About Us
Mike Levee was raised in Freeport, Texas, and grew up in a very active hunting family. After working in different fields and learning taxidermy on the side from many great taxidermist's he started his own business in Brenham, Texas.
Shortly after he moved his business and family to College Station, Texas, and opened a large taxidermy business by the A&M Campus.
In the 1980's the oil business went bust and Mike and Dana made the choice to close their doors and move
to Austin, Texas. Mike went to work as a Construction Manager and continued his taxidermy business from home, where both of his son's began to help him at a very young age. As the economy picked up, he opened his taxidermy business again in Anderson Mill, north of Austin, with the dream of moving his business to Freer, Texas, where he grew up hunting as a boy.
He started out by opening a small drop station on Hwy 44, in Freer, for just the hunting season. He began serving many of his customers from Austin, as well as many new one's. His oldest son, Shane began working with him, skinning, quartering the animals and preparing the deer hides and horns to be mounted. Customers kept asking for more items such as deer corn, feeder parts, etc.. So.....
In 2000, Mike, and his son, Shane, officially opened the doors of Freer Deer Camp & Sportsman Taxidermy, Inc. at their current location on Hwy 16 South.
Freer Deer Camp became the first hunting business to offer taxidermy, processing, storage and a full line of hunting supplies under one establishment -
Known as "The One Stop Shop for the South Texas Hunter" . We also became a full-line Purina Feed Dealer and added a ~Gift Shop~ that has something for everyone.
Our deer contest, the "Venado Macho" is in it's 17th year and has over 60 Catagories for both Men, Women and Youth. 100% of all the entry monies are now given to support a Wounded Soldier and prizes for our Contest Winners. Our Contest is for the Hunter not for us.
Taxidermy is our "Main Business" and every animal is treated as if it was our own. We take pride in the quality of our work making sure each one looks as if it were alive. Our motto is the Quality of the Product will outlast the cost.
Come visit our Store, I'm sure you will feel as if the animals are watching you.
Shane Smith - Taxidermist/Manager with Wejan and Wejan's Pup - Magnum
Mike Levee - Owner/Taxidermist
with Wejan
Wejan with Mama Levee - Owner
James Levee
