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Brittney Morlan, Josh Wedmore, Josh Knoebel and Curran Munzer are the team behind Curran’s Custom Taxidermy in Springfield. The shop opened in 2008. Aliya Hall

One of the biggest misconceptions that Curran Munzer hears about taxidermy is that the process involves ”stuffing” an animal.
”These are not stuffed, they’re mounted,” he explained. ”The term ‘stuffed’ comes from before we had forms. They would literally, after it was all skinned out, they would sew the mouth…