BIRD TAXIDERMY
 

Editor’s Note: During this article we will refer to mounting procedures we have previously published on Cally Morris’ techniques for mounting a standing and strutting turkey. Since many of the procedures Cally uses are identical for all poses, we are directing you back to previous issues. This keeps us from having to show repetitive steps and allows us to stay focused on specific information pertaining to this dead hanging pose. The skinning and fleshing procedures were explained in Issue 66, pages 54-64.

THE VISUAL DEPICTION OF HARVESTed dead game has been around for thousands of years. European art is famous for showing this ancient ritual of bringing in the game to feed family and friends. You see it in carvings on furniture and buildings, and on canvas in art galleries around the world. For today’s sportsmen, this depiction of a successful hunt is the final memory that is often captured on video film or still photography, yet not usually considered for the purpose of taxidermy by most sportsmen. ...

...Continued in the Summer 2005 Issue of Breakthrough.

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