Calling all taxidermist: important questions

[Bulldog7906]

So my wife help me clean our first deer together. She really enjoyed it. She said she was excited and really enjoyed. She mentioned several times she used to skin animals in college and was graded on the neatness. She did a way cleaner and neater job than me!

She has declared that she may want to get into taxidermy and has been researching. We dropped the doe off at the market today to be processed. While inside she was picking up flyers from local taxidermy shops.

She wants to know how to get into it and how much it brings in. I am stoked on her interest and want to support her all the way.

Please send me what information you can how and where to began.

I would like to take her to some taxidermy shops and for her to see what happens behind the scenes. If you have a shop near the Schertz area, can we come by? I would also like to get a price list for when I get the monster!

Thanks,
Jared

[Texastaxi]

It's hard to find a shop that is willing to teach you because they know you will eventually become their competition.

There are a few taxidermy schools, but I haven't really seen great results from any of them compared to what they cost.

There are a ton of videos that would get her started.

[BTLowry]

It's hard to find a shop that is willing to teach you because they know you will eventually become their competition.

There are a few taxidermy schools, but I haven't really seen great results from any of them compared to what they cost.

There are a ton of videos that would get her started.

I thought most taxis did some kind of apprenticeship type thing to get their start?


Good luck to your wife if she decides that is what she wants to do

[txhighcaliber]

My dad just spent a few weeks in Snyder tx at a taxidermy school. He loved it and immediately opened up a small part time business for it when he completed the course.
Good luck to your wife.

[Bucky]

I'm going through the same thing. I have asked taxidermist to teach me and I will work for free. I only had one say come on. I'm learning on my own. I got some dvds and books and started doing it. Its trail and error but I'm getting more confident as I go. There a forum on taxidermy.net that you can ask all the questions you have.

[Texastaxi]

I'm going through the same thing. I have asked taxidermist to teach me and I will work for free. I only had one say come on. I'm learning on my own. I got some dvds and books and started doing it. Its trail and error but I'm getting more confident as I go. There a forum on taxidermy.net that you can ask all the questions you have.

IMO, you're on the right track.
Once you've got a few mounts under your belt, find out where the Texas Taxidermy Convention is (that year) and take a mount to be critiqued by a top notch taxidermist/judge, and don't get butt hurt when they hand your *** to you!

[mjhaverkamp]

I would think that if you approached a Taxidermist in another area that they would help you out, this way you would not be a direct competitor to them, good luck with it, I think it is cool that you will get your mounts for free.