Gallery: A Backstage Pass to the Super Bowl of Taxidermy
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Carl Tregre from Houma, Louisiana unloads and prepares his big horn sheep "The Ghost Dancer."
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Jim Allred from North Carolina, drives his show piece, a white tailed deer, into the expo.
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Tony Grabowski (on the ground) and his crew mounting a Doll Sheep outside the expo center.
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Carolin Brak-Dolny, Frankford, Ontario, Canada.
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Two unknown participants take a closer look at winner of "Best of Category, Collective Artists, Recreations and Replicas."
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Bill Richardson from Texas snaps a photo of Big Foot.
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Two male African lions fight at the truck entrance at the expo center. Made by Dakota Taxidermy, the lions won "The Chairman’s Award."
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Jeff Edmondson from McDonough, Georgia, prepares a white tailed deer with a toothbrush.
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Daniel Meng from Bismarck, North Dakota, puts his prize winning leopard – "Best In World, Large Mammal" – in the trailer after the show.
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Big Foot being hauled into a trailer.
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Dakota Taxidermy and Faniel Meng (green shirt) put their white tiger into the trailer after the show. The piece won second place in the Carl E. Akeley Award.
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