A friend of mine's father lives in Montana anddoes elk that he attaches square pegs to the antlers and makes square holes in the mold. He then is able to insert and remove the antlers from the actual mount.He does this mainly because he ships a lot of mounts back east and it's easier to ship smaller packages. I know it doesn't sound like it might work, but he takes great pride in how he's doing it. I've seen a few of his elk and they really turned out nice. I would imagine this could be done with whitetail with smaller pegs and wouldn't need any re-stitching of the cape.