tomgobbler

Hey chef javelina hair works great for tieing flys - ive got a guy in Wyoming that ties for a big shop , & he contacts me every year to get a left over piece , cause it works so well . txt me your shipping adress if you don’t get what you need , I’ll send ya some stuff.

Thought ide share a water buffalo -I finished , dont get to see them everyday- Have no idea why pic came sideways - someone feel free to turn them

Yea you’re not the first one to see “Cape buffalo “ - ….. but yea just a “Texas style “ water buffalo …..

Just finished up this bull for a client - Ive never seen blonde stripes in velvet before - this was the main one but the same shape and pattern went up the brow time about 4 times , getting fainter and fainter as it went up towards the tip .

Any coues capes in your freezers that your wife is tired of moving around to get to the steak - had a couple clients go to Mexico and not get across the border with their capes .

U can shoot a cow for about $3k at the hunting ranch in woodruff - have a hide - skull and get it processed how you want -

Just got these two deer back from tannery - quite a difference in tail color .

I don’t know how old she is , but if she’s out of school do her a favor and send her to a good taxidermy school ….. I’ll tell ya what a really good thing would be for her if she really wants to get into it - is birds - if you sent her to a good bird course / or personal school - there are some great one on one or small class schools - And if she would specialize in ducks / birds she could stay as busy as she wanted and be very successful- she wouldn’t have to be lifting and dealing with big elk and buffalo forms and heavy hides - she could work on the delicate and very detail oriented birds - with quite a bit less “manual” labor - not saying she can’t do that too - but if she would specialize in birds and get really good at it - a lot of other shops would send their work to her - a lot of them don’t do birds and she wouldn’t be competing with them . And a good bird taxidermist is hard to find around here - I get more and more calls every winter for ducks and geese , people having a hard time finding someone to do them ….. and i take them but would rather not ….. I know she could do pretty well if she would specialize in that …… Just food for thought ……. if you want to bring her down to Taylor some time ide be happy to show her my shop and visit with her and answer any general questions she might have …… I went to an 8 week school in Iowa - between my “regular” college semesters at NAU one summer in 1997 I think it was ….

Good luck to her - women make great taxidermist - but don’t say All companies up here have a 2 year wait - agreed MOST DO, but I’ve been doing it close to 30 years & have maintained a 6 month turn around , with few exceptions . And 80% less than that …..

The main one I use is Wildlife Fur Dressing in ceres CA . They can’t except mountain lions because of Ca no lion hunting laws - so I have several tanneries for different reasons , but I’ve used Wildlife fur for about 30 years ….

How did the taxidermist ruin it ? I baught 5 , coming from Wyoming next week - I haven’t seen them yet to check them out , but would sale ya one of them if they are as good as they are suppose to be . But won’t know tell I get my hands on them - they are wet tanned .

Just a reminder for all the late hunters - check those monitors - when running your heaters in this cold ! I needed an antelope cape for a replacement from one of my clients that ruined his this year - and I’ve got a good friend in Wyoming , that has a good friend that’s a taxidermist there , so I reached out to him this week to have him ask the guy if he had some extras - and he Informed me of the very sad & tragic news that his buddy and another friend had went on a hunt a few weeks ago and went to bed that night and neither one ever woke up …. have fun on your hunts , but most importantly make it back to your families ! Good luck to everyone !

I had to pay the postage on my 3 javy tags - game and fish didn’t put any on them and post office made me pay it ..

4 javy tags and my son drew SECOND CHOICE GOULDS TAG with 22 points

Saw two up by big lake 15 years ago , about a year apart - about 5 miles from each other , one was In the white phase …..

Says the game unit manager - who recommended and GOT PASSSED a tag reduction - doesn’t mean you can’t find deer , doesn’t mean there aren’t great bucks - but yes They are at lower numbers then what they have been .

Anyone happen to have a hen turkey in their freezer ? Skinned for a lifesize mount ? thanks

I’m building a house - the cement guy required a deposit , plumber required a deposit , the sheetrockers required a deposit , the HVAC required a deposit. Those are the only things I hired I do everything else myself . So not sure why everyone is saying other businesses don’t require one - and yes I require a deposit to cover the tanning and forms and work I do ( skinning , fleshing , salting ) before it even gets sent to tannery . Only had a couple times in almost 30 years people didn’t return to get their stuff back .

Elkwalker I do taxidermy here in Arizona - I live in Taylor - the pic i posted of taxidermy requirements is from Az game and fish websight

Been that way for a long time - my memory is terrible , but I think there has always been a slot for both tag and hunt number -( have to dig up an old form to see what it had ) just a tag number doesn’t really tie that animal to anything ( there are thousands of tag #1 , but with tag number 1 and unit number 3000 , there is only one of those ….. used to have to fill out a paper form for every animal / hunter and mail it in … I’ve been doing taxidermy for almost 30 years - it went from quarterly reporting to once a year ( mailin ) then to the online system - but there system hasn’t caught up with everything else they do - for example the E-Tag ….. if you just give the taxidermist the E-tag then he doesn’t have the rest of that info - & there was no specific place to put the ETag number in..,. ( when reporting last year ) If you put it in the tag number it still wants the rest of the info - but the hunter doesn’t obviously have that in hand with them - because they didn’t physically have it in hand …. So yea will see if they have updated the system when reporting this year ….

What that says and what it asks for in submitting the report is different .

Sorry this happened to you , that really stinks , I really hope you get them back - I’ve had many people bring me there stuff from others , for this exact reason …… Big - He “ ( the taxidermist ) is suppose to record the tag number and hunt number from your tag for his records for game and fish - so he has your unit ……

Congrats on a great tag - Trophy ridge outfitters - Audrey McQueen - she’s a 9 time world champion elk caller - her main hunting lodge is in Luna - but generally has a good camp in the 16’s as well -( depending on how the draw went with all her clients ) I’ve guided for her off and on but I was mainly in 15 out of her Luna lodge , but we always had some big bulls come out of the 16’s ….. but yea 300-330 is more common .

Anyone have any GOOD elk capes In the freezer , that their wives are wanting to get out . I have a customer that wants to get a few heads mounted . Thanks Tommy