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Facebook hasn't been updated since Nov. 2015.
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Here's your Bexar County small claims link...
http://home.bexar.org/jp/smallclaims.html

I dropped off a Sika buck to Bradley Garcia at Texas Big Game Processing in February of 2014 in the After Hours dropoff. He had previously done 3 other shoulder mounts, as well as processing for multiple animals. After a few weeks I received the meat from my Sika, however I still have yet to receive the taxidermy work. I have asked multiple times throughout the process if he still has the animal, and given him multiple opportunities to just shoot me straight and tell me if it's lost, missing, anything to set the record straight. Instead he has strung me along with empty promises including the latest; that the buck was finished and hanging on the wall in his shop. Even though it was "finished", he somehow couldn't make it by there Friday morning when I was passing through San Antonio so that I could pick it up. I went by the shop anyway, and could see clearly inside the shop through the glass, and although there were other mounts on the wall, and others in progress, there was no Sika. He has lied many times throughout the process, not only about the progress being made, but about things like when he sees/reads text messages, since the idiot apparently doesn't realize he has his iPhone set to show "read receipts".

My question is this...what recourse do I have to reclaim my property? I assume I could go to small claims court, but would that need to be filed in San Antonio? Is this something I could contact a State Agency? I have tried to remain very calm and civil about this entire matter, which is very difficult for me to do, but I want my animal and so far I have done a good job of it. It's time to accelerate the process however, and I don't want to just show up on his doorstep. I'm not the person that could handle that situation in the right way. What else can I do?

He was evicted from the location on Nakoma, and opened a new one in Adkins, TX which is basically San Antonio, just outside loop 1604. That's the location he's operating out of now, and the one I stopped by on Friday AM.

I think showing up on his doorstep is the best thing you can do. Tell him you don't want to listen to any bullsht and you want your animal. What's wrong with that?

Where exactly is his shop and what is name of business ? I live a few miles from 1604 and 87 area. There is a new meat processor opened up on FM775 near Centerpoint, I believe the name says CE processors but no one knows anything about them.

Yes, a small claims court filing must be done in the County of his residence.

IF you have no documentation that he agreed to 'mount' your animal, then I suspect you'd lose very quickly in court.

Though it can be shown he received the animal (meat resource), processed it and was compensated (consideration exchanged), IF you don't have something stating he agreed to do the taxidermy work, then you might as well give it up (from a legal standpoint).

Of course...you know he is 'stalling' hoping you will just 'go away'.

Where exactly is his shop and what is name of business ? I live a few miles from 1604 and 87 area. There is a new meat processor opened up on FM775 near Centerpoint, I believe the name says CE processors but no one knows anything about them.

It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant many taxidermists are. I completely understand that there is a slim profit margin with everybody wanting 1979 prices (try running a hunting operation).

But the basic business rule of NEVER over promise and under deliver is totally lost on many of them.

And here's the kicker, they also don't understand that 90+% of hunters will be patient for good work IF you deal honestly with them.

If they'd just text people back (I understand they can't answer phone calls all day long) and tell them the truth they'd stay out of almost all of their drama.

Text is unprofessional. We don't text our clients at work and if we over promise and under deliver there are monetary ramifications. The problem is the customer has little recourse in the matter.