Thompson River Taxidermy

Thompson River Taxidermy Est. 2022
Mammal Taxidermy and Services
Owner Sydney Davis

Final whitetail done from 2024 season! I strive to be around the year mark for turn around time and so far been pretty c...
12/09/2025

Final whitetail done from 2024 season! I strive to be around the year mark for turn around time and so far been pretty consistent!

Another whitetail going home today!---
11/30/2025

Another whitetail going home today!
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On the opposite end of the deer spectrum you’ll come across a deer that you could swear went to the barber every 6 weeks...
11/22/2025

On the opposite end of the deer spectrum you’ll come across a deer that you could swear went to the barber every 6 weeks, gorgeous either way!
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I have never had a tougher buck to mount, and it’s not in the ways you would think. The hardest part was grooming the hi...
11/22/2025

I have never had a tougher buck to mount, and it’s not in the ways you would think. The hardest part was grooming the hide! Every whitetail I’ve mounted has had some sort of scarring from fighting but nothing like this buck. All the scars on this one caused so much interruption of the hair pattern it looked as though it rolled around in a burr patch. After working on grooming for 5 hours I got it to this point, groomed enough to look pleasant but not too much to destroy the character of this warrior buck! (It also doesn’t hurt to remember he didn’t have a hairbrush when he was romping around the woods)
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Last mule buck done, on to the whitetails!---
09/25/2025

Last mule buck done, on to the whitetails!
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Nothing like a mature buck to start getting you excited for upcoming hunting season!---
08/08/2025

Nothing like a mature buck to start getting you excited for upcoming hunting season!
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Bear season is winding down (mostly cause the hides are starting to rub out with all this hot weather 🥵) but if you have...
05/28/2025

Bear season is winding down (mostly cause the hides are starting to rub out with all this hot weather 🥵) but if you have a bear in the freezer your not sure what to do with, bear rugs always are a good option! Thompson River Taxidermy will get it done and give you an awesome mount to bring back all the memories of your hunt!
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While an open mouth bear rug tends to be the most popular option, I was super excited to see a closed mouth bear rug com...
05/16/2025

While an open mouth bear rug tends to be the most popular option, I was super excited to see a closed mouth bear rug come across my to-do and it came out beautifully.
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Thank you to everybody who has trusted me with their European mounts this last season! As I wrap up the last batch of sk...
04/02/2025

Thank you to everybody who has trusted me with their European mounts this last season! As I wrap up the last batch of skulls I now know how long it will take (as this was my first year working with beetles through a colleague) I appreciate everybody’s patience as I’m working out the kinks so next year timeline should be getting your skull back within 6 months as long as work load isn’t larger but I won’t mind if it does get bigger ;) again, thank you for your business fellow hunters!
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Couple buck euros all done---
01/08/2025

Couple buck euros all done
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This mountain lion finally made it to its new home across the states! Doing work for a fellow taxidermist can be pretty ...
01/07/2025

This mountain lion finally made it to its new home across the states! Doing work for a fellow taxidermist can be pretty daunting but everything came out beautifully, excited to see the base and habitat he puts with it!
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Symmetry is something I focus on while working and something about this whitetails antlers were just bugging me this tim...
11/21/2024

Symmetry is something I focus on while working and something about this whitetails antlers were just bugging me this time, when cleaning the skull plate, I noticed below the right antler there was an old gouge, probably from fighting, but didn’t think anything of it; you’d be surprised the amount of injuries I find while preparing the deer to be mounted (especially whitetails). Once I started putting everything together I just figured I screwed the horns on crooked so I checked and rechecked and triple checked and checked again! Getting frustrated I finally realized that the injury was more important than I thought. It had caused that right horn to grow more straight up, instead of following the natural slope of his head, causing that side to look larger (didn’t help that the tines on that side were naturally longer too). I set the horns up and mocked up the hide on the form and it fit perfectly with the antler holes in the hide. At that point I just put my perfectionism aside and started sewing. As aesthetic as a symmetrical deer is, that is not always the case and you gotta embrace the imperfect beauty of the animal 🦌🧡.

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Thompson Falls, MT
59873

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+14068308001

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