Misty Mountain Taxidermy

They handle a wide range of work across big game, small game, birds, fish, skulls, antlers, and rugs for clients throughout Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.

Available mount styles include shoulder and gamehead mounts, lifesize and half-lifesize mammals, bird mounts, rugs, skull and antler mounts, and both fish skin mounts and replicas with custom habitat bases.

The studio reports over 30 years in business as a full-time operation, with extensive experience in all North American species, all African game including the Big 5, and a wide range of exotics personally harvested and mounted by owner Matt Yablonski.

They emphasize award-winning quality, detailed commercial facilities for every stage of the process, and realistic, natural presentations while managing a large workload.

They publish detailed price lists by category, with example prices such as $850 for a whitetail shoulder mount, $1,850 for an elk gamehead, $22 per inch for skin-mount fish (with minimums), and set pricing for birds, small game, skulls, antlers, tanning, and one-on-one training courses, plus discounts for law enforcement, active military, junior hunters, and kids’ first bucks.

Most African collections are typically completed within 6 to 12 months after receipt and deposit, and while all return times are estimates based on workload, they ask customers not to call for status updates before about 10–12 months depending on the type of mount, with storage fees and abandonment policies for work left after completion.

Additional services include rugs, tanning, hydro-dipped skulls, custom habitat and base construction, antler-only panel mounts, finished mounts that may be offered for sale, one-on-one taxidermy training courses, field-care guidance links, CWD testing, trophy scoring for SCI and Records of Exotics, and help navigating import and brokering for African and exotic game.