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Week Four: 8/11/08 - 8/15/08
Students started week 4 learning how to use the airbrush, & did some preliminary airbrushing on mammals.
Instructor then gave demonstrations on bird skinning, fleshing, tanning, tumbling, positioning, mounting, and feather placement. Students followed by skinning, fleshing, & prepping pheasants & mallards for mounting.
On Friday, students mounted pheasants, and will wait until Monday to mount mallards. In order to cover as many procedures as possible, students are using original heads on pheasants, and artificial heads on mallards.
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Airbrushing inside coyote rug mouth. |

Skinning ringneck pheasant.
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Tweaking wing position. |

Skinning pheasant.
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Washing birds.
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Positioning & feather placement. |

Learning airbrushing. |

Skinning ringneck. |

Wing placement. |

Skinning out pheasant neck. |

Fleshing pheasant. |

Feather placement. |

We love the die-hard note takers!! |

Skinning pheasant. |

Wing placement. |

Skinning ringneck. |

Skinning mallard. |

Placing feathers. |

Basic bird anatomy. |

Skinning demo. |

Skinning demo |

Starting birds. |

Tips from instructor. |

Gameheads from previous weeks drying & waiting for final grooming. |
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