First of all...how does a deer mount "look expensive" but not look good??? I dont think "Shane" knows what hes talking about! Good job Monica!

Also,

I want Misti and Kim to hang around and call out all of you dudes when you get out of line. We need that here sometimes. (WAM)

And Shane: If your guy is so good then why isnt he in F&S instead of Monica?

Monica does an excelent job I've been going to her place for a while looking at her work, not only have I took my own deer there, Ihave referred her to her to several of my hunting buddies. For anyone in the area, I suggest you stop by and observe her work for yourselves, I believe it will not be a waist of your time.

There is an 8 point with mass, width and height that compares with this deer in a park near my home. Got a good long look at him last week but did not have the camera so no pics as of yet. That might change.
Congrats to the hunter, he will be hard to top.

Wow, nice bucks!!

Iowa is really something, it kicks out monster bucks left and right. I didn't know they had such nice looking taxidermists though! Kudos to the first female taxidermist I've heard of, and nice job on the mounts!

60256 I agree very quality shot placement. And a Huge buck to be proud of. Congrats

yah Thanks Buckhunter! I think Kim and I could both handle them!

Nice job Junior on your big buck and also to you Monica for the work you do.

Well monica you are getting some very well deserved advertising !!! Your mounts are awsome I expect in the very near future that your husband will have to rerock your driveway as for the traffic will have it looking like a mud hole every one should stop buy and take alook around and see what a perfectionist that loves what she does and it shows with your work looking life like in all aspects !!!!
Again stop by and check out whats up @ taxidermy by Risher

monica has done work for me and my dad and to be honest, our deer look better than any other mounts i've ever seen, and i've seen alot of mounts done by some of the WORLDS so called best. i wouldn't think someone could make a mount look better than they do when they're still alive, but mine does!

Nice job to this guy.Keep on huntin'!

I have 11 days left to bowhunt. Though i have no expectations of a Booner, i am hoping to score a respectable mature buck. Putting a good shot on a doe yesterday, filling the fridge, has reinvigorated my desire to be on stand, which was waning. Not sure if i'll get away to rifle hunt this year due to family stuff, but i'm holding on to hope.

Man I wish we had deer like that! Nice Buck!

Nate

That is a stud buck!!!

Sorry to be a downer, but look at the way the mouth looks on the farthest deer in that picture. It just doesn't look the way it does when the thing is alive. Sorry for noticing details.

The price I assume is high for the fact that taxidermy is getting very expensive, and it's especially expensive with the bigger, well known shops. F&S isn't stopping in at the little guys. They're stopping in with the ones that have their name out all over, the ones that think 300-500 bucks for a deer mount is reasonable.

We really are heading for the dark ages, when hunting was reserved only for royalty. The prices of most things in the sport are astronomical lately. Unless I hit the lottery, I don't see myself getting anything mounted again. It's just not worth half a grand. I'll just have to do a picture under a skull mount. I'm gonna blow my brains out.

I hate to say it, but the mounts in the second from the last picture don't look that great. I would also guess that they were pretty expensive. My guy has done 2 of my deer for $225, which I will bet is much less than Risher charges, and they look like live deer, not an obviously dead and stuffed one.