Well, I've certainly seen worse. However, honestly it's pretty half-a$$ed. First of all, the size of the bird has nothing to do with whether or not it can be mounted strutting. A jake, {or a hen for that matter} can be mountedstrutting just as easy as a mature bird can be.The problem withthis particular mount is thatthe head, tail, and wings are all positioned in a full-strut pose while the rest of the feathers are laid flat down like a fully relaxed bird. This tells me one of two things. Either {a} the taxidermist was relatively inexperienced and simply was not comfortable with, or didn't know how to properly preen and position the feathers in order to pull off the pose correctly, or {b} he knew how and simply didn't want to undertake the extremely difficult and time consuming taskof mounting the bird strutting. In either case, IMO he should have turned down the mount, or at the very least attempted to convince you to mount the bird in a position that he was more comfortable with.