Summit Taxidermy - Owner Mike Lingsch

Summit Taxidermy - Owner Mike Lingsch Local taxidermist with over 35 years of experience keeping your trophies alive.

Summit is a full time taxidermy studio providing my clients with premium quality work at affordable prices along with an excellent turnaround. I pride myself in providing excellent customer service and working with my clients to achieve the clients vision of their game trophy. Summit is able to accommodate any trophy including your North American, African, and exotic game.

02/19/2026

Video of the finished warthogs and Cape Buffalo together.

The warthogs painted before and after.
02/19/2026

The warthogs painted before and after.

African pig project.
02/16/2026

African pig project.

02/16/2026

Warthog project. Painting the African piggies.

02/10/2026

Buffalo finished.

Buffalo is finished. Congratulations Steve Otto on harvesting such a magnificent animal.
02/10/2026

Buffalo is finished. Congratulations Steve Otto on harvesting such a magnificent animal.

02/09/2026

Finishing CAPE BUFFALO!!

02/07/2026

Baboon finished.

02/07/2026

Historic Deer Hunting Totals đź“Š
🦌 The 232,142 deer bagged in 2025-26 is Ohio’s seventh largest total.
⏺️ The highest season totals:
🔹 2009-10: 260,442
🔹2008-09: 251,299
🔹2010-11: 238,683
🔹2024-25: 238,137
🔹2006-07: 236,676
🔹2007-08: 232,212
🔹2025-26: 232,142

02/06/2026

Will this harsh winter lead to lower ticks next year?
It feels like it should. Weeks of sub-zero temps, frozen fingers, frozen trucks, frozen everything, surely that has to wipe out deer ticks, right? Most ticks don’t spend winter exposed to the air. They tuck themselves into leaf litter, soil cracks, and under snow, where temperatures are way more stable than whatever your weather app says. Cold can kill ticks if they’re exposed, but many aren’t. In fact, steady snow can actually insulate them, and harsh winters don’t translate to fewer ticks the following spring.

What really hurts tick populations isn’t “how cold it got,” but things like lack of snow cover, repeated freeze-thaw cycles, dry summers, and fewer hosts. Ticks are slow, persistent, and annoyingly well adapted. Their life cycle stretches over about two years, which means one bad winter rarely “resets” anything. So if you were hoping that all the suffering you’re doing during this brutal cold snap would at least spare you from Lyme disease come spring, sorry. That’s not how it works. The ticks will be back, and they’ll be just as bad as ever.

— Stephen Ziegler
Outdoor writer | Owner, DeLong Lures

02/05/2026

More work on the rock.

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1150 N Weaver Road Oxford
Hamilton, OH
45056

Telephone

+15132071806

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