Planning in harvesting 5-7 plains game.

Kudu, oryx, impala, warthog, springbuck, fallow, blackbuck, Jackall

What the best way to ship crated boiled skulls and dipped/tanned hides to N.Texas

I hear plane is fastest, more expensive and by freight liner cheaper but was slower?

Talk to your taxi and get his input on what he prefers.

By air without a doubt, also the ones you are goig to mount saw off the skull that taxi will use instead of bleachig entire skull will save you up to $100 per animal at taxi shop doing the prep work to ship

When you going? We leave next month.

Make sure someone knows how to properly skin the jackal most come back and can't be mounted due to poor skinning and prep

Cody, congrats on going to Africa - you'll never forget the experience. But out of curiosity, why choose fallow and blackbuck in Africa? There are so many great inexpensive species over there and you find (on average) better and less expensive fallow and blackbuck right here in Texas.

I would consider bushbuck, hartebeest, wildebeest, blesbok, or even duiker or reedbuck, before fallow or blackbuck.

Sounds like a good question.

I was thinking the same thing, if you're going to go to Africa, take the local species, not any introduced ones (like BB). John Humbert's list looks good, I would also consider springbok if you're going to South Africa.

Is it suppose to say blackback jackal? I haven't ever heard of blackbuck hunting in SA. I have also heard to just cap the skulls if you are going to do a shoulder or lifesize mount rather than the whole skull. Either way good luck to you on the trip.

Most safari company's or PH will have a company that will do the dip and pack for you. You will need to decide on which custom broke you would like to use to broker your trophies through custom and forward the trophies to you.
Important to take plenty of laminated tag with you to attach to your hides and horns, business cards will work or your taxidermist. Or customs broker will supply with them, with all your and his info on them.
Remember they are your trophies and they will use whoever you decide. Pick a broker and they will walk you through the process

wwwCoppersmith.com Is one broker, there are plenty out there

I used Coppersmiths in 2012 for my animals and was pleased with the whole process. I also used a taxidermist in South Africa to do the mounts and was very pleased with the work, as well.

I am gonna pick mine up when they come and save the money

I had Lifeform do the mounts in Africa. OUTSTANDING work, and competively priced. Used Coppersmith to ship them back.
Be prepared for a wait, mine took over a year - the last 30 days sitting in a customs hanger in DFW.
I had them delivered direct to my door.
Packing was AWESOME!!

Our mounts and shipping cost about $10,000, or about a third of our safari. About a 1/3 for the trip, a 1/3 for animals, and a 1/3 for taxidermy and shipping.

You hear a lot of bad things about taxidermy in RSA, and some may be true - but most is BS. A company like Lifeform is world class, and they KNOW what the animals are supposed to look like and have more resources to draw on.

I would pay more to ship by air if it was my trophies... I did that with my 2013 safari and used coppersmith to clear the trophies in Dallas and had zero problems. Had them back in the states in 5-6 months and hoping to have them all done and mounted by the end of summer.

So it sounds like by air is the way to go!

I'm not able to mount em all at once or I would let them get mounted there

I'm am getting a smoking deal on the BB & Fallow so I'm game to harvest if the opportunity presents it's self

I have two outdoor tv shows looking at going to film the safari for a two episodes on the outdoor/pursuit channel to boot!

have a blast. don't no if you booked more than 6 days to hunt? the first time I went I hunted 10 days and was not enough. hunted 13 days the next time was much better. make shure you take extra money for trophy fees your list may grow quick. they are all beautiful animales. Forrest

8 days booked