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, Sika, 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. 

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 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 10hr round trip delivery so we will consolidate until a full load can be taken, this may be up to 2 months during peak season.

Crating trophies

Crating trophies


Crating trophies

Getting Meat home to the USA..

A question we are often asked is: Can I take my meat home? Yes, it is possible to take some of your meat home on the plane with you.  However we can not ship meat to the US for you. There is some simple documentation to fill out and we can prepare and freeze some of your meat for you. You will need to bring some cooler bags and bare in mind the 50lb weight limit per checked bag on your flights. Here is the link for the US import documents or we can provide for you when you are here. Cost for cutting, trimming, vacuum seal packaging and freezing is $1.50 per pound.