This might sound like a dumb question, but I have a bunch of completed trophies in a storage unit in California that I want to ship to my home in Texas. Have any of you done this before? Any shipping/freight companies you guys would recommend? Seems fairly straight forward, but anything I need to know about shipping trophies? The mounts are in wood crates, secured with screws.

Call Alan Porter , he has several semis and all they do is hall taxidermy across the country. great guys and will do you a good job.

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I secured trophies in wooden crates from AK to VA to PA to FL to CA to SC. Never any damage using regular ol' run-of-the-mill military provided moving companies.

Jerry turned me onto Allen Porter and he just delivered my whole trophy room last week. He did an outstanding job at a reasonable price.

However, since you are already crated, I would think any trucking company should be able to handle it.

Jerry, thanks for the recommendation. Gave Alan a call and looks like he'll be doing the transport.

I never realized how big the taxidermy transport business was.

Ben Cromeens of Tri-State Taxidermy in Houston, Texas shipped my leopard to my home in Virginia a few weeks ago using UPS freight. The crate was delivered to my doorstep, and my leopard arrived in perfect condition.

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Originally posted by Jerry Huffaker:
Call Alan Porter , he has several semis and all they do is hall taxidermy across the country. great guys and will do you a good job.

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Thought I would follow up and say that Alan and his team picked up my animals last Friday in CA and delivered them a week later in Texas. Great guys to work with! I still have my African stuff being completed in CA, so I look forward to having them ship that stuff as well. Pretty amazing all the animals he had on the truck.