Adam Zwick stood back and squinted at the elk mount taking shape in his rural Sauk Rapids taxidermy studio ... shape that they're supposed to be. The deer can rotate their eyes just like we ...

Rachel Windish with her taxidermy story of a coyote ... the firsts came tumbling out: first coyote mount, first one shot. Everything in the display, other than the fawn — dirt, branches ...

Oh, and that word, "stuff," just about makes Crain shudder when she hears it used to describe taxidermy ... traditional deer heads is being slowly displaced by the full body mount.

Several mounts displayed at Randy Bowe's taxidermy shop. Bowe works on fish, birds, deer, bears and elk. The price of a traditional, shoulder-mounted deer, from the neck up, is approaching or over ...