ReedTX
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In November 2019 my wife killed a real nice Axis buck at her dads ranch. It was high fence, and I understand the hate for high fence, but this is the only land we had access too. Not much public land in Texas.
We called around for a taxidermist and found one a 2hr drive away who had great reviews, sounded great on the phone and at the time I spent a lot of time in the area for work so it made sense. My wife dropped the deer off and said the store and the taxidermist was very professional, the weird thing is he insisted on no deposit. This was the first deer we had took to a taxidermist so at the time we thought this was OK and proceeded, he took note of the license/ID and took possession of the caped deer head
In Summer 2020 I emailed and was told that with covid things were really slow. I emailed again in January 2021, just over a year from when we first dropped the deer off, we got a reply a week later saying he was awaiting on the tannery and that he will begin working on it as soon as he can. I said I would reach back out to him around Easter 2021. Since January 2021 I have heard nothing, I have emailed, called and text. I have tried calling from different numbers but no answer. I call every couple of months but nothing....
I called the game warden for advice in September 2021 and she said she had multiple complaints about this taxidermist ghosting people and that she would call him. Later that day she called to say that he is working on the deer and it will be ready when it is ready. She said that she could not do anything and that the only thing we could do is pursue a civil case.
I really want the deer back, complete or not. If it is incomplete I will pay for the work he has done and take it elsewhere. I would rather not go down the civil case route, but he really is not giving me any option right now. If he just called / emailed / texted back with an update (good or bad) all would be good.
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
In November 2019 my wife killed a real nice Axis buck at her dads ranch. It was high fence, and I understand the hate for high fence, but this is the only land we had access too. Not much public land in Texas.
We called around for a taxidermist and found one a 2hr drive away who had great reviews, sounded great on the phone and at the time I spent a lot of time in the area for work so it made sense. My wife dropped the deer off and said the store and the taxidermist was very professional, the weird thing is he insisted on no deposit. This was the first deer we had took to a taxidermist so at the time we thought this was OK and proceeded, he took note of the license/ID and took possession of the caped deer head
In Summer 2020 I emailed and was told that with covid things were really slow. I emailed again in January 2021, just over a year from when we first dropped the deer off, we got a reply a week later saying he was awaiting on the tannery and that he will begin working on it as soon as he can. I said I would reach back out to him around Easter 2021. Since January 2021 I have heard nothing, I have emailed, called and text. I have tried calling from different numbers but no answer. I call every couple of months but nothing....
I called the game warden for advice in September 2021 and she said she had multiple complaints about this taxidermist ghosting people and that she would call him. Later that day she called to say that he is working on the deer and it will be ready when it is ready. She said that she could not do anything and that the only thing we could do is pursue a civil case.
I really want the deer back, complete or not. If it is incomplete I will pay for the work he has done and take it elsewhere. I would rather not go down the civil case route, but he really is not giving me any option right now. If he just called / emailed / texted back with an update (good or bad) all would be good.
Has anyone experienced anything similar?