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Taxidermist Dan Rolbiecki Explains

January 11, 2010

The 21-year-old Fountain City resident and owner of Ridge Top Taxidermy wades through the fur, the bones, the skin and the viscera in a centuries-old process.It isn’t just about stuffing animals: It’s about preserving stories.
I took a wildlife class in high school. For the next two years, I worked with the instructor without credit. I [...]

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Choosing A Taxidermist

January 8, 2010

We’ve all heard the horror stories about how a friend shot this beautiful, enormous whitetail. He takes it to a guy down the street that assures him that “he can handle the job” of turning this thing into a life-like wall-hanging trophy. The hunter finally gets his deer mount back and swears it is not [...]

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Choose A Taxidermist You Can Trust

January 5, 2010

Today’s sportsmen like to keep the memory of an especially exciting hunt alive by decorating their home or office with a mounted trophy. Follow this advice and you won’t be disappointed when that crate finally arrives on your doorstep.

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Q & A Of A Taxidermist

December 28, 2009

We spotted taxidermist Kyle Turner, 45, plying his trade at the shop he owns with brother Drew on Pine Street in Hattiesburg.
So what are you doing here? We are mounting fish. This is a red-eared shell cracker. We’re working on about 45 to 50 fish.

How hard is mounting fish, compared to other work you do? [...]

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Q&A With Taxidermist Ray Copeland

December 23, 2009

Hometown: Gadsden
Occupation: Taxidermist/shop owner
Place of employment: Copeland Taxidermy
Number of years in occupation: 20 years
Q. What exactly do you do on your job?
A. I do it all when it comes to taxidermy. I skin, mount and preserve animals for people who hunt them and want to preserve them. I start off by skinning them and filling [...]

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Leon Pray

December 21, 2009

Back in an article I wrote on May 29 I was telling of some interesting things I had run across in my reading of some old Dowagiac Daily News papers.
One little item had mentioned Leon Pray, who was a well-known taxidermist at the Field Museum in Chicago.

 

 

I can remember Wally Luthringer telling us boys how [...]

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Henry’s Taxidermy

October 9, 2009

Henry’s Taxidermy is got it going on. From antlers to sheep horns including painted turtle shells Henry most likely has it . The picture below is Henry’s latest addition to his long list of items for sale at the time of this posting. Henry himself claims to offer a wide range of Taxidermy Related items, [...]

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Art Is Often The Stuff Of Taxidermy

February 10, 2009

From a stand in his rural Clay County yard, John McFarland observes the way a deer turns its ears and where the whites of its eyes lie.He watches the grass to see where rattlesnakes hide or what raccoons are eating and, when he is satisfied, he takes it all into the old pole barn [...]

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A Degree In Law Leads To Taxidermy

February 1, 2009

Tire Swing Taxidermy is Marty Ramsey’s new business in downtown Earlham.
The name comes partly from the Jimmy Buffett song, “Life is Just a Tire Swing,” and partly from Ramsey’s younger daughter Madison.
When Madison was little, she noticed not one but two tire swings in a neighbor’s leafy front yard. She decided any family with [...]

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Love For Hunting Helps Business

January 30, 2009

For more than 30 years, Kenneth Post, the proprietor of Precision Taxidermy, has been up to his gloved elbows in the kills of hunters.
Post is a full-time, award-winning taxidermist. His success, he says, is due in large part to his own love of hunting.

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