You're going to test my memory, Frank, I did that back in 1992.

Realistically, I think it took about 12 hours to skin the bear all the way out, body, head, legs and feet. Skinning to the end of each toe to clip the claws is a biotch. A couple more hours to flesh the hyde and prep it to send out for tanning. The tanning bill wasn't cheap as I recall, probably $400 back then. The foam body was probably $300, open mouth and eyes another $150. The modifications to the form took half a day, pasting, fitting and stiching took a full day. Detail work on the mouth took a couple hours and then there is the couple hours of misc. time in detail work as it drys over the following couple of days. The base work took about 10 hours.

I would say approximately 40 hours of labor and $850 to $950 in materials. At $100 an hour, which is what you will pay a *talented* taxidermist, your looking at about $5000 for a full body bear mount.