Can I carry home skins from a previous hunt?

[Grouser]

I have three completely tanned skins sitting in Windhoek from a management hunt last July. I totally choked at the cost of having these 'trophies' shipped back to me in the states.

If I do another management hunt next year, can I bring home the tanned skins from this year. I seems this would be the same as buying a skin at the airport and packing it home.

 

[Hunt anything]

I think you can, I brought home a blue wildebeest, blesbok and mountain reedbuck tanned skins from 2018, I had the paperwork with me and the customs guy in Atlanta asked about it but never looked at it.

 

[Ryan]

In general it shouldn't be an issue. If they're tanned Customs-Ag should be cool with them. The next is USFWS. Do you have license paperwork for them if they ask. And if anything is CITES, you'll need that paperwork. the most common one out of Namibia is mountain zebra.

 

[Grouser]

Thanks for the response, Ryan.
Actually, yes, one is a Hartmann's Zebra. I am sure all of the required paperwork is available (since they were going to ship them to me), I just really would like some kind of paperwork check list so I don't lose them along the way home. I understand some of the CITES paperwork is dated....??

 

[Ryan]

I went looking and got the phone number for the USFWS office in Atlanta, where you'd mostly come through.
404-763-7959. Give them a ring and they should be able to make sure you have things lined up.

 

[Grouser]

Super! Last time I came back through Newark, but six of one, half dozen of the other. : )