Taxidermy on animals from Chronic wasting Disease states

[Rob]

I have a friend coming with me to Wyoming this year, and assuming he tags out with a nice pronghorn, he will most likely want a mount.

As I read page 87 of the regs, it looks like the limitations of bringing home a skull are only placed on Elk, Moose and deer - So he can bring a pronghorn head home and have that made into a shoulder mount.

Now as I read this, for deer and Elk, one has to remove all soft tissue from the skull prior to bringing it home.  That is not really practical to do in most cases, so I assume Washington State Taxidermists are not getting much business from the out of state hunters.  As I assume the Taxidermists are not allowed to take in heads/horns with soft tissues attached from the listed states.

I guess an alternative would be to cape out the head, saw off the skull plate and bring that home with no soft tissue attached.

I guess my questions in this rambling post are:

1.   Is it correct that local Taxidermists have no restrictions on taking full pronghorn heads from states like Wyoming for work?
2.   Are taxidermist prohibited from accepting full heads with soft tissue attached from listed states?
3.   How much of an impact to business has this had to local taxidermists?

[6x6in6]

Correct on the 'lope.
What you said about caping and cutting.
I have dropped off my elk heads at a taxidermist for professional caping.  They are usually very accommodating for non-residents, at least the one's who have done mine in the past.  Some, same day, some next day.  Just cut the skull plate out and pick out any leftovers.
Don't forget, your deer and elk meat needs to be boned and left in WY due to CWD also.
What general area?  I could point you to a couple different taxi's depending where you are.  PM me if you wish. 

[BLKBEARKLR]

no restrictions for antelopes.

yes we are not allowed to accept any deer that has soft tissue on it. There are places in Wyoming where the deer, elk  can be tested and they give you a certificate saying it does not have CWD, we are still not allowed to accept it in.

Does it have an impact, Not really, there are meat processors there that will do it for you, or a local taxi will do it for you. If you want your animal done by a local taxi then you will bring it to them. Some people have taxidermists there mount and ship, but that can be quite expensive. I was going to ship an elk and it was almost 700.00. So sometimes it is cheaper to have someone there cape it out for you and then bring back.

I got in 4 antelope 16 deer last year from out of state so not really an impact to me...

Joe

[Alan K]

Yep, we have ours from Colorado caped at the meat shop (former taxidermist, so he knows what he's doing thankfully!) and I bring mine back for Charlie to mount. 

[Michelle_Nelson]

Correct on the Antelope.
 
Deer, Elk, Moose need to be caped off the Skull.  Horns cut off the skull and meat removed off the skull cap.  If you want a European Mount done your either going to have to take your crab cooker with you or leave it at a taxidermist in that state.
 
Before heading over check and see if the local taxidermist will cape them off the skulls for you.  You will probably be charged somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 - $100.  Depending on who you take it to.  If you plan on being in WY for several days after an animal is harvested that you want to have mounted and don't have access to a freezer see about the cost for having the taxidermist store it for you in there freezer.  Some butchers will do this for you as well.
 
If you kill an antelope that you want to have mounted and aslo plan of staying in WY for several more days I'd probably pay to have him caped out and held in a freezer to.  Just because there hair is so fragile and prone to slippage far easier and faster than a deer.

[Rob]

Interesting, thanks for the info. 

We are only after Prong-no deer tags so for now, it's not an issue.  Appreciate knowing how it works though.

Glad to hear it is not impacting our local taxidermists in a significant way!