campergeek
Member
Please forgive me for silly questions. This year will be only my second deer-hunting, and hopefully my first for bagging a deer. To date, my only experience "after the kill" is helping a friend drag his 180-lb. buck out of the woods. As I consider the upcoming season, I have the following thoughts:
If I get a nice buck, I may have the head mounted.
I'd kind of like to keep the hide and maybe try my hand at tanning it myself.
I really don't want to butcher the deer myself. Maybe in the future, but not this year.
So... after the deer is killed, gutted, dragged out and checked in, what is the appropriate sequence of events. Can I request for the meat processor to save me the hide and to skin out the head appropriately for mounting? Or do I first go to the taxidermist and then take the skinned carcass to the meat processor?
I'm just trying to plan ahead... and think optimistically.
If I get a nice buck, I may have the head mounted.
I'd kind of like to keep the hide and maybe try my hand at tanning it myself.
I really don't want to butcher the deer myself. Maybe in the future, but not this year.
So... after the deer is killed, gutted, dragged out and checked in, what is the appropriate sequence of events. Can I request for the meat processor to save me the hide and to skin out the head appropriately for mounting? Or do I first go to the taxidermist and then take the skinned carcass to the meat processor?
I'm just trying to plan ahead... and think optimistically.