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| WAcoyotehunter:
shoot the animals early in the trip to leave time to flesh and salt your capes and get the skulls cleaned up. I would 100% recommend flying back with your animals as checked baggage. |
| Torrent50:
I used Coppersmith in Seattle as my importer. They seemed to know the taxidermist in New Zealand who prepped my capes and antlers. The taxidermist made a crate for everything and shipped it over. I used Tyron Southward Taxidermy in Christchurch. Jennifer House is who I dealt with at Coppersmith. She was awesome to deal with and made it easy. I will say that it ended up costing more than I anticipated to get everything back, but it all made it without trouble. |
| RatRodMike:
Thank you for all the great info guys. :tup: I'm a bit wiser now and hopefully I'll be bringing back some cool critters. Will post pics for sure. Thanks again |
| JBG:
NZ is awesome. Stuff down there is super cheap compared to what we pay here. For instance a coffee that costs $5 here is about $1.50 down there, go figure. |
| bearpaw:
--- Quote from: Torrent50 on March 24, 2026, 02:50:58 PM ---I used Coppersmith in Seattle as my importer. They seemed to know the taxidermist in New Zealand who prepped my capes and antlers. The taxidermist made a crate for everything and shipped it over. I used Tyron Southward Taxidermy in Christchurch. Jennifer House is who I dealt with at Coppersmith. She was awesome to deal with and made it easy. I will say that it ended up costing more than I anticipated to get everything back, but it all made it without trouble. --- End quote --- I have used Coppersmiths to send cats to client's taxidermists in Europe, they were very easy to deal with and knew what they were doing. |
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