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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1185842" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>You live and learn and I must say I was soooo wrong a couple of years ago. I had a friend from the UK come over hunting and he killed a nice trophy he wanted to have mounted. He talked to his taxidermist and he said it would be best to have a taxidermist here tan the hide and clean the skull then he could put it on a form and mount it in the UK. This would save a lot of packaging and shipping problems.</p><p></p><p>With that in mind I carried the deer to a local taxidermist who has been doing this work for over 30 years. He was the best in the area but not cheap but cost wasn't a factor with this once in a lifetime deer mount. I got everything back and it smelled like a new car with leather. I then set out to ship it to him only to run into a gauntlet of bureaucracy. First of all, no one at any of the agencies you thought would have jurisdiction over this knew the proper way to do it nor the regulations involved. Same way on the other side of the pond. Finally I found a person with the Dept of Ag who was a vet and she would have to inspect the animal and give me a permit number once I got a permit number from the DHS in the UK. But they refused to give a permit number until I had one from the US. Little pizzing match I guess. I was in to this for six months now bottled up in their bureaucracy and I wasn't a happy camper. Finally the vet told me she would inspect it and give me a number needed by DHS and this way the process would begin but she would have to inspect it. I was shocked that she did not require me to send the deer to her for inspection. No ... all she needed was a check from me for $100 and once this cleared it was "inspected". Same with the UK but they wanted $150 for their inspection.</p><p></p><p>The Dept of Ag sent me a package that was best filled out by a scientist and I had to call to get some help in filling it out. Many of the pages were not applicable and I have no clue why they sent them to me with a letter stating I needed to fill them all out. It was frustrating, especially when I learn that the UK is requiring the taxidermist work be done by a European Union Certified Taxidermist. WTF! And no, my guy is not. But there was one in Texas and he said he would "re-do" everything for $400. I might not be the smartest fella in the world but I don't think there are but a few ways to tan a hide and do a skull mount and I'm pretty sure all taxidermists are doing it all about the same.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, this process was looking to total out at about $1200 for all the BS. I told him that they were acting like this deer had ebola. I see now I was wrong. Had it had ebola on I wouldn't have had to waste all my time trying to do things right, I could have just stuck it on a plane and shipped it ..... which we ended up doing anyway.</p><p></p><p>But to think they take a tanned deer hide so seriously yet they just want to allow anyone to fly from a plague region just doesn't make sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1185842, member: 4362"] You live and learn and I must say I was soooo wrong a couple of years ago. I had a friend from the UK come over hunting and he killed a nice trophy he wanted to have mounted. He talked to his taxidermist and he said it would be best to have a taxidermist here tan the hide and clean the skull then he could put it on a form and mount it in the UK. This would save a lot of packaging and shipping problems. With that in mind I carried the deer to a local taxidermist who has been doing this work for over 30 years. He was the best in the area but not cheap but cost wasn't a factor with this once in a lifetime deer mount. I got everything back and it smelled like a new car with leather. I then set out to ship it to him only to run into a gauntlet of bureaucracy. First of all, no one at any of the agencies you thought would have jurisdiction over this knew the proper way to do it nor the regulations involved. Same way on the other side of the pond. Finally I found a person with the Dept of Ag who was a vet and she would have to inspect the animal and give me a permit number once I got a permit number from the DHS in the UK. But they refused to give a permit number until I had one from the US. Little pizzing match I guess. I was in to this for six months now bottled up in their bureaucracy and I wasn't a happy camper. Finally the vet told me she would inspect it and give me a number needed by DHS and this way the process would begin but she would have to inspect it. I was shocked that she did not require me to send the deer to her for inspection. No ... all she needed was a check from me for $100 and once this cleared it was "inspected". Same with the UK but they wanted $150 for their inspection. The Dept of Ag sent me a package that was best filled out by a scientist and I had to call to get some help in filling it out. Many of the pages were not applicable and I have no clue why they sent them to me with a letter stating I needed to fill them all out. It was frustrating, especially when I learn that the UK is requiring the taxidermist work be done by a European Union Certified Taxidermist. WTF! And no, my guy is not. But there was one in Texas and he said he would "re-do" everything for $400. I might not be the smartest fella in the world but I don't think there are but a few ways to tan a hide and do a skull mount and I'm pretty sure all taxidermists are doing it all about the same. Anyhow, this process was looking to total out at about $1200 for all the BS. I told him that they were acting like this deer had ebola. I see now I was wrong. Had it had ebola on I wouldn't have had to waste all my time trying to do things right, I could have just stuck it on a plane and shipped it ..... which we ended up doing anyway. But to think they take a tanned deer hide so seriously yet they just want to allow anyone to fly from a plague region just doesn't make sense. [/QUOTE]
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