Paul Cales won Best in World Whitetail Deer with this mount at the 1997 World Taxidermy Championships®.

WHITETAIL TAXIDERMY

Competition
Open-Mouth Deer
Part 2 of a Four-Part Series:
Molding and Casting

by Dan Rinehart
With Paul Cales

Welcome back! In Part 1, "Molding and Casting," we had just removed the "rough" casts from the silicon molds. In review, we produced four separate casts from the four separate molds which we created previously. The four casts which we created are: 1) half upper palate ending before molar "crusher" teeth, including all papilla and lip-line to hair; 2) full upper palate excluding the papilla and lip-line, including the molar "crusher" teeth and upper palate back to throat; 3) half lower jaw including the papilla and lip-line to the lip hair; 4) lower jaw and molar "crusher" teeth just the lower jaw and no papilla or lip-line.

Four separate casts to complete the mouth of one deer seems a bit excessive. Nonetheless, if you remember back to Part 1 "Molding and Casting," you will recall that it was necessary to separate the castings into smaller, more manageable units so that proper attention could be given to the more delicate features...

...Continued in the Spring 2001 Issue of Breakthrough.

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