Thread: Taxidermy costs

Originally Posted by lincoln2x

Does anyone know the price of game birds ( duck and pheasant ) to taxidermy
Also how much would a goat or deer cost

you know a point about putting heads up on the wall - full mounts are in many respects an American idea - photos of European castles stately homes etc shows that just skull and antlers are more the norm - just simply hung up on wall - even in that dysfunctional British familys castles (Balmoral etc) just skull and antlers - whole corridors with dozens up -and a lot of the heads are not very good -Germans seem to like a nice wooden shield behind the skull - just saying as most of that one can do yourself

look forward to seeing completed job.....

U will get to in about 12 mths md

i have a couple of ducks that need to go to taxi, where is a good place near palmy i can take them?

Originally Posted by 338Lapua_cam

i have a couple of ducks that need to go to taxi, where is a good place near palmy i can take them?

There was a guy in Longburn that did a lot of my birds Max Voss did them but I don't know if he is still doing the job.

$1750 for a fallow withVern Pearson. Same for a sika. 2 years ago it was $1450

1981 - shoulder mount for a 8 pt sika stag i shot - Clarks Taxi in Taupo was $150.00. About 2007 a 14 pt red stag I shot was $1k from O'Roukes, Pleasant Point. Back then I thought the prices were okay for the 80's but didn't have other commitments in my early days. From 2000's had a house etc but again few of those electrical gadgets so life was simple....

Originally Posted by Hunteast

1981 - shoulder mount for a 8 pt sika stag i shot - Clarks Taxi in Taupo was $150.00. About 2007 a 14 pt red stag I shot was $1k from O'Roukes, Pleasant Point. Back then I thought the prices were okay for the 80's but didn't have other commitments in my early days. From 2000's had a house etc but again few of those electrical gadgets so life was simple....

I had my 14pt red done about the same time at O’Roukes it was $850 and still looks as good today as it did back then. How has yours held up?

maybe it was less than grand..parents payed for it... but it sure wasnt the $150 you put in #19

Well if a typical shoulder mount takes about 20 hours to do @ about $60 hr for labour, (because it is a skilled job). That's not counting the cost of the form (whether bought or home made), glass eyes, tanning, hide paste, paints etc etc etc.... The cost mounts up.... no pun intended One thing I've noticed about many hunters is that they spend a fortune on gear, but want the cheapest taxidermy, tanning and butchery.... Sure everyone wants good value, and that's fair enough. But usually; quality costs.....

Alot of the costs have gone up in the last couple of years like most things. Also some of the supply chain in the taxidermy line has been hammered from overseas supplies but it is improving.

I got this done in the 90's guided hunt with O'Rourkes one night and one day. Shot 7 and they mounted the buck wallaby.Cost 800 dollars back then.

now dundee I KNOW that fella has been done 100% correct,those boys were plurry good at thier jobs...but there are two things that my eyes pick out from a wallaby in distance...that one really shows the two tone grey road cone..but the micky mouse ears not so much

Heres the one I shot 38 years ago and also done by O'Rourkes, the kids and nephews pulled off the finger nails, bent the ears and its a bit sun bleached. It has the same peice of wood as Dundees

Some (or all) of you all will already know. O'Rourkes was brought out by Brodie Green, he used to work for Tyrone Southward in Dunsandle. Absolute top bloke.

Check him out https://www.southernalpstaxidermy.co.nz/