Ron and Susan Orcutt — husband-and-wife shop, one artist for big game, one for birds. Fully tanned, hand-finished, built to hang for the rest of your life.
RON & SUSAN ORCUTT · OWNERS + MAKERS
Ron mounts big game. Susan mounts birds. Together, eighteen years in Pinedale — every trophy handled by the artist who specializes in it.
Both trained at Montana School of Taxidermy in Helena. Susan also studied bird work with sculptor Stephan Stevidas — which is why the feather lay and eye expression on her birds look like the animal just landed. Fully tanned, hand-finished mounts built to last decades on a wall.
No fish — that's the one category we don't take.
Shoulder mounts, life-size, full-body, pedestal. Eighteen years of elk and mule deer from the Wind River Range. Fully tanned, anatomically referenced, built to last on the wall.
Susan studied with sculptor and bird taxidermist Stephan Stevidas. Wing set, feather lay, eye — the details that make the difference between a stiff bird and one that looks like it just landed.
Europeans and horn plaques aren't tied to tannery delays the way full mounts are. A sharp way to memorialize a hunt — and a much shorter wait. Ask about current timing when you call.
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Every photo is a real customer's mount from the shop. Call Ron or Susan to see the full archive — elk to game-bird scale.
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Susan's Black Bear took the Outstanding Habitat Award for the State of Wyoming — judged by people who know exactly how a bear stands in the wild, and score for it.
Both Ron and Susan trained at Montana School of Taxidermy in Helena. Ron handles big game; Susan studied bird sculpting with Stephan Stevidas, whose teaching is visible in every wing set and feather lay she produces.
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"We dedicate ourselves to providing our customers with quality, realistic, and lifelike recreations. We pay close attention to detail and produce the highest quality mounts with unbeatable life-like characteristics."