Shoulder mount time frame?

[jackelope]

Average reasonable taxi wait should be around 12-16 months. Anybody waiting for 2 years turnaround should be expecting a competition level finish or fire their taxidermist! There are plenty of acceptable level taxidermist around that we should never wait 2 years. 
  For any taxis that question this IMO you either overbooked or need to get off the phone and get to work..

I guess I'm not out there shopping for a mediocre job. If I can get the best of the best and it takes longer, then so be it. Now if the guy/gal told me it was going to be 24 months and it took 4+ years I'd freak out.
Under-promise and over-deliver. Key words in the customer service bizz.

[jburkett]

 

[actionshooter]

I think the better the taxi, the longer the wait, I'm good with that. Its artwork you will own for the rest of your life.

[JDHasty]

Two years and my lack of any anxiety is worth the wait.  I guess I just am not so concerned with the wait as I am in getting exactly what I want back.  If I were woried the entire time it might have an effect on my patience, but I don't have a concern in the world.  I really am not all that bothered about traveling to drop off/pickup either.

[n_mathews13]

I think the better the taxi, the longer the wait, I'm good with that. Its artwork you will own for the rest of your life.

Well said. I had a taxi do a few jobs for me, didn't take long but was not done well. Taxidermist needs to have a little artistic skill, he didn't seam to have much. I have a bear that is at a taxi right now, it's been awhile, but I'm hopeing to have a nice mount when done

[jackelope]

I think you'll find that most of the taxidermists that are/were advertising on here currently and back in the early days of Hunt-WA take longer than 12-14 months, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find better work.

[JDHasty]

I think you'll find that most of the taxidermists that are/were advertising on here currently and back in the early days of Hunt-WA take longer than 12-14 months, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find better work.

You got that right!