With the deer season over and temperatures perfect for hanging and aging venison, local hunters soon will be deciding what to do with their bucks' antlers. It's a disrespectful waste to just discard a ...

Steve Stahl climbed up the thin ladder to the second story of his two-car garage and then walked into a specially built room where his dermestid (flesh-eating) beetles are kept. He lifted a screen off ...

They’re cool looking, take up less space than a shoulder mount and cost a fraction of more traditional taxidermy work. As a result, European mounts are growing in popularity with deer hunters as a way ...

DEER LODGE — Frank Slaughtner and his son, JR, of Deer Lodge are avid hunters and over the years had a number of European trophy mounts done. In 2004, they purchased a starter colony of dermestid ...

Bill Graves' garage is a long ways from the great hall of an European baronial estate. There is no huge fireplace where a flickering fire lights up the walls revealing medieval weapons of war and ...

Following directions on the Quick White to make the paste, I brushed the entire skull with the mixture, wearing rubber gloves as I did. I was a little unsure of the outcome during the process, because ...

When a Caledonia man found a dead buck on the side of a road, it didn't seem all that special, but when he began cleaning the skull to mount it, he discovered something very unusual. "This one was hit ...