46 inch prarie rattler by a 12 yr old

Well, the show is done, he did very well, he scored a 94 with it, and the judge noted on the score sheet "excellent work, you really need to move to proffesional" LOL, when he found out he was 12 he was really shocked, the kids are lumped in with the "amatuer" mounts for judging, and they dont know their ages when the score them. He won highest scoring youth mount, best of show youth mount, and a blue ribbon with his snake, and missed "best amatuer" mount by 1 point, to a racoon lifesize mount by a 30 yr old guy LOL there were around 20 peices in the division. I want to think Mike Beckman, Dan Hudzik, Tom Voyer, and Perry Yeager for all their help thru my sons process of mounting this peice, he is very excited to start his next one, i think we have created a monster. Russ