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Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/09/13 12:00 PM
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raydogg30
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Hey everyone, I'm new to the forum, mainly because I guess I need some advise (Surprise surprise, right?) Anyway, this year I killed the biggest buck of my life and first whitetail in one. I dropped my buck off at a local taxidermy shop (I have since moved about 2 hours away from the town) but still, a local dude. I called him yesterday, since it was my 5 month mark from dropping it off, to see if he had started it yet, and what the status was, and he tells me that he "lost his building" and that he "trusted some guys he shouldn't have and they helped themselves to meat and horns". This is officially my worst sportsman's nightmare, I'm wondering what anyone has to say about this? He even went as far as to tell me that I'd have to take him to small claims court to recollect my $225 that I paid when dropping the horns/mount off. I'm at a loss, this is the stuff you hear about from horror stories, not the buck of my lifetime! Any help would be appreciated, point me in the right direction! Thank you in advance.
-Ray
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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Who is the taxidermist, name and city where located? Maybe some one else has used him or knows of him and can help. It might also help to make sure no one else tries to use him again in the future. My suggestions is a FTF at his front door, I would by pass small claims court.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/09/13 08:25 PM
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Please tell me it wasn't Logan Garnder !!!????
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
[Re: bu2herndog]
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05/09/13 10:28 PM
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Rob Hallenbeck-Hill Country Deer Processing and Taxidermy. Fredericksburg, TX.
Now as far as small claims court, I've never been, where do I start, what do I do? Thank you for the replies.
He just text me "could not find antlers"
-Ray
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/10/13 02:41 AM
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If he won't give your money back, go to the court house and file on him. I don't know what it will cost- maybe $50. You have to fill out names and why your suing. I'd throw in something for loosing your horns, maybe the cost of the hunt. Good luck
I'd ask him if he's pregnant. He missed a s__tload of periods. I'll take "things that look like a uterus" for $200 Alex.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/10/13 08:30 PM
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I hunt in Fredericksburg and have seen that place before. I hope you get something worked out with this guy. Sorry to hear this!
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/10/13 08:34 PM
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Hope you got a picture. If you got the time and cash id take him to court just to be a arse but that's just me.... actualy I know what I would do but will not advise on here.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/13/13 06:00 AM
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I have quite a few pics of him actually, before and after. I also have the money to take this guy to court, unfortunately, all I want is my damn antlers back, being that this is the biggest buck I've ever killed, and my first ever whitetail. This guy is so irresponsible, it astounds me, what a great show he put on when I was dropping off my trophy though. (#(*#R(*#@JR#JUR#@)U#@(U
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/13/13 01:33 PM
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Great deer.
Situations like yours have happened to many more people than you think, including myself. I learned from it and from now on will never allow anything other than a professional, full-time, shop operating, well known, and reliable taxidermist do work for me.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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Great deer.
Situations like yours have happened to many more people than you think, including myself. I learned from it and from now on will never allow anything other than a professional, full-time, shop operating, well known, and reliable taxidermist do work for me. X2 do your homework.
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I have a jerk here in Odessa that can't seem to get a oryx hide tanned after over 1 year! He flaunts his certificates and crap and always has work going on but can't get a simple tan job delivered!? Cowboy Chris Taxidermy is POS in my book!
Brayden (Lazy L's Southern Comfort) you will be missed! You were more than a pet you were my reason to rise and return for many days! You were my rock! 12/26/03-10/25/13
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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That's truly sad, Great Deer.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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i used him for my first deer also, i just got an antler mount, but even though it took him like a year and two months we got that, our shoulder mount black buck and a European mount sitka back and we weren't impressed long story short i never would expect him to do that, we had a taxidermist here in Nevada do that and he got so many death threats and what not that its not funny. our experiences with other taxidermists ended after that hunt because we decided to give it a try and six years later we are now the fourth largest taxidermy shop in Nevada. taxidermy is a cut throat business.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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not real sure,but you may also be able to file a lein on him and/or business, and if his original business may have include a family member on documents, include them, that might get some attention at some point, court house. just a thought no advice.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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Thank you for the replies. I'll be driving out there in about 4 days to figure everything out. I contacted the local game warden there and he hates the guy, he said he'd love to go out there with me and figure what happened out, and he said he'd phone the local Sheriff's office so we can get a deputy on scene. I'll let you know how it all turns out. Thanks again everyone. -Ray
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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I have a jerk here in Odessa that can't seem to get a oryx hide tanned after over 1 year! He flaunts his certificates and crap and always has work going on but can't get a simple tan job delivered!? Cowboy Chris Taxidermy is POS in my book! Bummer. Brosig's here in Mid/OD does some VERY nice work. Go there next time!
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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05/21/13 07:13 PM
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Sue him for the price of a replica set of antlers. If you have lots of pictures and possibly the measurements, replicas can be made of the antlers and mounted on a form using another cape. Might not be exactly the same, but better than just letting him get away with it.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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Sucks man. That's a good deer too.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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That sucks man! My bet is he sold the horns, hope the gamewarden will hang a fat one in his a$$!! Hope im wrong. Good luck man hate that that hapened to ya!
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Sad to hear. Good luck nailing the DB
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05/27/13 06:03 AM
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Man, that is terrible.... Sorry to hear about this bad experience.
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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Thank you for the replies. I'll be driving out there in about 4 days to figure everything out. I contacted the local game warden there and he hates the guy, he said he'd love to go out there with me and figure what happened out, and he said he'd phone the local Sheriff's office so we can get a deputy on scene. I'll let you know how it all turns out. Thanks again everyone. -Ray
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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Thank you for the replies. I'll be driving out there in about 4 days to figure everything out. I contacted the local game warden there and he hates the guy, he said he'd love to go out there with me and figure what happened out, and he said he'd phone the local Sheriff's office so we can get a deputy on scene. I'll let you know how it all turns out. Thanks again everyone. -Ray You beat me to it. I was gonna say, call the GW. That'll get the ball rolling. This happens way to much at a lot of taxi's. For the life of me, I can't understand why these folks can't get more organized. I know there's some good ones out there so I don't mean to lump them all into one category but it just seems like some of the folks couldn't keep books on a snow cone stand.
"A hunt based only on trophies taken, falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be." -Fred Bear
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Re: Taxidermist "may have lost my horns/cape"!!!! ???
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dang that sucks, very nice deer. Since the warden hates him so much maybe he could help you out and sue him for the price of the hunt as well.
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