Skins & Scales Taxidermy

07/12/2024

A bongo antelope which belongs to the spiral horned species. This animal comes from the darkest deepest densest jungle in central africa. It is also home of the pygmy tribe, which are employed as the trackers and the skinners for the hunters who pursue this animal. These antelope weigh between 500-600 lb and a typical hunt for a bongo is about $50,000 and is normally for 14 to 18 days.

06/16/2024

This is becoming all too common in our industry. 95% of the problems plaguing our industry and the vast majority of other businesses in this country is coming straight out of Washington DC. The current administration has certainly sped up the downward spiral of the work ethic and work industry in our country. Anybody with half a brain realizes this cannot continue to go on and not expect catastrophic results. In years past we would get skins back from the Tanner in 6 to 8 months. Now we rarely get them back in less than a year because they are all struggling with a lack of employees. Meanwhile our government continues to print and spend money like there is no tomorrow, resulting in everything costing more. Everyone around the country that has a legitimate Taxidermy business, (and I don't mean some guy working out of his garage on weekends) is struggling to stay within a normal turnaround time getting work finished. Getting supplies from time to time is still an issue. Items that we used to order from our suppliers that would take three or four days are now taking 4 to 6 weeks, for the same reasons, a lack of employees. Washington could care less about the plight of American businesses.
Nothing they do in Washington affects them it all falls on us. Washington is fat dumb and happy and could care less. The government that we have now is what the founding fathers warned us about. There's really no difference between either political party. Trump says all of the right stuff but I don't know that one man can turn this country around there are just as many Republicans who are afraid of him as there are Democrats. In my opinion the only thing that is going to change this is when 10 million "real" Americans go to Washington with pitchforks and shovels.

05/31/2024

Coffee, tea or me.

04/28/2024

Just an example of what's going on at the shop everyday. I know it looks like a bomb went off in there but we do have a system. Thanks to all the dedicated talented team, Derek, Nicole #1, Nicole #2, Alexis #1, Alexis #2, Jason, Gib, Jorgan and Tommy who keep everything flowing everyday

03/27/2024

03/16/2024

This is an alligator diorama end table. We had to take the glass out to take the photos, because it caused a glare

03/05/2024

From time to time we have people bring in old beat up damaged fish and want us to repair them back to the original condition.

01/22/2024

The crocodile coffee table. The top photo is at the shop before it was crated to ship to South America. The bottom photo is set up in the customer's house in South America

01/18/2024

We are in the process of finishing up some turkeys. The shop took in almost 70 birds from this past gobbler season. We use the real heads on our mounts, the head has to be taken off the bird and they have to be sent to a freeze dry facility because the head is pretty much blood filled and if they're not freeze-dried they shrivel up, shrink and look terrible. Once we have the heads back they have to be put back on the turkey. These two pictures show what they look like when we get the heads back from the freeze dry company and then after all the color has been put back into them.