Postby Anatidae » Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:05 am
Keep it up, Josh.
My oldest brother produced quality mounts that enabled him to pay his way through college with waterfowl and fish (SW LA). In fact I still have a bobcat head, a drake mallard, and a specklebelly he mounted back in the early 60'.
I got interested in it myself. But after he was gone I didn't have the desire, nor anybody to model the techniques with (other than his course work from NE Taxidermy). My Mom actually tutored me when I'd get hung-up on something like a 'wing study'.........because she had been through it with one teenager already.
I mounted one duck........a drake wigeon. 'Kept it for years. 'Wish I'd stayed with it as a hobby, so I could delve into it again, now.
"I'd like to be remembered among my closest waterfowling friends (if I am remembered at all) for how I hunted them - not how many I killed" - [Jay Strangis]