How To Cape A Deer For Mounting

With a little practice anyone can do it.

How to cape a deer for mounting. First use a sharp knife. This step by step guide will be a good resource to follow when attempting to cape for your first shoulder mount. Next slit the skin around the legs just above the knees and then make a cut on the back side of the legs that meets up with the initial body cut. A good taxidermist will be able to fix most things but the mount will always.

Measuring for shoulder mounts. Recently mark from valley taxidermy uploaded a step by step guide for shoulder caping deer prior to taxidermy. As a general rule if you leave a least 6 inches behind the front legs you will have plenty. When you field dress your deer that you want to take to the taxidermist to shoulder mount be sure you leave enough cape to work with.

With marks permission i have recreated the procedure and added some comments for the sporting shooters web subscribers. Cut around the knees and use the white line on the front legs as a guide come up four inches past the leg crease and cut around the back of the deer. Just take your time and go slow. When field dressing your deer be stop cutting when you reach the chest bone on the under side.

Now that the skin has been fleshed and tanned the deer head cape is ready to be mounted. Sportsman channel 11489 views. That provides extra skin for the taxidermist to glue around the form. Dick ferguson our guest and also a taxidermist shows the quick way to get a cape off a deer.

Cassie tucker 22462 views. How to cape a deer for a shoulder mount duration. The first thing you want to do when caping out a head for a shoulder mount is to make sure you leave enough skin. Skinning and caping the whitetail deer for a shoulder mount.

The skin will need the mount that will shape the skin and will require trimming and sewing of the tanned and prepped skin. How to cape any deer for a shoulder mount. Hunting with randy newberg shows you how to cape a deer in prepartion for a taxidermy shoulder mount. The cape should start by making a cut through the hide behind the front legs at the midpoint of the ribs encircling the body.

The key to a great mount is proper cape preparation this begins as soon as the deer hits the ground. 4 dvd western set.