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I do quite a bit of buisness with several different dip pack operations. Here are some 2006 USD prices: I'll use a bushbuck for an example price, altough they are all fairly close in price.
Dip Pack Pretoria: 65 bucks any plains game animal
Capricorn Taxidermy Northern Province: 40 bucks for the skull and horns and 30 bucks for the cape. So 70 bucks total for bushbuck
Ace Taxidermy in Bela Bela: 68 bucks for bushbuck
Safari Taxidermy Northern Province: 120 bucks for bushbuck
This is for the dip pack only. There may be an incidental paperwork charge for the entire lot of game per hunter. This would likley be under 100 bucks regardless of the amount of game, one animal or a dozen or more.
Shipping of only three animals will be very expensive by themselves I would suggest a combined shipment with another hunter that you can split the freight with when they arrive. You should figure on 125 bucks per animal regardless of pieces (horns, cape, skin, etc.) for shipping and if you cannot fetch it your self from the shipper then another 300 bucks for that. I strongly suggest you Do this yourself or have the taxidermist doing your taxidermy handle the inportation of the trophies as part of the taxidermy cost. Although not many will do that for only three animals to be mounted. If you have 5 or more I know several that do this as a regular process.
I have done this long enough to know a few ways to make it affordable but to do that I need details on your plans and the outfitter you arrange this with may not care to help on his end?
Dip Pack Pretoria: 65 bucks any plains game animal
Capricorn Taxidermy Northern Province: 40 bucks for the skull and horns and 30 bucks for the cape. So 70 bucks total for bushbuck
Ace Taxidermy in Bela Bela: 68 bucks for bushbuck
Safari Taxidermy Northern Province: 120 bucks for bushbuck
This is for the dip pack only. There may be an incidental paperwork charge for the entire lot of game per hunter. This would likley be under 100 bucks regardless of the amount of game, one animal or a dozen or more.
Shipping of only three animals will be very expensive by themselves I would suggest a combined shipment with another hunter that you can split the freight with when they arrive. You should figure on 125 bucks per animal regardless of pieces (horns, cape, skin, etc.) for shipping and if you cannot fetch it your self from the shipper then another 300 bucks for that. I strongly suggest you Do this yourself or have the taxidermist doing your taxidermy handle the inportation of the trophies as part of the taxidermy cost. Although not many will do that for only three animals to be mounted. If you have 5 or more I know several that do this as a regular process.
I have done this long enough to know a few ways to make it affordable but to do that I need details on your plans and the outfitter you arrange this with may not care to help on his end?
You cannot do swine or primates without and Ag permit if they are in the box you must have a broker. Many good African Taxidermists have the AG permit so they can act as the broker for you.
You cannot import any box that has contents owned by another person. For that you must also use a broker.
If the crate has no swine, primates, and only your things, actually or "claimed" prior to shipping then you can import the contents for yourself.
You must go and get the packet of infromtaion from the shipper when it arrives, then take it to the Fderal F&W office to fill out the paperwork there. It's a simple matter of taking the information from the shippers documents and copying it to the US F&W documents. This is a no brainer it will take you 10 minutes at the counter and they will usually help you if you have a question.
Once that is done and stamped you will take those to the US Customs office to have them agree to allow the crate into the USA. They have never given me any problem with this as the Federal F&W guys have already cleared the contents so they think it's OK as well. On a couple of occasions they have actually said " I don''t know what these animals are but if it's ok with the F&W guys it's OK with me."
Once you have them sign off on the paperwork you can go back to the Shiipper and get the crate. They will release it to you when they see the papers stamped by both FedF&W and US Customs and ofcourse the shipping fee's are paid.
A couple notes on this. You will have to accept the whole crate. They will not open it and give you only the contents. You must have a truck that can handle this crate. A full size pickup has always worked for me. The day they call you for pickup, you will have 24 hours to remove the crate from their warehouse. After that they will start charging you about 25 bucks a day storage fee.
There is nothing complicated about the process. The things to figure out ahead of time are the locations of the US Customs office, the Federal F&W office and the airport freight company that will have the freight. You may need appointments at each place as well. It could take a day away from your job to do this. Be patient and just do these three things and you could save several hundred dollars in the process. But be careful if they call you when your out of town for a week you could have a hella big storage bill too!
You cannot import any box that has contents owned by another person. For that you must also use a broker.
If the crate has no swine, primates, and only your things, actually or "claimed" prior to shipping then you can import the contents for yourself.
You must go and get the packet of infromtaion from the shipper when it arrives, then take it to the Fderal F&W office to fill out the paperwork there. It's a simple matter of taking the information from the shippers documents and copying it to the US F&W documents. This is a no brainer it will take you 10 minutes at the counter and they will usually help you if you have a question.
Once that is done and stamped you will take those to the US Customs office to have them agree to allow the crate into the USA. They have never given me any problem with this as the Federal F&W guys have already cleared the contents so they think it's OK as well. On a couple of occasions they have actually said " I don''t know what these animals are but if it's ok with the F&W guys it's OK with me."
Once you have them sign off on the paperwork you can go back to the Shiipper and get the crate. They will release it to you when they see the papers stamped by both FedF&W and US Customs and ofcourse the shipping fee's are paid.
A couple notes on this. You will have to accept the whole crate. They will not open it and give you only the contents. You must have a truck that can handle this crate. A full size pickup has always worked for me. The day they call you for pickup, you will have 24 hours to remove the crate from their warehouse. After that they will start charging you about 25 bucks a day storage fee.
There is nothing complicated about the process. The things to figure out ahead of time are the locations of the US Customs office, the Federal F&W office and the airport freight company that will have the freight. You may need appointments at each place as well. It could take a day away from your job to do this. Be patient and just do these three things and you could save several hundred dollars in the process. But be careful if they call you when your out of town for a week you could have a hella big storage bill too!
