great horned owl

[ryan rhodes]

I'm taking in a great horned owl for a nature center here in CT and I kinda have a price in my head and was wondering what someone with experience doing them would charge.  Just want to see if i'm way off base.  Thanks for any help.  Ryan

[RDA]

out here,  it would be a four hunert dolla piece.......

[leopardpaws]

Which nature center? i know the one in hammonasette state park collects taxidermy. Is that the one?

[jasonb]

Are you no longer working for Edwin?

[Daniel Callan]

$425 here with a basic habitat

[ryan rhodes]

whew!  I quoted them $600 with a small table base, guess i'm covered!  Thanks guys.   Ryan
No not the one in hammonasette.

[Old Fart]

Back when they were legal(pre 1972) I used to easily knock out two a day.  They have very tough skins and are much easier to do than a pheasant.  I got $35 each for them back then.

[ryan rhodes]

damn, times have changed, wasn't even born yet in 1972, not even close

[Old Fart]

GHOs have to be the easiest bird to mount, because of their tough skin and huge amount of feathers. That was "good" money in those days, you could get a deer head mounted for that back then. The owls kept me in spending money through college. Minimum wage was less than $2 an hour and the job I worked allowed me to hang the owls in the shop and sell them off the wall. The last one I did I charged $300 and that's been a few years.  The guy showed up with all the paperwork and I shot him a price, because I was busy, I upped it a bit and he didn't bat an eye. When the law changed in 1972, I probably had a dozen in the freezer to mount, I just chucked them in the garbage. Hey, you couldn't sell them any more, what good were they!

[ryan rhodes]

yeah, these laws are kind of a shame in a way.  I get several calls a year from people who find hawks and owls and such on the raod dead and want a nice piece for their office or whatever.  It's a shame that nothing can be done.  I like that old atricle in breakthrough with the pics of george lesser's shop in new york with those scores of owls and other raptors.  Man that would be cool...