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This podcast highlights top level hunting tactics from some of the most accomplished Do-It-Yourself hunters active today, including names like Dan Infalt of The Hunting Beast and John Eberhart of Eberhart Outdoors. Tune in for lessons learned from the most experienced and successful hunters active today!
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Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
In today’s episode, we catch up with Dan Infalt, a man who needs no introduction. Dan has revolutionized techniques for hunting bedded bucks, mobile hunting tactics, and he has been gracious enough to share his incredible wealth of know with thousands of other hunters via thehuntingbeast forum, which Dan founded. Dan also co-founded hunting beast gear dot com, a company that develops and produces mobile hunting gear specifically designed for mobile hunters. I personally owe nearly all of my bowhunting success since 2014 to the lessons I have learned from Dan and the other members on the hunting beast forum.
In this podcast we discuss early season tactics. Specifically, Dan and I discuss common features of early season bedding areas, if hunting field edges is ever the correct play, early season food sources, hot weather hunting and its effects on buck movement, early season rubs and scrapes and how Dan uses that intel, trail camera strategies, and tactics to attack new terrain or new states during the early season.
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I want to start out today’s podcast with an important public service announcement. Today is August 26th, and I have had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with a taxidermist here in Montana for the past 21 months that is possibly the most unethical business person I have ever dealt with. I want to save you guys from ever enduring this experience. The taxidermist’s name is Don Keever, and his taxidermy shop name is Antler’s and Anglers Taxidermy and it’s located at 2905 Grelck Lane in Billings Montana. I would like everyone listening to pull out your phone and enter this phone number (406)855-7655, that’s (406)855-7655 and title the contact in your phone “Do Not Use Ever”. Let me elaborate on the reasons why you as a hunter who values his time and his money should never use Antler’s and Anglers Taxidermy shop. I will try and keep this short, but bear with me.
I dropped off my largest whitetail buck to date in November of 2019 to Antlers and Anglers Taxidermy. This was a 141” deer with a 22” neck. I explicitly stated to Don that turnaround time was an important factor I considered when selecting a taxidermist. Don stated his average turn around time was 12 months. When I pressed him for the absolute worst case scenario, he told me 18 months, absolute worst case scenario, these are his words. I paid Don his requested deposit of $400 on a total price of $595 for the completed mount. The following year in September of 2020, I shot a 10 point whitetail buck. Since 12 months had not elapsed, I took this buck to Don to be mounted as well. In October of 2020, I shot a pronghorn and took that to Don to be mounted as well. I paid Don a $400 deposit for each mount, totaling $1200 for all three mounts.
In November of 2020, 12 months after I initially dropped off the first mount, I called Don for the first time to get a status update on the progress of my deer mount. Don stated that the tannery he used, which he told me is named “The Wildlife Gallery Tannerys” located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan was running behind due to COVID-19 and that it would be 2 to 3 more months before my mount was completed. Fast forward 3 months to February 2021, I called Don for a second time to inquire about progress on my deer mount. Don told me almost verbatim, the same story that the Wildlife Gallery Tannery had not returned 2019 capes yet and that it would be two to three more months. Fast forward to May of 2021, a full 18 months after dropping off the first deer, I called Don for a status update, and he told me, almost verbatim the same story, that it would be 2-3 more months. At this point, Don had exceeded what were in his words his initially promised worst case scenario. I informed him that I would be coming to his shop to pick up my 3 skull plates and my capes. Don stated that my initial whitetail cape from 2019 had finally came back from the tannery. On May 6th, 2021, I travelled to Don’s shop and retrieved my 3 skull plates and one whitetail cape. The cape was labeled number 975, which was my invoice number. My skull plate was also labeled number 975. I took the cape and skull plate to a much more reputable taxidermist. The taxidermist informed me that the cape I received from Don measured only 19” and it was clearly not my original cape. Not once during any of our interactions did Don ever indicate I would not receive my original cape. When I confronted him, he stated that my cape had been damaged by bugs beyond repair at the tannery. Who knows what the truth is, but two facts are certain. First, I did not receive my original cape back. Second, Don only disclosed I received a much smaller replacement cape after I called him out on it.
When I picked up my skull plates and cape, I asked Don for a partial refund because he had done no work on my initial whitetail buck. I brought the cape to him skinned, and I never received that cape back as just mentioned. On my second whitetail buck he had skinned the faces and sent the hides out for tanning. I asked for $600 dollars of my $1200 deposit back, which seemed more than fair to me. Don refused to give me a single cent back. Not only did he try and pass off an inferior cape to me and not complete any of my work, he charged me $1200 to do that!!!
One final point, you might be thinking to yourself “hey maybe the Wildlife Gallery Tannery in Mt. Pleasant Michigan is that far behind.” I want to tell you, they are not. How do I know this you might ask? Because the taxidermist I took my buck to after getting it back from Don uses the exact same tannery. In fact, I shot a whitetail buck in November of 2020 in Kansas. My taxidermist in Michigan received the cape back in April of 2021, only 5 months later. Again, I want to reiterate that today is August 26th, and I have still not received my whitetail or antelope capes back from Don, although he claims my antelope cape has now been delivered to his shop, although I have a hard time believing that is even my cape after what has happened to date. Bottom line, avoid antlers and anglers taxidermy at 2905 Grelck Lane in Billings, MT. Put this number in your phone as “do not ever use” that’s Don Keever at (406)855-7655. I have almost the entire history of events in text message, if anyone would like to see those messages to corroborate this story, please feel free to contact me. Beware Antlers and Anglers Taxidermy and Don Keever.
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