and the fur could start to fall out. It is also preferred that you get any shoulder mount animal caped before bringing it to a taxidermist.
For full body mounts, coyotes or smaller, there is no need to field dress, just tag and place in the freezer. There is a specific way I like to cut the animals for mounting, therefore no need to skin it out. I prefer to have animals brought to me already thawed.
For full body mounts, deer and bigger, please field dress with as little incisions as possible. Tag the deer and take to the meat processor/freezer. Let the processor know you’re doing a full body mount and they should give you the whole hide.
This is a very difficult question because every animal is different. They each have a fleshing phase, tanning phase, mounting phase, and drying phase. There is no guaranteed time it will take. Right now for me, the wait time is about a six month maximum.
If you navigate to the waiting list in my drop down menu, you should see your initials and the number on your receipt I gave you. Top of the list is what I am working on and the bottom of the list is what I just got in.
I do! Any animal without antlers would take 150 dollars off the original price, so for a whitetail doe it would be 600 dollars.
I offer a youth 20% deer discount and a veterans 20% discount
I tan all of my hides in house. I only do what is called a taxidermy tan or a hard tan. I do not soft tan hides yet.
As of this year I use beetles for all Europeans. I skin as much meat off each head as much as possible taking the eyes, jaw bone, and brains out. Then I place the head in my beetle inclosure and wait. After all the meat has been eaten, I decrease with dawn dish soap and whiten with hydrogen peroxide.