Buy plenty of Reference Material!!!!!!!

I'm not saying he can't learn, because I hope to never see some of my earlier mounts again, but all of the mounts need a tremendous amount of attention to reference material. The ears, eyes, lip line, nose pad, etc. of the deer need a lot of work and the only direction I know to give is buy reference and learn to read it. WASCO sells a great WTC video of Cary Cochran explaining how to read reference. I'm sure part of the problem is lack of experience with the actual process, so they also cary several WTC videos on mounting whitetails. All videos are not created equal and you can seldom go wrong with the WTC videos.

The birds need a lot of work and looking at any photo of a flying bird would allow you to see the birds aren't even close. But, don't give up. He will have to overcome his lack of experience with the taxidermy process to improve and learn to read reference. Do not take this personal. In order to improve in Taxidermy you must be willing to take constructive criticism.

I can't say it enough. Reference, Reference, Reference!!!!!!!!