Need Taxidermist For Bear Rug

[lanceodom]

Ben Cromeens @ Tri-State in Houston did a great job w/ mine.

Me too. He did one for me and one for my son. Ben does majority of my stuff.

[jaker_cc]

I’m a loyal customer at Otten Brothers Taxidermy in Boerne. Great taxidermists and even better people.

[rladner]

I’m headed to Alberta at the end of the month if successful I’ll be in the same search.

What about North Texas Tannery? They have done several axis hides for me. Any one had them do a bear?

Yes, had him do a black bear hide for me. It wasn't a rug, but I didn't ask him to do a rug, just tan it. As normal with everything I've had done there it came out fine.

[PondPopper]

Hopefully they did a proper tan on it and not just a half azz flesh and salt job. Bears are greasy and can develop greasy soft spots after time that don't tan well and have to be repaired.

Yep. “Grease burn” will ruin a bear skin, or any skin from a fatty animal.
Most bear require a 3 step degreasing process, minimum, using an heavy duty degreaser. And sometimes I’ll run them through a 4th.

[Texas Made]

I used Damuth Taxidermy out of Brady for a bear shoulder mount and they did a really good job on a shoulder. One of the buddies I went with used Safari Studios for a rug and it turned out really good also.

[texaswildlifeta]

Texas wildlife taxidermy in stephenville

[Texans42]

Exactly. Last years bear was made into a rug. I’m bringing it home myself after this years hunt to avoid shipping charges.

I will not go bear hunting next year. I’m going back to Africa. I need a taxidermist in Texas pretty much anywhere here that does good work.

I fully understand there are lots of taxidermist in Texas. Some are better than others. Some do lots of deer shoulder mounts and few bears. I’m just asking if anyone had a bear rug made by a Texas taxidermist that they are happy with.

TNT taxi in Ingram, done 3 rugs and 2 hides. Taylor’s killed some big bears Himself. They all outsource the tanning

[slayr]

I used Rug-Be Bears out of Michigan for mine, based on a recommendation from a buddy that lived in Alaska and had several done. Was very happy with the finished product. It has been a few years, but between their work and shipping I still came out cheaper than I could’ve had it done locally.

I thought I had more pics, but here is only one I have.