Crate from Karoo Taxidermy just arrived from my trip to Huntershill this past April 2022.
Total cost of Taxidermy work for 3 Pedestal Mounts, 3 Euro Mounts, 3 full skins and 2 backskins $5000.
Total cost of shipping $3850 from South Africa to Oahu, HI. Included $2250 Badger Cargo for air freight on Turkish to Seattle, $1000 Coppersmith Seattle for clearing and one storage day and $600 to DHX for sea cargo from Seattle to Hawaii.
Badger Cargo and Coppersmith we both did a great job, communicated well and were great to work with.
My shipment through DHX was delayed one week, because their driver went to the wrong address to pick up my crate from Coppersmith warehouse. He was given the correct address, located 1 mile away, but instead went back to DHX and told them "it was already picked up". The crate had to be in received that day, to go out on the weekly sailing.
Karoo Taxidermy could do a better job responding to emails and communicating. I told them I didn't quite understand their chart for head position of mounts, and sent them pics of exactly what I wanted. The Kudu pic was even directly from their webpage. The Gemsbock and Kudu mounts were not the same positioning as what I'd sent in the pics, and different than I wanted.
Would have been helpful if they'd made final communication with me before stating work to make sure it was correct and then send out pics of final product before crating. Anyway, I'm still happy with the actual work and not much I can do to change it now!
Total cost of Taxidermy work for 3 Pedestal Mounts, 3 Euro Mounts, 3 full skins and 2 backskins $5000.
Total cost of shipping $3850 from South Africa to Oahu, HI. Included $2250 Badger Cargo for air freight on Turkish to Seattle, $1000 Coppersmith Seattle for clearing and one storage day and $600 to DHX for sea cargo from Seattle to Hawaii.
Badger Cargo and Coppersmith we both did a great job, communicated well and were great to work with.
My shipment through DHX was delayed one week, because their driver went to the wrong address to pick up my crate from Coppersmith warehouse. He was given the correct address, located 1 mile away, but instead went back to DHX and told them "it was already picked up". The crate had to be in received that day, to go out on the weekly sailing.
Karoo Taxidermy could do a better job responding to emails and communicating. I told them I didn't quite understand their chart for head position of mounts, and sent them pics of exactly what I wanted. The Kudu pic was even directly from their webpage. The Gemsbock and Kudu mounts were not the same positioning as what I'd sent in the pics, and different than I wanted.
Would have been helpful if they'd made final communication with me before stating work to make sure it was correct and then send out pics of final product before crating. Anyway, I'm still happy with the actual work and not much I can do to change it now!
