preparing a yote hide for taxidermist

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caprock

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I would like to prepare some of my next hides for a full body mount...Can anyone tell me how to do this?? i know basic skinning tech's but I would like to know the proper technique for getting one ready to mount.. Any help would be greatly appreciated..thanks , caprock
 
That's something you need to talk to your taxidermist about. There are different ways people like them skinned. To be honest, most would MUCH prefer you bring it to them whole, unskinned. It very easy to mess up a good hide if it's not prepared right.
 
caprock no offense but I am a taxidermist and if you were bringing it to me I would much rather see it unskinned. You will save your self some money also, for every goof up you make the taxidermist will have to repair. I'll give you an example, my oldest brother who has skinned a tremendous amount of game and furbearing animals watched me prep an animal one time and he was amazed, he said he would have really had it messed up if he had done it alone. It's not that we do anything magical or anything, it is just the matter of knowing the proper way. Hope this helps and didn't offend you.
 
caprock one other thing I forgot to mention. Canines are very delicate when it comes to there hide spoiling. Like on there face and inside there ears, if you are planning on getting one mounted either get it to your taxidermist asap or get as much blood cleaned out of those areas as possible and get that thing in the freezer, the blood is what causes it to spoil and the hair will slip real easy in those areas (face and ears). Once the hair slips it is not much good. Once again hope this helps.
 
caprock
the varmit nut hit it on the head. i too am a taxidermist and we all have our way of doing things. remember theres more than one way to skin a cat but only one way to skin a frog. as for the hair slipping around the face and ears if you clean those areas real good with denatatured alcohol this will help to set the the hair. if you really want to do this go talk to your local taxidermist and he should walk you through it.
best of luck
Sportingly,
Cracker
 


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