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Almost Alive Taxidermy is a taxidermy studio located in Denver, Colorado offering expert mounting services for waterfowl, big game, exotic animals, and more.
Led by award-winning owner Jerrod Chapman, the full-time studio focuses on lifelike, artistic work that preserves your hunting memories "Almost Alive" with quality intended to last a lifetime.
They position themselves at the intersection of quality and price, with an emphasis on realistic mounts, reasonable costs, and quick turnaround times.
They work on a broad range of game animals including big game, small game, birds and waterfowl, and exotics.
The studio offers shoulder and game head mounts, life-size and half-life-size mounts, European mounts, and detailed bird mounts with custom habitat-style bases and scenery.
Serving the Denver community for 21 years, Jerrod and his team of experienced outdoorsmen bring decades of hands-on hunting and taxidermy experience to each project.
They emphasize lifelike realism, natural poses, and detailed, competition-level craftsmanship, and state there is not a mount or pose they cannot recreate, even with specimens that were not perfectly prepared.
They publish a detailed price list and promote fair, reasonable pricing—for example, ducks around $425, deer around $695, antelope around $675, turkeys around $1000, elk approximately $1250–$1550, moose around $1550, buffalo around $1650, and various life-size or half-life-size mounts ranging from about $700 to $2950—and encourage you to call for accurate project-specific quotes.
They highlight quick, expert mounting with speedy turnaround, ask you to call for timing on your specific piece, and note they return calls as soon as possible, even outside normal business hours.
They frequently incorporate realistic waterfowl poses, custom scenery, and customized bases to create habitat-style displays.
Reviews are strongly positive about quality, praising the mounts as incredible, highly detailed, and realistic, with many customers noting pieces that still look perfect after many years and calling the shop one of the best in town, though a few reviewers report isolated quality issues on specific jobs.
Most reviewers describe the team as friendly, honest, professional, and easy to work with, appreciating clear communication and helpful guidance, while a small number mention rude interactions or feeling like an inconvenience.
Customers frequently compliment fast or on-time turnaround and say the work is worth the wait during busy seasons, but some report significant delays on certain projects, so reliability can vary, especially when the shop is busy.
Almost Alive Taxidermy operates from a fully licensed and equipped shop at 851 E Highway 224 Unit 8B, Denver, CO 80229, conveniently located next to I-25 and serving Denver and the surrounding Colorado sportsman community.
You can call the studio during weekday business hours—or leave a message anytime—to discuss your animal, review pricing and timelines, or schedule a visit to plan your mount.
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