I have a friend who does it full time. I help him out during gun season caping heads just to keep ahead, specially if its warm. I also flip hides for him in my spare time. So I am at his shop a lot. It is amazing how dumb some people are about their deer hides. Letting them hang in warm weather and skinning the deer and not taking care of the hide and expecting a perfect mount. We always tell them to treat the cape just like you treat the meat. Both of them start to rot as soon as the deer is dead.

Great post and I hope it saves someones trophy of a lifetime. If you get a big one do your homework!! Better yet, like nc said do it now!