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Presenting the 2017 World Show in Photos

Presenting the 2017 World Show in Photos

     Presenting the WTC and WFCC is a photographic challenge. After every World Championships we consider the different options available to us in showing photos of the inspiring work of the competitors as well as events and camaraderie between those who had the opportunity to attend. Each show we have so many attendees come up to Kathy and me and our staff...
July 31, 2017 0 Comments
REFERENCE: Sharp-Tailed Grouse

REFERENCE: Sharp-Tailed Grouse

In our continuing reference studies of the grouse of North America, the feature species this issue is sharp-tailed grouse, with a article by Dave Luke on mounting this beautiful North American gamebird. In my first introduction to grouse of North America in Issue 123, we published a few select reference photos of sharp-tails. In this issue we present the rest of those we...
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Mounting a Sharp-Tailed Grouse

Mounting a Sharp-Tailed Grouse

     Viewing the various prairie grouse photos, it became evident that both greater prairie chickens and sharp- tailed grouse were actually the two main varieties of prairie grouse that an American taxidermist would encounter. With this in mind and knowing that bird taxidermists across America would all eventually encounter these specimens within their...
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Joe Meder Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Joe Meder Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

     Joe Meder of Solon, Iowa was awarded the fifth World Show Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent 2017 World Taxidermy Championships®. For those who were not able to attend this recent event, we are offering this short biography which was presented at the awards ceremony reviewing Joe’s notable achievements and contributions to the taxidermy...
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Painting a Permit

Painting a Permit

Permits are essentially shallow water, schooling fish, occurring over sandy flats and reefs in depths of from 3 to 300 feet of water. They travel in schools of six to fifty or more fish, though occasionally they may be seen in the hundreds on wrecks and reefs. I have 30 different molds of permits,...
July 28, 2017 0 Comments
REFERENCE STUDY: Part 2 - European Roe Deer Facial Features

REFERENCE STUDY: Part 2 - European Roe Deer Facial Features

     During my years as a commercial taxidermist I have mounted most of the game animals hunted by my North American customers from around the world. In saying that, I could count on both hands the number of roe deer I received. I am not sure why, since roe deer are an extremely...
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Understanding the TAX in Taxidermy

Understanding the TAX in Taxidermy

Anybody and everybody who practices taxidermy knows that the word TAXIDERMY is derived from two ancient Greek words: TAXIS, meaning movement; and DERMA, meaning skin.      I’m finding...
REFERENCE STUDY: Prairie Chickens

REFERENCE STUDY: Prairie Chickens

     In the last issue we featured a 14-page reference guide of the major grouse species of North America. Over the next several issues I will target some of the common species that taxidermists are...
Mounting a Prairie Chicken with Eugene Streekstra

Mounting a Prairie Chicken with Eugene Streekstra

     After enjoying the myriad of live reference pictures in Breakthrough’s recent photographic reference articles on the grouse of North America, created and written by publisher Larry...
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