Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Willow Valley Trophy Show

This past Saturday I had to man a display at the Willow Valley Trophy Show in Pincher Creek, this was a great opportunity for me to meet a lot of the local hunters, ranchers and folks that enjoy our great outdoors. I was asked a lot of questions I had no clue how to answer!


Here I am with Jeff Cox at our booth, there was an estimated 800 people that attended the show.


Some of the awesome mounts done by a taxidermist is Lethbridge. This is a ruffed grouse, beside it he had a couple of starlings trying to get away from a kestral, the neat thing about these was he hide the wires that held them up in stocks of grass.


A huge cougar mount between a big Cadomin Ram and a pair of Great Grey owls.


Those owls and a nice white-tail buck.


A massive Cadomin Ram, notice the white around the base of his horns, it looked like wool!


Some of the winners displayed at the front of the hall, I think the biggest elk was 373 and it was taken south of Lethbridge, near the US border along the Milk River.


The pronghorns and white-tail horns on display, there is also some cougar and black bear in there as well.


More white-tails and some huge mulies.


Only a few moose racks and some more huge elk.


This was kind of neat mount, a white-tail buck bedded down.


A cool full mount of a lynx grabbing a sharp-tailed grouse.


A full mount of a coyote laying down.

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