Russell's main competition was a fellow Scotsman named Peter Duncan Malloch who unlike most carved fish in two-thirds body form. Born in 1853 of humble parentage in the village of Almondbank near Perth, he did not have the advantages of higher education and spent his youthful days in the woods and fishing in the River Almond. With his brother James as his assistant, he started, at age 18, a small taxidermy and fishing tackle business in Perth, where it remained under the name of P. D. Malloch, until 1981. Malloch's was one of the top, if not the top, game fishing and gun shops in Scotland.

Malloch's had three makers. The early maker (1900-1922); the middle maker (1920 -early 30's ) and the late Malloch maker (1934 - 1952)

Peter Malloch died in 1921 at the age of 68.