The 4th Annual National Taxidermists Association Convention

The 4th Annual National Taxidermists Association Convention Dayton Conference Center Layton, Utah July 12–15, 2017 Full coverage of this event in the Summer 2017 issue of Breakthrough Magazine, subscribe today! 

Knights of the Round Table

I jumped at the chance to go to the North American Taxidermy Championship this past January in Raleigh, North Carolina. I have many supporters and co-creators of Taxidermy Direct and several were going to be present at Big Rock’s show; I wanted to meet them in person: Brenda Duvall (although I already visited The Safari Room last summer and had talked with her at...

What To Do If You Get a World-Record Halibut

Gunther Hansel, 70, a German angler, caught the largest Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglosus) yet known, and he set the world record for sea-angling an Atlantic halibut with a rod and reel. In the month of August, 2010, I received a telephone call which I will never forget, to ask if I would be the taxidermist for a 219-kg (482-pound) halibut. After I had agreed and...

Reference Study: Greater Sage-Grouse

This will be the last in our series of photo studies of North American grouse. In our first grouse study in Issue 123, we also had 2 pages of reference on sage-grouse and 4 pages on ruffed grouse. Additional photos of ruffed grouse start on page 70 of this issue.   GREATER SAGE-GROUSE (Centrocercus urophasianus) are the largest grouse in North America. They were...