WOW, I would be really pissed. To bag an elk and have it go to waste after you trusted someone with it is a real bummer. I have never dealt with a crooked butcher befor but I have seen a few that charge an additional $20 to cape it out. When I mean cape I am refering to cutting up to the last vertbrea and leaving the whole hide attached to the head. But what i don't understand is don't they have to do that anyway? Why charge for it? I am a taxidermist and half theprocessors that charge extra for this end up leaving half the neck meat in thereand it goes to waste.