COURSE DESCRIPTION

Do you want to spend 9 months and many thousands of dollars studying anatomy, theory and taking tests? Or do you want to learn hands on taxidermy and be ready to open your door for business in five weeks?

 

Taxidermy may include tanning, sculpting, molding and casting your own forms. These are areas you may want to explore at some point, but they are not necessary tools you need to open for business.
Most successful commercial taxidermists do not employ these techniques, they are too busy doing taxidermy to tan their own capes and sculpt their own forms.

 

Every industry sub-contracts for some part of their work. The mechanic who works on your car does tune ups, brake work, etc… but he doesn’t manufacture the parts he uses.

 He’s too busy doing what he does best and earning a living at it.

 

Time is money!  Why spend yours tanning and shaving hides when there are good commercial tanneries out there. Why cast and sculpt your own forms when you can order them from a catalog. In the time it takes to self tan a skin, cast, mold and pour your own form, you could do a dozen mounts and be paying the bills.
Another comment I’ve heard often is “The best way to learn taxidermy is with one on one instruction.” That may be fine if your interested in learning one aspect of taxidermy such as Whitetail Deer heads for example.

I believe that the more options, recipes, problems and solutions that you are exposed to, the better off you will be when you're out on your own. Being in a class with 5-6 other students who are doing mounts different from yours is going to expose you to infinitely more options. I have asked dozens of former students who have their own taxidermy businesses if they thought that they would have learned more with a one on one instructor.

All of them believe that their exposure to such a broad spectrum of options was a huge factor in their success.

There are more and more taxidermists around the country anymore that are trying to augment their incomes by offering specialty training. That is, workshops and seminars in specific areas of taxidermy. Training in specific areas of taxidermy such as game heads, or birds, or fish etc… Is fine if your interested in specializing in that one area.

If you want to go into taxidermy as a full service business, then its best to attend a full curriculum school, absorb as much general knowledge as you can, and then later attend a seminar on specific areas to fine tune your skills if needed.

Remember that not everyone offering training is necessarily qualified to teach, so its up to you to do your own homework. Choose a school with a good track record and a good number of years in business.

We not only teach you step by step, practical techniques, we also concentrate on the artistic aspect of the industry. Let us teach you the art of creating beautiful mounts and habitat scenes that will have your customers coming back for more!