Last year in June I shot an albino Scimitar Oryx. Recieved a box in the mail today. Was much lighter than I was expecting. Retrieved the shoulder mount a couple weeks ago and it looks ok.
The hide I got today looks like SHIT!

There is white paint all through the hide!!

The hair is falling out left and right.

The tail doesn't look like the one from my animal.

Whats left of the hide measures 40"x20"(the 20" measurement is from the base of the tail forward). I know hides shrink some, but this just doesn't seem right.

I have never seen such poor work.

So your point is? Have you talked to whoever handled the hide before you posted this? It is bad and your mad but what have you found out?

The white your seeing may be the dried bleaching paste left on the hair, paint no, unless whoever tanned the hide has no idea what their doing. Either way unexceptable not delivering a clean end product. I am guessing the hide you recieved was the back half from your mount. Its better to have enough cape or excess to fit the form you choose for the mount. What was needed to fill out your flat was cut off the overhang on your mount. If the form was a wall pedistal, a lot of the cape is needed, almost half of the animal, so 20" sounds about right. Hair falling out, not right.

Paul, Why would bleaching paste be necessary in an ALBINO hide!!??????!!

Makes no sense to take 2/3 of a hide to do a shoulder mount. How is it I have had gorgeous shoulder mounts done in the past with the hide cut behind the front shoulder? Two taxidermist in town I have taken other work to flat out stated I should have gotten at least 26 more inches of length than what I got back.

The artisan in question has asked for pictures which I have provided and I have heard nothing so far.

Perhaps I should have gone with a lifesize mount. Then there would be no excuse for 1/3 of the hide to mysteriously disappear!

bleaching white or albino hides is pretty common, being that white hides get dirty and stain easily. Most dall sheep capes and lifesizes are "bleached" to clean up blood, dirt, iron from water, or whatever. It's kind of up to the customer to decide how white they want their mount. Some people prefer a pure whitee dall mount, others like their natural "dirty" look.... If it is bleaching powder, I'd wash it out quickly as it is acidic and can eat the hair and cause it to "burn" or fall out if left on too long, which sounds like may already be happening. As for how much hide you got back, I would guess he estimated how much cape he needed and cut it before he mounted it, rehydrated the cape and mounted it and still had a bunch left over which was trimmed off and thrown out....

Do you have any trophy pics you could share? I would like to see an albino.

My answer is the only logical answer and RJR answered your rebutal question.

The taxidermist is Dean McClary of Cowboys & Indians and Things They Shoot, in Edinburg,Texas.

It has taken a while to post again because I thought things were being worked out. They have not. I have been sent another hide of worse quality than the first. I am currently waiting for results from a lab in FtWorth,Tx as to the relationship of the shoulder mount to the hides I was sent. They specialize in DNA recovery.

Working on pictures. The eyes are all wrong on the mount too. I haven't told the land owner yet, but I suspect word has/will get to them soon enough.

The field picture is my main picture on Facebook where I am known as Andy Babin.

You sent pieces of each hide to a DNA specialist for analysis to make sure you got the correct hide???? You must own the DNA lab? If not, did you ask how much it cost to do DNA of the hair pieces? I can only guess that your thinking of a major lawsuit because you didn't get the correct backhide. Am I reading this correctly?
I would love to see you post a picture of the mount and backhide on this site.
Thanks