Trophy Expediting and Shipping

How to Get Your Trophies Home to the USA

We provide our own in-house expediting service! This means we personally do all the turning, fleshing and salting of hides; boiling of skulls; creating, permitting, documentation and Exporting of Trophies. This means we have control over how your trophies are treated and save you the headache of dealing with people you don't know on the other side of the world!

Budget on:

$250 per trophy (processing and prep for shoulder capes/skulls)
$100 per shipment for export documents/ admin
$250-$500 custom built ply wood crate
Approx $1,000 - $1,800 freight to US fish and wildlife port of entry in the US. Cost varies on size, this is indicative cost for 1 or 2 Stags and other small trophies e.g. Fallow, Rusa, Tahr, Chamois, Ram, Goat.
Approx $300 - $500 for your Customs Broker to clear the shipment through US customs at port of entry and forward on to you/ your taxidermist.
Additional costs:
$100 if you want both a European whole skull boiled / bleached and the shoulder cape salted/dried
Velvet curing *from $300 (depending on size) and add extra time allowance as this is done thru a taxidermist

What to bring:

Your clearance agent/broker name, address, phone, email
If you don't have a broker, get set up with Coppersmith Global logistics before or during the hunt: https://www.huntingtrophy.com/

Timeframe:

Allow up to 6 months for your trophies to get back to the US. Due to Airline wildlife embargo's the only Airline offering trophy shipping is Air New Zealand and there is considerable backlog. It can take up to 3 months for us to fully process and prep your trophies and get them crated and shipped. Then it is up to the broker & logistics shipping agent to get everything lined up and booked in which can sometimes take up to 3 months.
While we are trying to streamline our expediting process to speed up your delivery please don't be alarmed if there are delays. This is still quicker and cheaper then getting your trophies to a 3rd party Expediter for processing.

Trophies to other countries:

For shipping to countries other than the US we will deliver your trophies to https://www.nzexpediters.co.nz/ for shipping.
Your trophies will be labelled and frozen
Their facility is a 12 hr round trip delivery so we will consolidate until a full load can be taken, this may be up to 3 months during peak season.

Crating trophies

Taking trophies home on the plane:

For people wanting to save some money on crating, freight & Customs broker, we can help you get trophies home on the plane with you (to the United States & Australia only - all other countries will not allow importation of raw animal trophies or even antlers).
For this option still budget on $250 per trophy for processing (boiling / bleaching skulls / caping & freezing skins / wrapping and packing antlers ready to take on the plane)
Keep in mind this only works for 1 or 2 trophies maximum (eg Red Stag and Fallow) as expediting / trophy preparation is a time consuming process and trying to complete this during your hunting package duration can be difficult
Antlered game only - there is not enough time to sufficiently process and dry horned animals for export e.g. Ram, Goat, Tahr, Chamois
Make sure you fly with an Airline that that allows shipping of Trophy Hunted Animals (e.g. Air New Zealand, United, American, Delta, Quantas, Jestar). Airlines that have strict trophy bans include Emirates, Air France, Qatar, Virgin Airlines. We recommend Air New Zealand as the best Airline to fly with for a number of different reasons.

Clinton heading back to Australia with his Red Stag antlers and cape