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Just a word to those who are planning their first safari, or who like me had a brain fart and failed to specify. DO NOT SEND, OR LET BE SENT, ANY TROPHIES TO DENVER CO. A couple thousand dollars and 2 months later my last Tanzania trophies are finally leaving Co. Denver is not a USFWS approved airport. Hence they have no idea how to clear trophies. It required a visit from mt taxidermist, the trophies came to the airport in Denver on British Airways, cleared sent onto Salt Lake by BA, suddenly not cleared, sent back to Denver, BA fined by USFW, stored in bonded wharehouse, were picked up, taken to another local taxidermist shop, inspected by USFW, recrated, shipped back to the airport, held to be shipped to my taxidermist. With everyone along the way wanting paid. Be sure your trophies come into an approved airport. A call to the shipping company in an attempt to reduce cost ended up with me listening to why it cost so much. I finally told them they forgot a charge. He asked me for what and I told him for the vasiline................................JJ " venator ferae bestiae et aquae vitae " | ||
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Apparently they didn't charge you for something they didn't use.  All I can say is, "Dude, that totally sucks." If you are going to carry a big stick, you've got to whack someone with it at least every once in while. | |||
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Am I reading this correctly that you intended to clear your own trophies as some on here suggest? | |||
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That's why I use Fauna and Flora. Just today I received notice from RSA our trophies were ready to ship. I could pay with c/c or wire transfer. I made a call to F&F and spoke with John Meehan. John deals with the company in RSA and told me to email them and ship collect to F&F. I'll send a check to F&F for everything and won't worry about sending my c/c info INCLUDING photo copies of the front and back of my card and paying a 5% fee for using a credit card. Anytime questions, concerns or problems have arisen, all I had to do is call John and he took care of it. If we had a local port of entry I would clear trophies myself, but we no longer have that option locally, so I defer to F&F. Sorry to hear about the problems and expense JJ but I know everyone appreciates the heads up. Looks like BA is where the problem started. Maybe we should start our own Hunters Association and only use shippers, expediters, Taxidermists/dip-pack facilities that don't try to over charge or rip us off. Word of mouth is our best defense. Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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They didn't miss anything.... sounds like they didn't use vasiline. | |||
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Oh no, I wasn't trying to clear my own trophies. I just assumed the PH/Outfitter would know not to send the trophies to an airport not approved by USFW. Its my fault for not telling the PH before I left camp where NOT to send the trophies. My taxidermist is in UT, the personal on the ground in TZ looked at a map, saw Denver was the closest major airport to the taxidermist and sent them there. BIG mistake..........JJ " venator ferae bestiae et aquae vitae " | |||
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Something I learned is before paying for the shipment of your trophies have the taxidermist/airline fax you a copy of the airbill before hand. DO thisbefore you pay them. You may have to be firm but in the end they will. This allows you to catch any mistakes ahead of time, make sure the name and airport are correct, and give you written proof of where stuff was suppose to go in case it doesn't. The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense | |||
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Hmmmm, could this possibly be what's behind the PH being arrested in Harrisburg (PA) several weeks ago aledgedly over a leopard imported through Denver??? An old man sleeps with his conscience, a young man sleeps with his dreams. | |||
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JJ who had you made arrangement with to clear the trophies? This info should have been provided to the Outfitter. This seems like a shared screw up. | |||
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DOJ, I tagged the trophies before I left. But I failed to instruct them to have them sent to San.Fran. CA. I never thought they would have sent them to a non-approved airport. Next time I'll be sure to specify.................JJ " venator ferae bestiae et aquae vitae " | |||
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