Heads Above The Rest is a trusted full service big game taxidermy studio located in Texas offering big game animal taxidermy services and bronze sculpture services of big game animals for over 30 years. Our goal is to memorialize your hunting experience and provide taxidermy mounting services to preserve your big game animal trophy by creating displays with life-like gestures and quality details. We specialize in big game African taxidermy mounts, North American taxidermy mounts, and European exotic-animal taxidermy mounts. We are well known for our big game life size taxidermy and our soft realistic cats. We do not do birds, fish or small reptiles; however we do mount alligators and crocodiles. Our taxidermy mounting services include life size taxidermy, shoulder mounts, pedestal mounts, wall mounts, and trophy rooms to showcase your big game taxidermy trophies. Quality in our big game taxidermy services is paramount to us. The manikins used in the taxidermy industry are very limited. We expertly modify the limited “one-size-fits-all” commercial base manikins. Our taxidermy mounts are not over exaggerated or have over emphasized muscles. Our poses of big game animals accurately reflect the animal’s behavior. The boundaries we use are based on live reference photos of the animal’s natural habitat. We build our taxidermy mounts to look alive, soft and natural, heads above the other firm’s quality! Ron Schaefer is the founder and master taxidermist for Heads Above The Rest with over 30 years’ experience in taxidermy. He has taught the science of taxidermy to both beginner and advanced taxidermy professionals in the industry. He has won numerous first-place taxidermy awards at the state and national levels over the years and has published many articles on the subject of big game animal taxidermy with prominent magazines in the taxidermy industry. Ron invented taxidermy hide glue which is still being used by industry professionals and has been for over 15 years. Always looking to improve things, Ron also formulated his own finishing epoxy! At the present time this epoxy is not available to the public or other industry professionals. You will see a definite difference in our taxidermy mounts when working with Heads Above The Rest. We continually strive to lead the big game taxidermy industry in higher standards with every trophy we mount. We are experts at preserving your trophy today and for years to come!