i need a cape for a whitetail
12-02-2012, 08:08 PM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 1
i need a cape for a whitetail
Hey guys I'm new to this site but I am trying to find a new cape for the buck I just shot. Any ideas on where to look? My taxidermy lady is just getting started and is trying to find one also. We need one with a big neck. The deer I shot had a stab wound in His neck so that one couldn't be used.I live in Illinois if that helps. Also how do you post a picture.
12-04-2012, 11:42 PM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Harford County Maryland
Posts: 274
Originally Posted by WV Hunter
Check with your local deer processors, should be able to find one cheap or free. ebay has them, but you'll pay.
Also, a stab wound should be repairable by any taxidermist.
Also, a stab wound should be repairable by any taxidermist.
12-31-2012, 05:16 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Southeast Missouri
Posts: 2,178
Personally I'd leave the Stab Wound on the finished Mount...thats what gives a Deer their Character in my opinion!
My Taxidermist supplied me with a *Free Cape and all I had to do was find a replacement Cape for it in the next year or 2...a Hunting Budy shot an Odd-Racked Buck and gave me his Cape and I was back at the Taxidermist with my replacement Cape that same year!
The reason I had to get a new Cape was someone had shot a very nice 10-Point Buck I had trail camera pictures of said Buck for about 3 years of Him growing over that time period and I had Bow hunted him that last year.Well as stated someone had shot him during the Nov. Rifle Season and I found him dead on our Farm 3 months later and he was pretty well all Skeleton except for some hair on 3 of his legs and a little on his head so I called the local Game Warden and got a Permit/Reciept to keep him and decided to have him Re-caped back to his former Glory!
My Taxidermist supplied me with a *Free Cape and all I had to do was find a replacement Cape for it in the next year or 2...a Hunting Budy shot an Odd-Racked Buck and gave me his Cape and I was back at the Taxidermist with my replacement Cape that same year!
The reason I had to get a new Cape was someone had shot a very nice 10-Point Buck I had trail camera pictures of said Buck for about 3 years of Him growing over that time period and I had Bow hunted him that last year.Well as stated someone had shot him during the Nov. Rifle Season and I found him dead on our Farm 3 months later and he was pretty well all Skeleton except for some hair on 3 of his legs and a little on his head so I called the local Game Warden and got a Permit/Reciept to keep him and decided to have him Re-caped back to his former Glory!
