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BlackRiver Taxidermy

Taxidermy, tanning, and wildlife artistry by Joel Swecker, owner/taxidermist. Striving to preserve a

07/02/2025

Awfully ironic for a young buck like this showing up in the driveway of a taxidermist business! He brought a friend too which isn’t in the photo.

Shop will be open tomorrow for a short amount of time in the late morning/early afternoon.
Everyone have a tremendous 4th of July weekend!!! Be safe and celebrate the holiday and what it truly means living in the greatest country in our world!

07/01/2025

Hand braiding some leather for antler plaque mounts. We use true elk leather tanned in a buckskin color for our antler plaques and then wrap the bases for a clean look against your choice of plaque. We do these in batches and today encompassed 1 very large moose, a caribou, 1 antelope, and 6 deer……I had a lot of braiding to do!

06/28/2025

Lots of mounts headed out the doors today. This is one of my favs!

This bull is our ‘packboard’ style mount which still shows off the headgear while cutting down on space with the help of these well made old-style packboard made by Comstock & Co.
The original style or real ‘Trapper Nelson’ pack frames are just simply too small for this type of mount. The crew over at Comstock made these elk/moose style packboard slightly bigger and reinforced all the while keeping the antique look through aged canvas and rust patina’d eye hooks and brass.

06/27/2025

Another tremendous mulie headed home today.

06/25/2025

Big Washington muley headed home today as one of the weeks standouts leaving out our doors. Thank you to the owner for the work.

06/21/2025

Rainy day whitetail finished up and headed out the door.

06/19/2025

Please show up if you can for the upcoming WDFW commissioners meeting!

06/17/2025

We’re busy…and we love it.
If I have called you about a mount, please come pick them up, we’re quickly running out of room on the finish wall.
If I haven’t called you yet, your project is still in-progress….please refrain from calling to ‘check in’ as it really slows us down, especially when we get 10-20 of those calls a day. Don’t worry….i will call you when your project is done.

06/10/2025

Hey all!!! For you bear hunters, MAKE SURE you are checking the regulations this year! There are a fair amount of changes to some units for the opening day (moved to the 15th vs. the 1st for some units) as well as harvest allocations (only 1 bear allowed in some units). Not trying to be the ‘reg police’ but in talking with a lot of clients coming in to pick up mounts I’m surprised how many are unaware there was changes made to some units. A few months away nonetheless for either the 1st or the 15th (GMU dependent) for Washington bruins! LEESSSS GO!

06/08/2025

These always make me smile and a real honor to get. Came in this morning following a customer pickup of his two bear mounts, a packboard mount and a skull/claw pedestal display. Thank you sir!

06/05/2025

Bears, bears, bears….
Lineup of bears for packboard and rugs drying and getting ready for their next steps.

Address

10504 173rd Avenue SW
Rochester, WA
98579

Telephone

+13607895056

Website

http://www.blackrivertaxidermy.com/

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