10/21/2025
I want to thank all my great clients for their patience, allowing me to be with my family when needed over the past three years. We thought we were out of the woods on the cancer front during the 2023 season, and opened up to new clients that year and started doing our own tanning (tons of additional work) and many new clients that year. So when Kinslee’s cancer recurred months later we were sitting on a ton of work, tanning and mounting. For those new and old clients of 2023 all of those deer and a handful from last season will be ready by opening weekend of gun season this year. I know there are nearby taxidermists with 2 year turnarounds but we are going to get back to a year or less with the deer coming in this year, 2025.
For my 2024 clients I have all of your capes tanned, after finding one of the best tanneries in the nation does green cape service, and the capes are amazing. So from now on, I'm out of the tanning business and focusing on taxidermy for the remaining time I'm in the business. The current goal is to have all of those deer mounted and home to you by May. And this year's, 2025 deer, close to or completed by November 2026. In order to achieve that I will only be taking existing clients again, so if you've ever brought anything to be mounted by us you're in! The only new clients would be immediate family members, kids or grandkids of existing clients. It pains me to turn people away, but I feel I have to be loyal to those that have been loyal to me and still try to get some free time, that I haven't had in three years, back into my schedule. After three years of not bowhunting my farm, or planting a single food plot in that time, I plan to have my work caught up and be back in the woods myself in 2026!
Thanks again for being so patient, Kinslee is doing great, in the past month we have slowed down on trips to the hospital in St Louis and don't go back again until mid December. Most of the year we have been averaging two or more multi day trips a month. Good luck to all of our returning clients and I hope you have a successful and rewarding season, we already have 14 jobs for the new year and we expect a great hunting year locally.
Thank you,
Doug
