First of all I am new to the forum, I have been looking at it for a couple of years, but only just signed up.
Together with my husband, we usually go on a big hunting trip once a year abroad, destinations have included SA, Bulgaria as well as Argentina.
My husband is a gamekeeper here in UK, I work along side him.
I am looking for advice concerning importing Argentinian trophies. We visited Argentina in 2014, had a good time shooting doves through to water buffalo. The hunting was good, the outfitter was not as good (somebody I may warn you about in the near future) It has been a very long drawn out process trying to get trophies home. The native species I shot were smuggled out. I was never told that they weren't exportable, just explained that they may take a little longer. Therefore I only a peccary skin, no tusks or skull, and a horrific skin of a puma I wanted for full mount, missing the skull and shrunk to the size of a domestic cat. We have asked for a blackbuck, axis and water buffalo, just cape, skull and horns to be dipped and packed and sent to UK
After almost two years later and a lot of money spent on the services of the export company, they have arrived at Heathrow for only the paperwork to have a mistake, therefor they will not release them and they may get destroyed. This is after numerous attempts of exporting them out of Argentina, always failing due to paperwork errors. The company were made aware of the mistakes before shipping, but still proceeded. At moment they are sitting at Heathrow being charged for storage. The taxidermy company has not yet replied to emails asking for correct paperwork.
My question to the more experienced hunters, is what should my next step be? Have you had similar experiences.
Many thanks for any help.
Together with my husband, we usually go on a big hunting trip once a year abroad, destinations have included SA, Bulgaria as well as Argentina.
My husband is a gamekeeper here in UK, I work along side him.
I am looking for advice concerning importing Argentinian trophies. We visited Argentina in 2014, had a good time shooting doves through to water buffalo. The hunting was good, the outfitter was not as good (somebody I may warn you about in the near future) It has been a very long drawn out process trying to get trophies home. The native species I shot were smuggled out. I was never told that they weren't exportable, just explained that they may take a little longer. Therefore I only a peccary skin, no tusks or skull, and a horrific skin of a puma I wanted for full mount, missing the skull and shrunk to the size of a domestic cat. We have asked for a blackbuck, axis and water buffalo, just cape, skull and horns to be dipped and packed and sent to UK
After almost two years later and a lot of money spent on the services of the export company, they have arrived at Heathrow for only the paperwork to have a mistake, therefor they will not release them and they may get destroyed. This is after numerous attempts of exporting them out of Argentina, always failing due to paperwork errors. The company were made aware of the mistakes before shipping, but still proceeded. At moment they are sitting at Heathrow being charged for storage. The taxidermy company has not yet replied to emails asking for correct paperwork.
My question to the more experienced hunters, is what should my next step be? Have you had similar experiences.
Many thanks for any help.