Eastern Bay Trout and Game Bird Taxidermy

18/09/2024

30/08/2024

25/08/2024

05/05/2024

You have all season to pick your bird to have it mounted. Choose a good specimen. Unless it's a rare bird that you'll never shoot again. Limit damage after the shot. Handle the bird by bill or feet and freeze asap. Package them properly. Some taxidermists will not mount freezer burnt birds, and also extremely shot up or birds brought in bloody and mangled. You are spending your hard earned money on a piece of art that you are going to look at the rest of your life, take 5 minutes to properly package it for the freezer. This means smoothing out the feathers, wiping off excess blood, wrapping soaking wet paper towels around the head making sure to cover the eyes and bill junction, and around both feet. Laying the head on the birds back, not under a wing, and putting it in a ziplock or plastic bag and rolling it up tight getting out as much air as possible. Great bird mounts start with great birds. Just a reminder on how to properly freeze your birds for taxidermy. Takes less than a minute.
Wrap the face and feet in wet paper towels, tuck the head, place in a ziploc, push the air out and freeze.
That alone will keep them mountable for years and years. The thicker the bag, the better. Can also double wrap.
Vac packing is good, don’t overdo it. Happy hunting.

02/04/2024

A very nice blonde to finish off the year with with. Anybody wanting a bird done with a fast turnaround time before the start of the New Gamebird Season contact me.

10/03/2024

Incoming, spoonie pair.

10/03/2024

A bit of fix up work for this duck. The repair work that taxidermists do.

22/01/2024

Hybrid mallard

22/01/2024

This young lady, like a grand daughter to us, recently visiting a ranch in Montana kindly sent me these muley(mule deer)antlers. Probably the result of a coyote or wolf kill or poaching? I fitted them to a fallow scull.

07/12/2023

A Scrub Bull from my friends Hunting Block. A bit sad to take the guy but will fill our freezer's with meat and a bit more grass for some of the deer.

22/10/2023

Banded blonde, what are the chances?

07/08/2023

Work in progress.

07/08/2023

Incoming/cupped wings

07/07/2023

A couple of x Breds ?? Both smaller than your average mallard.

07/07/2023

Arapawa Rams from Marlborough Sounds restored and on shields. Restored Red antlers taken in 1968, Tahora Station, near Matawai.

10/06/2023

Blondes. I asked F&G why we have mallards this color? Mallards will mate with anything that stands still for long enough.They are most probably ducks that somewhere along the line have had a bit of domestic cross breeding. NZ mallards are a motley bunch partly due to many are hybrids of Grey Duck and may have Peking duck in them. But I guess unless you are to assess their genome you will never know for sure.

11/11/2022

Sadly 29 Doc Huts now gone. All 5 on The Whakatane River, gone. Done 3 trips into The Upper Whakatane River with exceptional fishing. Going to be difficult now to do a multi-day trip with no huts.

08/10/2022

After months, finally, out to sea and blessed to land this beast on a softbait, C&R.

01/09/2022

A pleasure to mount these guys.