Squirrel Taxidermy in Colorado

[trb]

I'd like to get a black one.
These folks advertise Abert's on their site.

Huffman Taxidermy LLC - Aberts Squirrel Taxidermy Mount

Abert’s Squirrel Taxidermy Lifesize Mounts by Huffman Taxidermy

huffmantaxidermy.com

Well I got good news for you.

Thanks for the tip, will contact them!


Around here the black ones seem to be more common than the grey and white pattern.

 

[wytex]

I've seen black ones in N Co but not on public land.

 

[LuketheDog]

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Well I got good news for you.

Thanks for the tip, will contact them!

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Around here the black ones seem to be more common than the grey and white pattern.

Yeah, the black ones seem to be most common, I've only read about the grey color phase.

 

[trb]

Yeah, the black ones seem to be most common, I've only read about the grey color phase.

While visiting Bandolier National Monument last year I saw only grey color phase strangely. I've only killed one, near Salida, the rest have been black. But this new Abert's spot I found accidentally during muzzleloader season seemed to have an equal number of both. Excited to get in there in a couple months.

 

[Beignet]

Anecdotally, I was gifted a taxidermied fox squirrel back in 2002 before I took off for college. Little log mounted dude wearing a sombrero.

After college I moved to New Orleans for a stint doing post-Katrina carpentry work circa 2006. I had these neighbors that used to make their beer runs in a formation of three on those little rascal wheelchair scooter things. They’d occasionally toss me a cold Busch on their way back from the corner store and have a chat.

After a year of probably drinking too much I was moving out of town and trying to lighten my load, so I gave their rascal gang leader the squirrel as a gift after I caught him admiring it while I was packing. The next day I saw that he’d removed it from the log and used the wire coming out the squirrel’s feet to mount it on the scooter handle just above his right shoulder. Looked like some kinda Busch-chugging rascal-riding pirate with a squirrel as a sidekick instead of a parrot.

Don’t really miss the humidity and the flatness, but I do miss all the weirdos in that town.

Hope you do something equally as rad with your squirrels.

 

[winmag]

Squirrels are small and easy to ship both ways. Just find a good squirrel taxidermist anywhere in the lower 48 states, ship it to them frozen, and have them ship it back to you when it’s complete.

 

[trb]

Got a hot lead from @Dsnow9 of a taxidermist that does them in the area. I am in contact with them, and waiting to hear the price. Thanks all!

 

[Dsnow9]

awesome! Glad it worked out!

 

[Cheese Curd]

John Lager lived in Littleton and would have been the guy to do it, but he died a few years ago.

 

[2rocky]

Gotta go out of state...

Chuck Testa is your man

 

[midwesterncrosshair]

Prices

Award Winning Radical Reflections Taxidermy brings your trophies back to life with attention to detail that is second to none.

radicalreflectionstaxidermy.com

Not in CO but his work looks good.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Too bad it’s sold out…

Squirrel Taxidermy Workshop - Sold Out

hmnh.harvard.edu

 

[trb]

Too bad it’s sold out…

Squirrel Taxidermy Workshop - Sold Out

hmnh.harvard.edu

I was never cut out for the Ivy Leagues anyway.

I am all set with a taxidermist, just waiting for the season opener to go in there and make my trophy Abert's dreams come true.

 

[Bluffgruff]

I was never cut out for the Ivy Leagues anyway.

I am all set with a taxidermist, just waiting for the season opener to go in there and make my trophy Abert's dreams come true.

So who did you go with? I keep running into $900 price tag for squirrels, and that is too much for getting a squirrel slam done.

 

[2rocky]

I think this is your guy...Good handle on Rodent anatomy and creative vision..

Good Reading:

The Art of Repurposed Rodents

The mouse dioramas in Dinner For Schmucks led me to learn more about anthropomorphic taxidermy.

www.wired.com

 

[2rocky]

 

[DNK]

Nice!

 

[trb]

Just dropped this large female off with the taxidermist.

 

[DouglasR]

Just dropped this large female off with the taxidermist.
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How many discounted lift tickets doess it take to get a lead on those alberts?

 

[Art Vandeley]

Cute little buggers aren’t they