Leaving for Slovakia this week for a mouflon hunt. Can anyone recommend any quality taxidermists in Europe. Importing horns, skulls, and capes into Canada has become a nightmare!

I can recommend either the Garoz brothers in spain www.garoz.com
or in England Colin Dunton. Colin has done a lot of my work and is superb. www.colinduntontaxidermy.com

In England. I would highly recommend Phillip Legett. he is a master craftsman and his work is as good as many of the best in the states. Be vey careful in choosing a taxidermist in Europe...they focus mainly on Euro mounts and can not even come close to what we have in the US.

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Be vey careful in choosing a taxidermist in Europe...they focus mainly on Euro mounts and can not even come close to what we have in the US.

This is only partly true. In Europe are some of the best Taxidermy companys. Wolfgang Schenk, Karl Matt and Helmut Raith in Vienna are well known for there very high Standard.

There are always exceptions...but you just can not compare the experience, access to materials, and forms to what you get in the US. The craftsmanship here is so competitive that it just creates better real life museum quality specimens.

...but you just can not compare the experience, access to materials, and forms to what you get in the US. well the europians also have a lot of wery good taxidermist wish inport all the forms or produce them demself!!! quality is as high here as in us and some of the top taxidermists are in the states winning priceses and compitisjons also!Scandinavia and espessielly Norway and Denmark hev some Extreme good taxidermist working there....

This is an age old battle ow "mine's bigger than yours". With ANY taxidermy work, individuals have to be judged individually. If I want silk, I go to Japan or China or the export centers in Asia. If I want lead crystal, I go to Europe. In America, taxidermy is a "cottage industry" (us old timers call it "ceramics with hair". It has pushed the envelope in America simply because the poorest citizen is still allowed to have a gun and can go out and take an animal on his own property. The "Old World" still carries that stigma of it being an aristocrat's sport. Studios there can dictate a lot that happens to the industry there. That ideal has a very long road to progress before it can meet the American models of free enterprise. But THAT has nothing to do with the question and the circumstances here. If BC has made his mind up as to what HE wants to do, he only needs a contact point in that decision. The works worth will be determined by HIS STANDARDS, not ours.