I picked up the 2009 deer yesterday. I drove to SC and back from E. Central FL. It was one of three things in Union that I needed to retrieve, so the trip was not necessarily for the deer head alone. I had sent the money for the final taxidermy payment in late January 2011 to a friend there who picked up the deer from American Outdoorsmen in Laurens, SC.
The only criticisms I have are the eyes used were not the coal black ones as are my other mounts from other taxidermists (I had not thought to ask for coal black eyes), but are the multi-colored brown with black slit colored and the skin just below each eye is torn from drying within the cape after it was mounted. There is about a 3/16" long by 1/64" wide crack under each eye, that with just the right dab of paint in the correct color should make them disappear completely. Otherwise, it looks to be a well prepared cape and mount. I had asked for wet tanning. The hide seems, to this unaided eye, to be well prepared but that doesn't mean that I would know whether it was, in fact, wet tanned.
