I'm headed to Prince of Wales island in November for a deer hunt. It'll be a pretty remote hunt with no way to get out of the wilderness until the end of the trip (about a week). If I'm lucky, I'd be interested in bringing back a buck's cape to do a shoulder mount potentially. Never had an animal mounted before and I'd be very interested in people's thoughts on the feasibility of this, and techniques for how to preserve things until I'm back in civilization.
I will have adequate facilities to keep things dry and cool, but frozen may be a stretch (though it should be pretty damn cold up there in November).
Ideally I'd like to use a WA taxidermist - is that a pipe dream (should I be looking for someone in Petersburg, for example)? Thanks for the help in advance.
