Some trophies just don’t deserve a trip to the taxidermist for a shoulder mount, yet they don’t deserve to be tacked to the tool shed, either. It’s a cinch to produce a classy mount in a single day.

Plaques, hangers and braided rope to mount your deer’s rack can be purchased from a taxidermist, many local sporting goods’ stores, or from major sporting goods’ catalog retailers. You can even custom ...

CNY Outdoors Conquest man uses 'flesh-eating' beetles for his European skull mounts of deer and other animals Published: Nov. 05, 2010, 4:40 p.m.

A Deer Lodge couple raises and sells meat-eating beetles that taxidermists and others use to clean the skulls of elk, deer and other game animals for European mounts.