I enjoyed the video. I was a taxidermist for 35 years until I retired ( had a car accident ) so I miss it a lot. The anticipation of deer season. .. the many stories. .. it brought back many good memories. Thank you. ..God bless you. ...curt

Folks, your videos are great. To see a family hunting, sharing, laughing and smiling together is wonderful. Way to go Mom and Dad, you have obviously done something very well!!

That full body mount is definitely a beauty

That Full Body mount is Gorgeous!!! Great job!!!

The bond you have with your son and close friends in the videos reminds me of how close my brother and I have a relationship with our Dad. We love deer season in the Adirondacks and can’t wait to get back up in the mountains any chance we get. Hope to visit your shop someday very soon. Love all your videos !!!!

Great video and awesome looking work! Keep the videos coming. Thanks guys

Most craftsman are more judgmental of their own work. But that just means you strive for perfection. Great looking shop and workmanship.

Gr8 father/ son pride. Very nice family.

Never had a deer mount always wanted one. I wish my father did this kind of work. Very lucky son to have a father that does. Keep up the great work its awesome!

Great video, love the bond you have with your dad. One day hope to have similar going in my life. Thanks

I'm glad I came across your videos! Kevin's Taxidermy in Swanton (my local taxidermist) decided to hang up his hat. I enjoy your videos and I look forward to getting my next mount to Mountain Deer Taxidermy.

Great work! That full body buck mount is beautiful

Beautiful shop with some great mounts!!! Love the channel.... Merry Christmas

Thanks. Great job Rodney... like to learn more your videos have been great.. I learn some great tip.. I'm from Minnesota...

I have to admit that full mount and all shoulder mounts ...awesome work.

A cool shop with gorgeous mounts.

Beautiful work!!

I’ll be bring you my next wall hanger. I do have a few racks now I wish I had mounted but it’s never to late.

Outstanding !!

Yes awesome stuff

Never been there but I did live there so I decided to support the channel

Been once them moved back to shrewsburry vt! I will definitely be stopping in and show you guys some of our big vermont bucks! My wife has shot two slobs you would like to see! I’ve gotten a few hogs myself and would love to share some videos and pics with you fellas!! This is great to no that’s your shop!

You guys are amazing... Ive been watching and following you, and have learned so much about tracking... Thanks for your time fellas.... Keep it coming!

@mtndeer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason! You able to make it to the Tracking Seminar this year? Love to have you

@JasonSmith-bv3yd

4 жыл бұрын

@@mtndeer .....i live and hunt here in Pennsylvania, so I won't be able to make it out!!!... Our archery season opener is only a out a week out!... Hope all goes well at the seminar, I'll enable to catch a live or a video if y'all do one!..... Thanks again!

@mtndeer

4 жыл бұрын

@@JasonSmith-bv3yd We will for sure have something up for ya then! Too bad. But hope you have a great season!🦌👍

How cool! Mike Renaud did my first whitetail buck I ever killed back in 2011. Killed in Fletcher, Vt! This was a great video, glad to have found this new subscription!

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome Dylan! Glad you Made it 👍

I'm new to your guys channel, didn't know you did taxidermy! Awesome!

Man I think that's funny you mentioned Mike...... my son just had a deer done by his son I've known Mike for a long time when he lived in Winooski Vermont I took his son hunting a couple times he's a great turkey hunter....small world

Pete lajoie does all our mounts but next big boy we will bring to you I would love to see the work and can say you guys mounted a vermont monster for us!!

beautiful work

Hey, the mushroom buck or the white moose was last video u guys wore white camo!! I enjoy watching your vids and think it's very cool the bonds you guys have around deer hunting! And life in general, keep em coming guys! You have given some good tracking tips and deer knowledge. Thanks boys

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

Your right on Thomas! Glad you enjoy them and we will keep them coming for ya! Have a great holiday season and hope everything is going great. And, HAPPY HUNTING!

I have been there and never new it was you guys lol! That was years ago!

Hell yea! Love me some taxidermy! #Subbed.

I don't know if you saw my comment for a mount video... if you did thank you and keep them coming

Awesome shop Guys!! I’m a fellow taxidermist from northern mn. Nice work Rodney, you are a busy man. I really enjoy the videos, so informative and unselfish with the tracking information. You guys are true giving people, sharing your knowledge with others ( you don’t see that much these days) Its on my bucket list to track a big buck down. I’ve done some tracking over the years in my hunting area (only 4 by 4 miles square)but they run out onto private land .The nearest big woods is a long ways away, would love to do a Maine trip one day. Ontario is a possibility. I know you guys have hunted Canada, maybe I could talk to one of u fellows on the phone or email about some specifics on the deer and the landscape in Ontario. Thanks for your time and effort!!!

@2500zman

5 жыл бұрын

M B what's your business info, I've been browsing taxidermists in northern MN

Thanks for sharing

13:25, that's just one that I seen and it don't look like an alien! Lol that one looks awesome! I got bout 10 heads on the wall and only 2 of them look good but you get what you pay for!

on my next VT beer run, im stopping by!!!

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds good! we will see you then 👍

I imagined your dad was going to be Johnny Bravo. Lol Beautiful taxidermy, btw.

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

😂👍

this is so pure

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

👍glad you enjoyed 😊

Great shop and great video! Please adjust volume or mic Rodney, Taylor is too load and we don't hear what Rodney is saying without getting blown away. thanks

There is something Rodney that I have never told you, although I have commented a plenty and you have always answered, I did taxidermy for a living for eight years , and I also taught it at a wilkes community college, and I only live forty minutes from McKenzies plant at granite quarry NC , I would just drive down there and get what I needed for a week or so , and go back to the shop and mount ,,all this said I just wondered how much business you do with that company?

@mtndeer

4 жыл бұрын

as you know they got a pretty good monopoly on things. lol quiet a bit as you would expect .

@bobbygreen2291

4 жыл бұрын

Rodney Elmer & Mountain Deer I figured that , there is a place in Hickory NC called H @ K researches , a chemically based company, and a friend of mine works there and developed the a and b uafoam that those manikins and targets are made of , this was back in the 70 s ,,,but I believe that company still exist today. The guy who developed that foams name is Leonard Cornwell, he is a black man who resides in Lincoln county NC

Looks nice.

Love Vermont and what you guys do great stories,,,,,,my recommendation stop moving your camera around as much and fast as you do

@mtndeer

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, some of our older videos weren’t the best lol

You guys need deer antler management.....I can tell by the size of this years haul that there is a problem.....I thought Alabama and Mississippi had issues but our deer much better on average....but we finally began managing and people are more conservative about what they harvest.....fortunately most hunters are only harvesting bucks they would mount.....and we have a liberal doe harvest....we are seeing larger and more mature deer than we ever have.....it’s great...wish we had done it 25 or 30 years ago.

Thanks

nice shop

Great shop and great workmanship fellas! As a recently retired full-timer, I am qualified to ask this....how the heck do you keep your shop so organized!!? In my shop I'd have had all those freezers so stacked with crap..Lol.

@mtndeer

6 жыл бұрын

The little things matter to. Clean neat work spaces make you happy to work there and things come out better. If I end late and leave things a mess at night, no problem, next day clean first thing.

I would like to see a video of Rodney doing some work on a deer because I want to learn how to do it for a career

Could you do a video of the Shop and what you do where and why and needed for a taxidermist. Special things you do different.

Now that is completely awesome. One question how long does it take to do a head mount?

@mtndeer

6 жыл бұрын

working time maybe 12 to 14 hrs. , couple weeks of drying in the winter , stove running.

Nice work.but I live in Saskatchewan and I dident see one deer there that was big enough for mounting. Just dont get that big there I guess.

@KarCar13

4 жыл бұрын

Only in Merica 🙄

Love the video and the shop would love to see some taxidermy instructional videos, im kinda late i guess but im 43 and spent most of my life working away from home in oilfield but trying to make a change ive helped mount to whitetail shoulder mounts years ago and have done a few antler and euro mounts but rt now im like a sponge trying to learn all i can about taxidermy . Hoping to change my profession from welder to taxidermist over the next couple years and go from working out of town and state 9-10 months a year to working at home any and all help learning i can absorb would be awesome and love watching different people and different ways , again awesome videos

I got an buffalo last year and sent it to a taxidermy ._. my family that stays the night tells me to keep it in the basement as well and my wolf. Because of the way they would stare the wolf is in the growling mode. I mean come on the cougar more scary and they have no problem with him.

Is it save to hunt with to CWD disease?

Would you mount a hen and drake wood duck if i could send them to you.

nice setup

@mtndeer

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks we like it a lot! Need some updating but pretty good

check out our web site for prices

Nice video

@highpoweroutdoors

6 жыл бұрын

What kind of hunting coats do you guys use it has like a build in orange vest with it?

What do you guys think about antler point restrictions and rifle doe harvest?

@mtndeer

6 жыл бұрын

The original intent of the apr was to better diversify the buck age class structure. It's success is some what in question but the "average" buck moved from a 1 1/2 yr. old #3 pt. 113 pds.... to a 2 1/2 yr. old #5 pt 137pds. Accurate Percentages of age classes from pulled teeth (rifle & youth) are on going and check on vt. fish& wildlife web site. for hearings schedules. Rifle doe harvest maybe deemed necessary seeing how muzzleloaders maybe not getting the job done in some places. Following three easier winters , with deer yards at a (5 out of ten in my opinion) and a large herds in the two valleys , this could be the chance to destroy remaining vibrancy in existing yards and should definitely be avoided. 3 milds followed by 1 or 2 bad winters in a row could lead to 30 years of terrible hunting. Keeping the deer numbers down at this point is a must. ( IN SOME PLACES!!!!!)

Holy sh**!!

Is it possible to ship stuff fron NY for you to do? Just curious. Thanks guys..

@mtndeer

6 жыл бұрын

yes if your tags, stamps are in order and deer head must be caped and nervous system is removed for cwd into Vermont, no full head without skull cap removal! fresh frozen over night ship Mondays or Tuesdays.

Do you guys do any pre season scouting, or cameras

@mtndeer

3 жыл бұрын

Nope 🦌👍

Do you guys still do the Yankee Sportsman Classic show ? Will you be there this year ? Doing any other Sportsman’s shows this year ? Good video Taylor and beautiful shop and work Rodney.

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

Buck Tales from NH yes we will be there! Going to do a processing deer seminar each day and will show caping the head out of it on Sunday

@bucktalesoutdoors7566

5 жыл бұрын

Rodney Elmer & Mountain Deer Taxidermy .... Awesome, look forward to see you there. What time on Sunday is camping seminar ?

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

sat 11.00am to 2;00 sun1;00 to 3;00 caping of head

@bucktalesoutdoors7566

5 жыл бұрын

Rodney Elmer & Mountain Deer Taxidermy...... thanks

Just shot my first doe and I did a skull mount FRIKEN DOPE!!! #subbed

what was the name of that bird?

Guys I like the videos you put out...never been to the shop I’m in PA...if I ever get that far north I’ll stop by. Also I like the real hunting you guys do...this is the style of hunting I can appreciate not the managed farms like in the Midwest where the TV hosts are trophy hunting for the money, glory and fame...that’s not the hunting heritage that I grew up with and live by... Do you mind sharing the make and model video equipment you use?

@mtndeer

4 жыл бұрын

Sure thing! For most of the film this past season we have been using a 2018 Canon 80D with a kit lens. As well as a bunch of Canon Powershot sx50hs 2010- 2016. Each video has a like with more info on each 👍

@mattprout9383

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Guys...

I want a mount badly

@mtndeer

6 жыл бұрын

you want to hunt and get one? or buy one?

What is your price range?

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

see web site

@Meatygg

5 жыл бұрын

Rodney Elmer & Mountain Deer Taxidermy I check on the site didn’t see anything about prices

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

sorry had a problem on the site should work now click on three lines in left hand corner then... mounts, for pricing. apologies got it straightened out this morning

@Meatygg

5 жыл бұрын

Rodney Elmer & Mountain Deer Taxidermy thank you so much

No bears ?

@mtndeer

4 жыл бұрын

We normally get into mounting the bears in early summer. So just hadn’t started building any yet. 👍

New sub I wished you lived closer to me

@mtndeer

6 жыл бұрын

Where are you from?

@michaelprevost1229

6 жыл бұрын

Northern new york 90 miles north of Syracuse up by canada border

@mtndeer

6 жыл бұрын

That’s not too bad. A bit out there but doable. Welcome to the channel! We do an outdoor show at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds but that is as far that way as we usually go. Maybe we will see you there next year!

I was confused..i have not been to the shop so i just gave a thumb s down..ok?...is that how this works..

@mtndeer

5 жыл бұрын

no problem at all

The deer there are small the deer in Kansas are way bigger that’s where I live

Never been to the shop so I had to give it a thumbs down.. I don't make the rules, I just follow them

Why does this exist? Poor animals! 😢