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Title: Second Nature Taxidermy School!
Post by: bowtech721 on April 25, 2010, 05:44:06 PM: Well I just rolled into where im staying here in missoula mt for my taxidermy school and im getting excited for class tomorrow! Just wanted to say thanks to bucklucky for hooking me up with one of my specimens :) Im gonna try to take some pictures along the way while im here and post them up!
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Post by: LittleJohn on April 25, 2010, 07:45:58 PM: Have a great time. I LOVE Montana. Keep us posted on your progress!!! I'll try to keep the river company while your gone. :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL:
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 25, 2010, 07:52:07 PM: ya it should be pretty cool... the school will take i think 6 or 8 people per session but i found out theres only gonna be 3 in my class and there are three instructors so maybe ill learn something :chuckle:
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Post by: rasbo on April 25, 2010, 08:13:17 PM: thats really cool..enjoy and have a blast
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Post by: NWBREW on April 25, 2010, 08:14:00 PM: Awesome. Good luck buddy. I know you'll enjoy it.
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Post by: Elkstuffer on April 25, 2010, 08:41:35 PM: Take lots of notes and video if you can. Have fun!
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Post by: bucklucky on April 25, 2010, 08:50:34 PM: Right on man!! Have a good time.
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Post by: bowhunterforever on April 25, 2010, 09:52:52 PM: Thats awsome,Good luck :tup: Let us know how good the school is?
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 26, 2010, 07:00:56 PM: Well so far so good... one guy didnt make it so its just two of us with two instructors :) Just in my first day ive learned that there is a lot of hide prepping to do for a good mount, I wish i wouldve learned to sew before i got here! :chuckle: I figured out that theres a lot of different ways to potentially cut/poke yourself doing taxidermy :chuckle:
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Post by: bucklucky on April 26, 2010, 07:27:08 PM: Quote from: bowtech721 on April 26, 2010, 07:00:56 PM
Well so far so good... one guy didnt make it so its just two of us with two instructors :) Just in my first day ive learned that there is a lot of hide prepping to do for a good mount, I wish i wouldve learned to sew before i got here! :chuckle: I figured out that theres a lot of different ways to potentially cut/poke yourself doing taxidermy :chuckle:

You'll figure out how not to poke yourself eventually...........NOT :chuckle: Your prep work can make or break your mount. Did you wet up that Blacktail cape yet?
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 26, 2010, 07:37:15 PM: ya I did that today and am gonna mess with it tommorrow although it didnt have like really anything to fix on it unlike the bull im doing which i sewed on all day today :chuckle: I didnt know there could be so many little holes on an the ear seams! which forms did you say you liked the best for blacktails? i couldnt remember...
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Post by: bucklucky on April 26, 2010, 07:45:29 PM: Id use a lancaster blacktail form out of reaserch. I think that cape will go on the 220 series if I remember right.That cape would probably fit one of the McKenzie 6 3/4 blacktail forms also. Thats a nice form .
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 26, 2010, 07:52:08 PM: ya my instructor is really high on mckenzie and there is one it will fit but there was limited poses... like only a basic left and right if i remember right... If he hasnt ordered the one we looked at for it today ill check out research... thanks
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Post by: bucklucky on April 26, 2010, 11:25:42 PM: Thats all your gona get with a descent blacktail form, left or right semi sneak ;). The other reasearch form are junk. The only one worth a darn in Research is the lancaster and it is just OK. Id go with the McKenzie on that cape, especially for a first mount ;)
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 30, 2010, 08:56:46 PM: first shoulder mount
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 30, 2010, 09:01:43 PM: gotta post these one by one for some reason
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 30, 2010, 09:03:21 PM: its not done yet but coming along :)
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 30, 2010, 09:53:15 PM: Quote from: bucklucky on April 26, 2010, 11:25:42 PM
The other reasearch form are junk.

That is a sore subjet I really don't like to talk about. :chuckle:
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Post by: bowtech721 on April 30, 2010, 10:14:03 PM: why what happened?
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 30, 2010, 10:44:26 PM: lookin good
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 30, 2010, 11:13:21 PM: Quote from: bowtech721 on April 30, 2010, 10:14:03 PM
why what happened?

To make a long story short I started mounting a deer at 11am. By 10pm I was so frustrated and pissed off that I pulled the mount apart and cut the head off the Reasrch form I was using and than off a McKenzie form I had and put the McKenzie head on the Reasurch form. Than started pretty much all over with the mounting. Didn't get done until 4am. I just had to buy one one of those forms and try it out. It was just one of those days. :chuckle: The heads just suck!

I will probably buy another one here in the next month or 2 and try it again. Everytime you try something you learn something. I think I have figgured out what I need to do with the next one. With out having to cut it off. :chuckle:
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Post by: bucklucky on May 01, 2010, 08:06:19 AM: Thanks for the pics bowtech!! Lookks good !

Mich.............ah never mind , no comment :chuckle: :chuckle:

OK maybe one comment, I told you those heads were junk :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on May 01, 2010, 11:26:36 AM: Quote from: bucklucky on May 01, 2010, 08:06:19 AM

Mich.............ah never mind , no comment :chuckle: :chuckle:

OK maybe one comment, I told you those heads were junk :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

I know but. . . .

Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on April 30, 2010, 11:13:21 PM
I just had to buy one one of those forms and try it out.
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Post by: bucklucky on May 01, 2010, 11:55:45 AM: :chuckle:
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Post by: Huntmossberg8 on May 02, 2010, 10:20:55 PM: Bowtech721,
The black tail mount is looking great, sounds like a blast wish i could have gone there with you, looks a lot better than the books i have been reading at college. If you get a chance you should post some pictures of that bear you were telling me about.
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 03, 2010, 04:16:03 PM: I dont really have any other than this one but you can kinda get the idea about the color... it"ll make a pretty cool rug other than its rubbed a bit
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 03, 2010, 08:31:59 PM: few pics of my open mouth bull in progress...
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Post by: LongTatLaw on May 03, 2010, 08:48:03 PM: looking awesome brother...keep the pics coming...lookin great
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Post by: muleyhunter on May 03, 2010, 09:24:29 PM: Michele, The only thing good about research is the quick mailing and cheaper mailing charge thats about all I can think of right off the top of my head :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Post by: Huntmossberg8 on May 03, 2010, 09:27:39 PM: That Bull, is looking really good, keep it up, and keep posting pictures. Make sure you pay attention and take good notes, because i don't want my taxidermist falling short when it comes to my mounts ;)
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on May 03, 2010, 09:31:20 PM: Quote from: muleyhunter on May 03, 2010, 09:24:29 PM
Michele, The only thing good about research is the quick mailing and cheaper mailing charge thats about all I can think of right off the top of my head :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

LOL.
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Post by: bowhunterforever on May 14, 2010, 04:01:50 PM: Any new updates bowtech?
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 14, 2010, 07:12:51 PM: ya its going good! Ill try to post some more pics in a bit... havent got a ton of pics of my own as the instructors are taking them that they will give us on a disc at the end. I will downsize some and post them up! Spending too much time on the river after class to mess with the pics too much :chuckle:
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 14, 2010, 07:57:08 PM: Lifesize bear im working on. I almost had a heart attack when some of his hair started falling out but its under control now :chuckle: This form had to be modified quite a bit to fit... i think i cut like 3 inches of length out and like all the legs were WAY to big. Im glad i got to learn how to make it work though.
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 14, 2010, 07:58:54 PM: This is the only pic I have of the bobcat i did. The finish work isnt done but its coming along :) I mounted a pheasant to go with it.
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 14, 2010, 08:00:09 PM: A little lunch break trout action :chuckle:
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Post by: bowhunterforever on May 15, 2010, 01:33:30 AM: Looks like your having a blast and learning :tup: Keep the pics coming
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 20, 2010, 08:39:01 PM: heres a repro steelhead that i did... so far fish are one of my favorite things :) Lots of things i know i can do better next time
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on May 20, 2010, 10:21:52 PM: bowtech721 are you developing a new found respect for the art and why taxidermists charge so much? :chuckle:
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Post by: Jeremy S on May 23, 2010, 10:22:49 AM: Awesome work! Keep it up.
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Post by: bowtech721 on May 24, 2010, 10:03:52 AM: Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on May 20, 2010, 10:21:52 PM
bowtech721 are you developing a new found respect for the art and why taxidermists charge so much? :chuckle:
ya for sure :chuckle: