Montana Taxidermists Association Convention 2010

[Ken Edwards]

March 25th through 28th, 2010
The Montana Taxidermists Association Convention & Competition
Red Lion Colonial Inn, Helena, MT
Contact Paul Klar at 406-436-2145, Bruce Babcock at 406-752-4504, or visit the MTA website.

[jasonb]

Thanks Ken.

[cattrax]

Just a few short weeks away. Shaping up to be a great show. Don't miss it. More info at:

www.montanataxidermists.com

[jasonb]

I am working on my piece now.  Can't wait.

[cast_n_blast]

Just a couple days away. Doing a couple of finishing touches, can't wait
James

[jasonb]

Got my piece all finished up today and will crate it up tomarrow for the trip to Helena, I am excited to meet you all and look forward to the good show.

[jasonb]

I finished my piece yesterday afternoon, and I didn't get as much done as I really wanted to, but I am satisfied with my work.  I am looking forward to meeting everyone at the show and I would like to wish everyone good luck this weekend.  And remember it is not about the ribbon, it is about the association.

Everyone that is close to Montana should try to make it to this show next year, the judges were great and the assocation really put on a GREAT show and I would like to send out a big thank you to the Montana Taxidermist Assocation for all of there hard work.

[nate]

I love the great state of Montana! Keep trying to talk my wife into moving there. Wish I was going!

[Matt]

Good luck Jason, I am sure you will do fine. Ours is this weekend, and I am really looking forward to it. Godwilling, I won't be missing anymore of our shows!

[Skywalker]

Go kick some a$$ Jason! Good luck.

[double shovel]

We made it here and the steer did in one piece as well.There is a lot of nice work here,the quality level is up for sure from last year.Good to meet the nice people again.There are more entries than last year,I think the competition will be stiff but fun.

[Nyati]

Good luck guys.

Can't wait to see the pictures

[jasonb]

Yep double shovels Steer is going to be kicking some azz here and there have been many comments on my Javilina, all I'm hearing is good stuff.LOL  It really is a nice show, and Ken I hope you can make it next year because you are definitely missed this year.  Judging is still going on so I am going to go see how much longer we have to wait. 

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes, I hope that all who are attending there respective state show worked hard, and learned much, as well as win big.

[Mary Krueger (rugmaking)]

Ken I hope you can make it next year because you are definitely missed this year. 

What do you mean by that Jason?   My husband is judging mammals this year and javalina's are our specialty specimen here in Arizona, not any that I know of in Canada...lol.
 
Wish I could have come along to meet you and the other taxi-netters attending and reconnect with some old friends that I know are there also, but someone has to stay behind and run the shop!

[Patrick J]

Mary I met your husband and he is a very nice guy.
We are having a blast here. Last night we bellied up to the bar with some real nice guys as well. Taxi.net was represented by myself, jasonb, double shovel, cast n blast and IDbatman. Couple of others there as well like Craig Lewis of the UTA, Tony Finazzo and Ralf but damnit I already forgot his last name.

This year the Montana Trappers Association and the Montana Outfitters Association have booths here . Always nice to see different organizations supporting each other.

Here are just a few of the hundreds of pictures I have taken. Plenty of room in the conference center to space things out this year and I really think that helped make individual mounts stand out


































And one of what I thought was the neatest drawings ever