Anchorage / Alaska / United States
website. If your not a member, please consider becoming one. Click on the button above for more info. Knights Taxidermy has over 32 years experience doing Taxidermy in Alaska in the same building !. During This time, we have learned many of the life lessons that will make your trip go smoothly. Please take a few minutes to read this and it will help you plan your trip as well as educate you on how to handle or process your big game trophies. For the non-resident Hunter from any State, you must educate yourself on how best to handle the Big game animal your stalking. You need to establish a relationship with a Alaskan taxidermist before you go hunting. This allows you to best judge if the services offered, meet your needs. Meet the taxidermist and his staff and get all your questions answered before you go into the field. Be sure to get the price list and be prepared for any charges that may apply. Shipping and trucking are figured out at the end of the job. Thats the only way we can make sure the price is current. Some hunters come to town a day early to come out to the shop to go over details. If you can not make it, call the shop with all your questions and let us know to be looking for your trophy. Make sure that your follow these rules and you will have less worries. IDENTIFY. Be sure, you make it your responsibility to put proper tagging on your trophy. Have plastic laminated tags made by your taxidermy shop or use something else that will work when wet, and put one on your cape and one on your horns. Just make sure when you loose sight of your animals, that they can be well identified by a total stranger. Keep track of all your Big Game tag numbers as well as your hunting license number, long after the hunt.These are on the metal tags that must be affixed to the horns or skins. You may need them 2 years later. If your name tags fall off, these metal tags help a whole lot. Also if you ship the trophies yourself, be sure to put instructions inside the box, write it on a piece of paper and put it in a sandwich baggy and tape it to the horn or put with in box. NOTE: Please make sure any Temporary sealing certificates are with all Bears and animals requiring the State of Alaska sealing requirement when they arrive. We can Seal everything except Dall Sheep, we will take them to Fish and game on your behalf to have them sealed but we need the hunter registration card and your hunting license to take with me to F & G. FIELD CARE If you shoot it, you should be able to skin and flesh the animal, if you are not up to this chore, I suggest you call the taxidermist and see if he can sell you some book or CD or some info on skinning. If your on a guided hunt, you still need to know what to do. Youll want to go over with the skinner and let him know your skinning preferences. This is usually a assistant guide. Talk to your taxidermist about what he expects to be done to the hide. Usually a trip out to our taxidermy shop would be helpful for you when are refreshing your self on what to do in the field, check and see if we are working on a animal and we will let you come out and watch. Knights also gives skinning classes from time to time. Your going to all this effort, lets do it right the first time. I always know who the serious hunters are, they show up before the hunt with lots of questions, study what to do by watching things being worked on in the taxidermy shop and leave more confident in their abilities to handle the skin properly. FREIGHT Getting your animal out of the field can be an added cost. Be prepared for it ! Getting it by airplane from the field to a airport then being shipped into Anchorage. Make arrangements with the shop so we know to be expecting it. After hours pickups are available but you must call the shop for the arrangement. We pick up all over town at hotels, and the airports, both of them. Common carriers we pick up from are Northern Air cargo, Everts air cargo, and Alaska airlines, Penn air, these are
