Good advice Richard! It is tedious work to cape out an animal, but practice does make perfect.
As I sit here typing, I am looking up at a caribou mount on the wall. My guide on that hunt (many years ago) caped it out with his ax. With my help, he had it caped out and quartered up in short order so we could start the long trip back to camp. If it can be done with an ax, we mere mortals can surely learn to do it with a knife.
And that said, I have run into a few taxidermists that won’t accept a job unless they do the caping as there can be cut throughs unseen they don’t want responsibility for.
Dennis will be missed!
