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Custom taxidermy · Peculiar, Missouri

Wild turkey
mounts.

Maybe he came in at full strut. Maybe all you saw at first was a head above the grass. Caleb Roseburrough builds your mount around the moment you remember.

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Spring turkey intake

A side view of a full-strut gobbler with a bronze fan and lowered wings on a low woodland base
From Caleb’s shopFull strut / Low habitat

01 Choose a pose

How’d he come in?

Start with the way the bird carried himself. A turn of the head or a wing held low can change the feel of the whole mount.

A full-strut turkey viewed head-on with a broad, even fan and a bark wall base

Full strut

Fan open, chest out, wings low. Head-on, you see the symmetry of the fan. From the side, you see how the feathers stack.

Caleb’s upright turkey mount with a raised head and low tail on a black pedestal

Standing alert

Head up, tail down, and a little tension through the neck. Think of a bird that’s stopped mid-step to look your way.

Caleb’s flying turkey mount with wings spread above its wooden pedestal and competition awards

In flight

A broad wingspan and a head reaching forward give the bird a direction. Caleb’s flying gobbler won State Champion Bird at the 2025 Iowa Taxidermy Show.

02 Choose a display

Where’s he going?

Show Caleb the wall, shelf, or corner you’ve got in mind. How you’ll see the mount helps determine which way the bird should face.

Wall mount
Use a limb or bark base to give the bird a perch without taking up floor space.
Pedestal
Give the bird its own spot and leave room to see the fan and feathers from more than one side.
Custom habitat
Bring in something you remember from the hunt: a rock ledge, spring wildflowers, or the cover where he first stepped out.
See a custom habitat up close
Two turkey mounts on a branching limb above a doorway, one gobbling and one facing out
Customer display / Two birds on a single limb

03 From the workbench

Look him in the eye.

Look at the blue around the eye and how it gives way to red down the neck. Caleb paints the head by hand, then gives the feet and the way the feathers lie the same attention.

A hand holding a painted turkey head, with brushes and supplies behind it at the workbench
At the bench / Head paint
Close-up of a finished turkey’s amber eye, pale blue skin, and open beak
On the mount / Eye and beak

04 Start a commission

Tell Caleb how the hunt went.

Text him a photo of your bird and what you’re picturing for the mount. Caleb accepts spring turkeys taken from early March through early June. He doesn’t accept fall turkeys.

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