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Got one in today and thats how they skinned the deer 😡
I took one in from Alberta and Kansas a few weeks ago…It was spit like that
I hate them split D. We should charge a extra 100.00 for a long incision! Have a few customers that go to Canada and they come back split. I think maybe it was just an old school thing because I have never seen an advantage to it.
In Kansas where i go hunting a guy processes deer for people and that is the way his does his! It is quicker for him to skin them that way he said, but sure makes for a long sit with needle and thread. I skin my own when i go,
July 22, 2011
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I see shipments come in CFD sometimes 50 to 100 or more capes split down like this from the same taxidermist. So it’s not just processors, the one in the pic was skinned by the hunter himself, so he probably didn’t know any better.
If it is because of old school ways, thats is to bad, think of all the time wasted from not willing to learn something different. That is unless someone can tell me an advantage to this process.
……..and I’m not saying everyone has to do bur to bur like I do, but there is no need what so ever to split it all the way down.
Lazy?Or that’s all they know ? There’s you a DVD to mass produce D ! Tube skinning .
October 24, 2012
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I worked in Texas for 3 years as a guide. One of the outfitters I worked for there was also a Taxidermist in New York. He did a ton of work as a full time taxidermist there and made a very good living at it. He was the first guy to teach me how to completely cape out a gamehead. For what ever reason, he taught me to cut them just like your picture. Through the years I would imagine I cleaned and caped 250-300 gameheads that I cut just like that, not all for him. Now that I know better….there’s no telling how many times I got cussed out by the taxidermist that got my capes!
I do all my deer like that (long) I’ve done some short and find the extra 15 mins sewing to not be a factor. With a long incision I feel I can get a better fit for the form and get more movement out of the skin. In any competition I’ve entered I’ve never been dinged for my seam and when done right you will not notice the seam at all. Definately not trying to be disagreeable with anyone but it works for me (after more than a 100 or 900 deer, probably more). Whatever works for you, so many ways to do something and I think it’s #1 how you were taught and #2 what you like.
July 22, 2011
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John, thanks for having the nads to chime in here. Most people would be afraid to reply, because they are use to getting their @$$ handed to them if they disagree on another site. I always like to hear someone else’s opinion, especially if they differ from myself.
I find it interesting that you say you get a better fit with the long incision, because I can get a better test fit with a short incision without having to pin the skin in place. It’s funny how different people have opposite results.
I do agree there are more than one way to skin a cat, or in this case a deer.:biggergrin:
Just curious, do you sew your capes up first, (like I did the one in the pic) or do you sew them up on the form?
Most of my cape’s are cut long lke this when I get them so I have to take the as they come. Anything I do myself is short y, my question is why do most tanneries charge extra for short y, are thay that mush harder to deal with? Cindy
July 22, 2011
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C flwrs wrote: …..my question is why do most tanneries charge extra for short y, are thay that mush harder to deal with? Cindy
Cindy the reason for the extra charge is, there is more man hours in short incisions.
Imagine someone sending in 100 w/t capes, all cut short incision, salt dried with the hair out. You have to turn them all to shave them once they are rehydrated, once shaved, pickled, tanned and neutralized they go on to the dry area where they are caged to get the debris from the hair, that means turning them back hair side out. Once cleaned they need to be turned back skin side out to be oiled and hung to dry. They are then drummed to break and stretch. After all that, they are then turned hair side out to be caged one last time and then hand combed. Then when seperating orders(we can run 100’s of w/t capes from several different customers in a single batch) they need to be turned skin side out to read the punch code in the skin, then they are boxed with hair side out and frozen if wet tanned or put on the finish room shelfs if dry tanned, waiting for payment and to be shipped.
With all that said: as of 9/1/2012 Carolina Fur Dressing has simplified their pricing on deer capes, it is as follows, no matter the skinning process used.
up to 22″ = $49.75
23″ and up = $54.00
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I get a ton of them cut all the down here in Wisconsin, most come from processers. When I have called them to ask them not to it that way I have been told that it takes longer to tube them out and they pay the skinners by the hour so that is how we do it they say. Most customers that call to ask me how to do it, I tell them how I want it and then I get 10lbs of neck meat attached to it cuz they did’nt want to cut the cape. And yes I do sew up my capes first.
D. thanks for the explanation, always wondered what the extra charge was for but it makes sense now. Cindy
I cape out all my deer . Our deer processor is good at capeing up to neck. I would charge to sew up a mess like that.
Yes I hate this D. Had three Canadian deer last year come in like that. Had a guy this year going to Canada told him to tell the outfitter how to skin it and to tell him if he cut it all the way down the back that his taxidermist was going to charge him a 100 dollars to sew it back up lol. We will see he is there now and he took a nice Mule deer yesterday and still has a Whitetail tag. Gary
