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

WHITETAIL TAXIDERMY

Competition
Open-Mouth Deer
Part 3 of a Four-Part Series:
Molding and Casting

by Dan Rinehart
With Paul Cales

Thanks for coming back for the continuation of competition open-mouth whitetail instructions. We are already halfway through this comprehensive four-part series that started with a fresh whitetail carcass and continued through the original creation, placement, and coloration of upper/lower palates and tongue. In simple language, we show you how to re-create the mouth detail of an open-mouth whitetail from A to Z. Better yet, these are the techniques that Paul Cales used to win Best in World Whitetail Deer the 1997 World Championships. Years of research have resulted in a very detailed and efficient series of procedures that yield the highest quality reproduction interior mouth ever. As I'm sure you are aware, for every one technique that works, you have tested five (at least) techniques that don't achieve the desired result. Thus, the direction that can be gained through an instructional series of articles, such as this, can put you years ahead in your developments of techniques for re-creating a competition open-mouth whitetail deer.

As they say at the track, "Gentlemen, ladies, and taxidermists--start your engines!" It's time for the third running of a four-event championship series that will help you land in the winner's circle at your next taxidermy championship. Buckle-up and hit the gas because here we go!

1-2. The upper palate created in Part 1 still has the mold-release agent on the outside surface of the cast. If this mold release agent is not removed, it will be impossible to apply...

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

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