Save Your Capes

quest

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It's amazing how many people throw away a perfectly good deer cape. I looked on Ebay just to see what the going price was for a green cape. It was right around $140.00. Once the antlers are off you can roll it up skin to skin and place it in a plastic garbage bag. Make sure to try & get all the air out. Tie a knot in the bag to seal it. Place it in your freezer it will keep for a very long time. There are States like Wyoming that have CWD and want you cape the head out or cut the antlers off. Why not save the cape? Now if you don't want your cape you could drop if off at your local taxidermy shop where some might be willing to give you a discount on your next mount. I don't know what the law states but maybe you could sell it on Ebay and get some of your hard earned money back for your trip? Why get rid of a good cape? You might as well be throwing money away. Consider next time, the cape could possibly be a little extra $ in your pocket! Just my thoughts. quest
 
Ya- I totally agree-most all capes are good. I just traded one for 250 off a new mount. Every little bit helps!
 
Castnshoot you could get lucky and find one from a butcher shop for that price. I think its around $75.00. Lot of hunters don't realize how much a cape cost if they had to buy one. quest
 
Agreed. Any cape off a good buck is worth saving. I bought a certificate for a head mount at a banquit fund raiser hoping to draw a good tag with points in numerous states. Bummer luck, not a tags drawn.

Anyways, the certificate needs to be redeemed within a year. So I'm going to have one that my father bagged when I was 12 that has been on our wall ever since on a plaque.

However, checking around and also through the taxidermist I have the certificate for the going price is going to cost me $150.00. In the past I have saved and also given to taxidermists and recieved around $50.00-$65.00.

Always good to have a cape on hand or recope some extra hunt money or credit towards a future mount from the local taxidermist.
 
Want to chit your pants then look at the $ for bighorn capes!

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Here is an 09 buck, the cape got messed up dragging it out of a steep canyon. The taxidermist charged $50 for this replacement cape. That probably is low but $250 seems a little high.

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$250 ain't going to happen unless the taxi is an idiot. $140 is high and only if the guy knew how to cape the skin off the head perfectly and the cape is good sized, and clean (no drag marks or other significant damage) will it go for anywhere near that price ($140). At least that's the way it is around here.
 
$250 seems high. But it's not the locals that buy the capes. It's the taxidermist outta state that spend more money to purchase a cape they don't typically have access too. I can't hardly sell a south texas wt cape here in state. I scan online and find guys willing to pay top dollar for south texas capes, because their hunters didn't care for the one they killed. Vice versa, I've paid really good money for western muley capes in a raw frozen condition.

Just something to think about.



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How about donating the entire hide? There is a program that collects capes to be tanned into gloves for wheelchair-bound veterans. I guess wheelchair gloves are not usually covered by insurance. The program is called the Veterans Hide Program and has been in place since 1948, run by the Elks Lodge. The Elks leather has been used in VA rehab programs since.

I am saddened that I did not know about the program earlier, and I am going to save my hides from now on.

The contact for the Utah BPOE is Gary Nelson, if you want to find out more, or you can visit www.elks.org/vets/leather.cfm

Pred
 
>How about donating the entire hide?
>There is a program that
>collects capes to be tanned
>into gloves for wheelchair-bound veterans.
>I guess wheelchair gloves are
>not usually covered by insurance.
>The program is called the
>Veterans Hide Program and has
>been in place since 1948,
>run by the Elks Lodge.
> The Elks leather has
>been used in VA rehab
>programs since.
>
>I am saddened that I did
>not know about the program
>earlier, and I am going
>to save my hides from
>now on.
>
>The contact for the Utah BPOE
>is Gary Nelson, if you
>want to find out more,
>or you can visit www.elks.org/vets/leather.cfm
>
>
>Pred


Great idea!

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there is a very good way to run those prices right into the dirt.........let everyone start saving their capes and putting them on Ebay..



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I normally sell mine(when I get a Buck!)for 75.00-100.00 to the locals here!

Just don't like wasting anything on an animal!

Thanks to the POWER POINT Slug that REDDOG says ain't no good I destroyed the Cape this year!:D

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