Bowmans Taxidermy Bundaberg

26/02/2025

Another boar ready to leave here. This was the huge boar from CapeYork taken by bow. He shows the typical head shape of pigs up there, but I’ve not seen too many that weigh around 160kg. Cracker of a boar

26/02/2025

Here’s a nice coloured boar I finished today. Caught in western QLD 6 weeks ago it’s a quick turnaround on this mount.

18/02/2025

18/02/2025

This Red stag in full roar is finished except for the base which the customer chose to make. A beautiful mount to do justice to such a great trophy taken by bow in NSW

17/02/2025

Fallow deer and red stag finished and ready for delivery/ collection

06/02/2025

This weeks project was skinning, tanning and mounting a Western QLD boar delivered last week. Typical of those smaller sized boars with sharp tusks from the St George area caught by dogs in 40 degree heat.

31/01/2025

It’s not very often that a boar of this size comes into the shop. Especially one shot by bow, but this huge Cape York boar is mounted as a wall pedestal mount with relief off the wall on one side, dropped leg and attitude.

11/01/2025

After some difficult stitching of the dorsal cut because of the antlers laid back and access from the side, I finally put this together on Friday after about 5hrs work. The heavy skin needs to be held in place until the glue sets up and keeps the detail etc. the inside of the mouth will be detailed and finished only when the skin is completely dry and hard. Until then he sits on my bench roaring at the roof each day!

11/01/2025

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being interviewed by our local Courier Mail about the full mount Boar in the Grand Hotel. A really good, informative and unbiased article about Taxidermy and feral animals, hopefully the public see this as the art form it is.

27/12/2024

Here’s a progress post of a huge NSW red stag I will be putting together in a couple of weeks time. As it was shot during the roar in April my client chose an open mouth mount in Pedestal form to fully display those antlers and replicate the roaring position they are so well known for.

30/11/2024

A few months ago I was commissioned to make a boar mount in 2 halves to be displayed in an historic Pub in Childers QLD. The front half will be separated by a wall to the back end, a lot of pig hunters visit the Grand Hotel on their way north so the mount will get a lot of attention and has been a talking point since it was first caught back in August. I will deliver it next Wed and apparently the local newspaper want to do a feature story for the pub.