yes u can go to school like i did and waste 10,000$ or u can learn from books whick would be extremely hard with no experience or u can go to a local taxidermist and ask if u can just kinda watch and learn and maybe help him out for free. Or u can find a really good taxidemist and offer him money for a 1 on 1 teaching. Thats what i wish i would have done. Sure u learn from the best at a fraction of the cost of a school and its 1 on 1 and u just cant beat that. That is the way to go. I just loved the experience of being at the school. So much fun, got places to hunt in 6 different states now so it turned out for the better.