Wrong Cape
 

I had a deer mounted and the taxidermist gave me the wrong cape can the antlers be removed and a new cape installed,I don't know how this happened but I don't like it at all.

Fist question, do you KNOW he gave you the wrong cape, or do you just THINK he gave you the wrong cape?
Second question. What purpose would there be to removing the cape and mounting with a new one? It still wouldn't be the original. Maybe I'm missing something.
The answer is maybe. More often than not, the best way to go about it is to just remount the whole thing. It seldom makes any sense to try to remove a cape apply a new one. It's much faster to just start from scratch.

well i have heard of re-caping.....but i think it would cost the taxi more that doing yours...how do ya know it aint yours?

well my bucks head was the size of a bull cow and this cape is the size of a doe he admitted he mixed my cape with another head This is the mount and it looks like crap if I could say so myself,I feel like I paid enough money for a quality mount and I realize mistakes happin but my god is this the mount I am suppose to accept he never screws up on my brothers mounts,when I shot this buck he was in a full rut with a swelled neck now look at him.

also in the middle of the neck on this cape the hair is sticking up and there is no getting it to stay down have tried everything.

I have pics of this buck before it was mounted somewhere on the web I will find them and show you the original head.

unfortunately this is the only pic i can find right now

as far as markings, it looks like the same deer..how bout another pic of the mount from the otherside plz?

Honestly, that mount has WAY bigger issues than a small cape. But, the white around the eyes and nose do not match the kill pic so it is the wrong one. Did he find the right cape? If so, take it and your antlers to a good taxidermist and have it remounted. That's the best option.

Yeah its defiantly not the original cape he told me that,he doesnt have the original he put it on a different persons deer.I am thinking about waiting until I kill a swelled up buck with a small rack and mounting it myself just have a taxidermist clean and tumble the hide the guy is not a bad taxidermist if he takes his time but he sure screwed me.

well i'd ask fer a refund then, aint your, shouldnt have ta pay fer it, sounds like he needs to call the guy that has yours and make things right!!!!!

I would at a minimum ask for my money back. That isn't even a good mount besides the fact that it ain't your cape.

im just curious to what makes it a bad mount?

To me, it just doesn't look natural. Plus the hair sticking out on the throat is bad. I just wouldn't be happy with it. Hopefully the OP didn't drop a lot of $$ on it.

Definitely would ask for my money back and for the original cape.

I suppose each person's perception of "not bad" is different.

As for the cape you got, while it may not be yours, it doesn't appear to me to be that small. When you choose a pose where the deer's neck is stretched upright like a giraffe it's not going to look as big as it did scrunched down in the back of a pickup. The cape you received is definitely larger than any doe I have ever seen...ever. It is a buck cape, and I would guess probably about average size for a mature deer. Magis is right on, I would be way less worried about the color and size of the cape, and way more worried about the rest of that travesty someone calls a deer mount. ;) Sometimes it takes getting burned to realize there are differences from one taxidermy shop to another.

Its small trust me I have a 13 point right next to it and when I look at this 8 its a shame,was never scrunched in the back of any pick up,it was a buck in full rut.I didn't really get burned I only paid 150.00 to try to answer some of the other questions I am not going to bother trying to get a refund and the cape is already been put on another buck,i am just glad it wasn't a monster buck from now on I will be paying a higher price for a better quality mount.

For $150 I think you got a bargain. I can't buy enough supplies to mount one for that.

Ha wow. Don't mean to make this sound the wrong way at all and hope you dont take this the wrong way but c'mon, for 150 what do you expect? I'd say you got what you paid for in this situation.

I hate to be honest as well. You got what you paid for. Search ebay for capes. I picked on up a couple years ago. It was a large cape at 22" at the small of the neck. Got it for around $100.

I have to agree with you, that's a very amateurish mount .

I wouldn't wait until I shot another buck and use that cape. I'd have him secure a cape. And I'd want one that was the size of the original buck.

But, for $150, you may not have much leverage. A mount in my area is $500-600.

That crappy thing is, you'll never get the oringial cape back. To me, the cape is most of the animal. I know the antlers have a lot of the character, but so does the body.

Great rack....thst's a monster in my neck of the woods..I think it would look bette on s plague and a wood panneled wall

Happens to all, well...
 

A freind of mine shot a nice buck .
Same hing happened to him ,
Another friend of ours did the mount .
Not exactly pos. on the price , I think it was around $300 . also 10 years ago.
Anyways our friend ?? mixed up the hides .
He got it back with a totaly diiferent hide witch was shot earlier in the season and had a normal size neck on it compared to his full swollen neck .
I,d be pritty pissed as he was .
Well after grummping and all it still hangs in his house the way its mounted .
He was thinking the same thing , I f every a day he or a friend shot a big deer that wasnt going to be mounted to have it redone ..

$150 wow. It costs me about $100 in supplies to do a mount.

i agree with the other people, theres more things to be concerned about then the cape, the ear buts are to low, hair sticking up in the throat, brisket not centered, no muscle definition and eyes look wierd to me. but hey, you got what you paid for.

I bet whoever killed that buck cut his throat. I've seen one with the hair sticking up like that and his throat had been cut. Very unfortunate to say the least. Good luck getting it fixed...