We did some taxidoimy this year......
As usual, Ivan has gotten me into yet another endeavor. He got a buck with his bow in December and considered getting it mounted to put in the Pumphouse. Well, it costs anywhere from $250 to $375 for a taxidermist to do it so Ivan thought "if those clowns can do it, so can we". Time to buy instructional videos. I also got a buck in late December, so we had two heads with hide attached in the freezer. We did the skinning of the heads, fleshed the hide and tanned them in a solution of wartbane and eye of newt, or something like that. Then we got all the supplies, a head form, glass eyes, hide needles, mache mix and plenty of beer. We made some work stands for holding the head form while working on the mount. Custom designed by Carlo and fabricated by Ivan, Jerry and myself. Good thing for stupid friends, hey Liz? We felt ready to start and did Ivan's first. It came out pretty good, amazingly enough. Later we did mine and I think it looks great from a distance of one foot or more away. There are some slight flaws that we will try not to do again. Looks like we will end up with a mount each year if we want, as it will cost about $50 each to do. We're taxidoimy dudes!! I'll throw some photos in when I get a chance.
Carlo
posted by Red Green @ 9:41 PM
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" - can anyone post a note???? " That only works for comments. The posts themselves are made by the blog owner. However, there can be team blogs with multiple participants, if people want it that way. Might be interesting to set one up that way that anyone can post on. It would be better than people sending emails with photos from trips, for example. Everyone can see them without downloading a bunch of jpeg's. For now, the Ottertail will probably remain as is........
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Looks like a quite and peacefull place. Do you do any target practice there?
There seems to be a large dewlling in the back ground of one picture.
A homestead? If so could you post pics of that as well?
Booghost, who are you and where are you from????
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