New Zealand in May

[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.   

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.