Capping and Field Care for a Shoulder Mount!

[wannahunt]

If you can find a book called "Preparing Fish & wild Game" there is a very good chapter that covers butcher deer. Lots of good picatures. It is very close to the methods I learned from my dad. There are also a lot of good recipes.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Yeah dragging an animal that you want to have mounted is not the best idea.  Otherwise you could end up with a couple bald spots or some spots with some pretty damaged hair.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Season is just around the corner.

[270Shooter]

Hey thanks Michelle this is much simpler than what I had first thought. Hopefully I'll get a nice one this season.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Thought I would bring this back up to the top.

[FSTaxidermy]

Mercy don't let this happen to your deer guys!  21 inches of stitching!  remember to circle cut the body half way down the back!  Good luck hunting.  Duane

[mtaylor]

I wanted to try the gutless method on my buck this year. A video by Ryan newberg shows splitting the hide down the back bone. Is that acceptable for caping out a deer?

MT

[lamrith]

There is a video on YouTube. That covers gutless method in prep for taxi.  I will try and find and post shortly.

Edit: Yeah it was Randy newberg that did the video I was thinking of..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7AHA2TyqHo

[cedarriver]

Mtaylor, some taxidermist prefer a short clean cut down the back of the neck (7"-8" from back of skull down the neck), me personally, I just cut them all the way down past the shoulders. Gutless method works great for me. Be best to ask your taxidermist as far as the cape goes.

[mtaylor]

Hey thanks guys. I probably will not be shooting anything to hang on my wall this year but I was hoping if he was the right color, size, ect. That I could get a few $$ out of the cape.

Thanks again!!

MT