Guys, I used to work in the KC Cabelas for a couple of years. Trust me, there are probably between 60-80 deer racks mounted in there, and you can count all the replicas on one hand. And the replicas a marked as if they're replicas. It's easy to find racks that big, when you're a store like Cabelas and have a deep pocket, REALLY EASY. Just look on ebay, practically every week you have a monster authentic(non-replica) buck being sold.

Besides that, people would bring in their deer to the store on a consistent basis to sell them to cabelas. Which in return, most people would get large gift cards. There are a lot of bucks around here that make B&C that don't get recognized until the farmer decides he'd rather have $1200 instead of the rack, and sells to Cabelas. I can't speak for Bass Pro, or even some of the other New Cabela stores, like the ones on the east coast, but majority of the mounts are definately real. Anybody else that says different doesn't know know what they're talking about.