‘Tis the Season for Trophy Birds

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Picked up this gorgeous bufflehead this morning after putting in some work. Anyone else having some luck?
 


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Interesting you don't see them much. Late late in the year on any open water you can find there are usually a handful with the mallards. They only get prettier by the time January comes around! Nice bird, hope the taxidermist does it justice!
 


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Thats the plan right now. Looking into a taxidermist that can do the bird justice. I don’t run into these every day.
There is only one guy I would send it to. He was the world champion waterfowl taxidermist back in the 80's. He did a wood duck for me about 28 years ago and the thing still looks as good today as it did when he did it. He was very inexpensive then and I would guess still is compared to anybody else. He is in southern MN and you can box it up and ship it.
http://www.northstartaxidermy.com/
 

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There is only one guy I would send it to. He was the world champion waterfowl taxidermist back in the 80's. He did a wood duck for me about 28 years ago and the thing still looks as good today as it did when he did it. He was very inexpensive then and I would guess still is compared to anybody else. He is in southern MN and you can box it up and ship it.
http://www.northstartaxidermy.com/

Shipping makes me nervous but his gallery does have nice work in it. Thank you for the suggestion.
 

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Birmanstudios.com has always treated me well. He might be backed up by now though. Worth a check and definitely does good work. We ended up shooting some good looking scaup, redhead, ringneck, and bufflehead. Could have shot a lot more scaup but don’t need another for the wall. We missed a couple goldeneye as well
 

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We mostly shot scaup/bluebills today too but I treat them as meat birds.
 


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That’s a really nice one!

Sportsman’s Taxidermy in EGF is where I would go. His birds are very good.
 

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They make a gorgeous mount.. shot one when I was younger, dad had it mounted for me.. and my sisters cat shredded the mount. I hate cats still to this day
 
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Check out Frenchy in Minot. I've never had a bad bird from him and he did 3 buffleheads together for me and they're beautiful.
 

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Haultberg in coleharbor did a speckelebelly for me last year did great job reasonably priced and fast turn around
 

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You guys are killing me. 6 suggestions given without a single double. How’s a guy to pick?
 

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I’d say rough rider game birds but prob 2 to infinity year turnaround. He did an amazing job on my bufflehead. I would look at these guys past bird work to make sure the poses look natural. I have seen a lot of messed up mounts by recommended taxidermists
 


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