John,

Thanks very much for your help with this.......I'm more at home with the technology of a bolt action rifle than I am posting images!

Erik,

Yes we can do that but a lot obviously depends on what you do with your skin after you've shot the Elephant. As the factory is here in SA the easiest thing for us would be if you sent the skin to an SA tannery/taxidermist and from there to me here in White River. Then we can use the same CITES licence chain. If you have it shipped to your home country then you have to get a new export licence etc to ship it to SA and then we use that licence to get the re-export licence.

As each item is hand made we can line it with anything you like. We do offer "off the shelf" items but the whole idea of what we're doing originated with my getting so fed up with seeing clients backskins etc just left as the client couldn't think of anything to do with them......hence the fact that we can hand make individual items to order using the clients backskins if required.

As many forum members will be aware, I'm (actually we) a great believer in best possible quality. We only use the best areas, best PHs, offer the best possible customer service etc etc........This belief in being the best has also been carried onto the leather goods. Even small things such as the brass fittings are all solid brass and not that cheap plated rubbish one so often sees in gunshops etc nowadays.

We've been experimenting with a "cut away" waistcoat type thing that is pretty much finalised and for those hunters who are sick of hanging everything except the kitchen sink on their belt this really is the dogs doo-dahs. I've got photo's of it but they're not really satisfactory - so I'll try to take some better ones and hopefully John will be kind enough to help me post a couple.