Bill Yox Taxidermy

20/01/2025

This is the "tail end" of one of my wall pedestal deer mounts. Which is fitting, in that I am at the tail end of our deer season as well. So, if you have plans to get a head out to me, now's the time, as I get ready to order this year's material orders. Thanks!!

26/11/2024

To my way of looking at it, a convincing mount is the result of a simple equation. Soft/subtle features + anatomy/detail = accuracy. And with that accuracy it becomes pleasing to the eye, and almost alive. Well...almost.

08/11/2024

A close up, detailed view
of some soft finish work on one of four mulies for a very special person.

03/11/2024

Here's a recently completed mount of mine. I liked it, and the hunter liked it, too. But, my camera did not. So, I got messing around with the editing. That made it worse. So I kept it simple, and trusted my taxidermy. I adjusted the contrast and simply cropped the image in a somewhat unconventional manner. End result is a realistic presentation, and hopefully, a convincing one, too.

19/10/2024

Hey, if you don't show up promptly to pay your bill and pick up your mount, I cannot guarantee that it won't up and run off. I can, however, guarantee that it'll LOOK like it could.

17/10/2024

Wait, come back, I haven't painted your nose yet. This AI program is nuts. This is a bobcat I mounted awhile back. I sent him out looking for customers like YOU.

16/10/2024

Another one of my mounts, enhanced with AI. I tried it with a different mount, AI grew it an extra ear!

16/10/2024

My goal, as a custom taxidermist, is to give a convincing illusion of movement, to suggest it could be alive. I do so with accurate anatomy and natural posing. Look what AI can do with it!

04/10/2024

I really like this mount for a few reasons. Although I did this one awhile back, it has the kind of "look" that I'm after. Just a life-like appearance, as simple as it should be, without stylizing or extras not found in live deer. Features that, while accurate, are also a bit more subtle, or soft. A look that's convincing, you might say.

22/09/2024

I mounted this beauty for a good customer and old friend. His patience pays off with these kind of bucks...and this kind of taxidermy.

22/09/2024

We can't bring them back to life. But I'm trying to get them close. There's a saying, "pleasing to the eye". I hope to please with the eye.

11/09/2024

With velvet or without velvet, your early season trophy should be mounted with detail, not without detail. Natural muscle detail and anatomy that is soft and lifelike, not harsh and overdone. Early season bucks are smooth and slick. And that look will change impressively in another month or so!

24/07/2024

Many of my customers offer me carte Blanche, granting me artistic license in designing their mounts. But sometimes my customers come to me knowing exactly what they want. Such was the case with Cody Trammell, and his first bow killed buck. Influenced by his Dad to enjoy the outdoors, he wanted this mount to reflect that. He brought me one of his Dad's flannel shirts, instructing me to mount it onto the show side of the wall pedestal shoulder mount. He asked that the pocket be present, as he plans to put his Dad's pack of ci******es in that left pocket, just as he used to. They say "every picture tells a story" and often times the same holds true for taxidermy, too.

I figured I'd add this...to those who don't know, this type of mount is called a "wall pedestal", because it's like a free standing pedestal mount style that has a smallish flat spot to still mount to the wall. So, that leaves a concave "scalloped" opened side that shows. That's what's showing Cory's dad's flannel shirt.

10/06/2024

Every once in awhile, a mature buck will, as hunters say, "daylight" for you. He'll walk right by your stand or camera in the middle of the day, disregarding the hot sun. I chose to photograph my mount in this harsh light, for that effect.

10/06/2024

Big, early season bucks seem to wait 'til very last light before showing themselves. But it's usually worth the wait, and I believe my work is, too.

30/04/2024

Every hunter should read this important article written by Dr.James Kroll. I found it on my friend Gordon Whittington Fan Page. State agencies have gone so far as to fan the flames of cwd using EHD as the accelerant. They also clearly used it to pit the hunting public against deer farmers. I believe 1000% it was done on purpose, by design. This article, so responsibly written, does not fit their agenda, but it sure could've spared us deerfarmers a lot of financial hardship, if not ruin, and from becoming the scourge of the deer world. And, literally the blame for the spread of cwd, not unlike the gnats with EHD.

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease and Chronic Wasting Disease aren't the same illness, though many hunters confuse the two. In fact, one kills far more whitetails than the other, and (contrary to what you might read online) we'll explain which.