smoke phase tom
A 17 # tom from a fall hunt this October 2008
close up of Pullins smoke phase head
25# Josh Dresbach. Any body that hunted spring 2008 knows how hard it was to call in a tom ,let alone a brute like this.
another angle of a beautiful bird
Very nice half strutTom
Look at that beard !
Fighting birds
how would you like to see this opening day?
Beautiful 25# gobbler Matt's first also.In anice half strut .
Flying Jake
Spring 2008
Gobbler on the run
Pedestal Mount
Merriams
A few airbrushed heads , I use only freeze dried.
A good brother in the Lord Mark DePugh.
23# roosted gobbler
My cover photo ,this bird epitomizes the full strut tom in early spring.
Good example of full strut bird
Close up of freeze dried head
gobbling tom
22# Merriams
Merriams from local ranch
pine cones set off this montana bird
count the beards on this fighting posed 22 Lb.
this is half of a fighting pair of turkeys the other being a 17 Lb. jake poor guy.
walking gobbling
another view of a Ross Co. monster 25lb plus
A nice flying mount
LOOK at those double beards
ODNR calls this a "smoke phase" ONE beautiful bird.
Ray Pullins bagged this nice Tom
McCann's tom
I think all turkeys are beautiful
gobbling strut
New York boss gobbler
another nice shot of Mike Smith's New York bird
I call this a pre fight pose
three bearded Ohio tom
''protected '' for now!! see the sign?
flying bronze tom
a nice Merriams from New Mexico
big proud merriams
count the beards on this one!!
is he ready to fight or run!!?
the little guy is the hunter nice flying mount for Owen Sheetz
strut merriams
Russ Welch gobbling turkey from the roost
yeah I know it's not a turkey ,gotta wait for a ''exotics ''category!!
shot by a Wisconsin hunter , EMU
cast bill and head look closely at added third eyelid
emu with pedestal base
close up of airbrushed freeze dried head
super flying mount for cabin ceiling
following pictures of rhea legs and skinning and mounting process, bone is taken out ,a foam copy is carved skin is boraxed and foam is glued ,then sewn and toes are injected then posed .This will be a running rhea mount
foot of a rhea skinned
here's a better pic of bone removed
Now to copy that bone in foam
and here it is carved all that shrinkage and grease is not a worry now
yes I know darn fuzzy pictures ,but here is the sewing process started
and here it is completely stitched up this bird will have a heavy rod inserted into foam after drying ,The mount will be suspended off the floor in a running pose
the red is 2 part epoxy putty ,after hardening I airbrushed the feathe quill was used to impress detail back nto the puttied area!
the completed mount [rhea] the little ''hump'' on the back are scapularie feathers raised up ,the wings are slightly spread when running to balance the bird
hanging now because of lack of room ,plus it allows air circulation to dry him better
4'6'' tall
