First Deer Mount

[philray]

Heard from my taxidermist a couple of weeks ago and he asked if I drug my deer out of the woods. He said that there were spots were the hair was pulled off. I didn't notice any spots when I dropped the deer off and I don't see any in any of my pictures. Really starting to worry. I asked him if it would look bad and he said it would kind of look like a bruise. Is it normal to have this happen?

[hoosierhunter]

Go see where the hair is missing and then compare it to your pictures. It terms of time don't worry about that. My guy takes anywhere from 7-14 months to get mine done, but he's part time.

[RTF]

Well of coarse you drug your deer out of the woods. Over 90% of deer that end up at the taxidermists are "dragged" out of the woods. This is something that would have been brought up when you brought your deer into the taxidermist. Unless he is a backyard hack that does this on the side for beer money, he would have looked at your cape when you brought it in. This is the first golden rule that we follow when a customer brings in a specimen. That is we look it over from top to bottom. This way we can let the customer know if we see any foreseen problems arising. My guess is that he sends his capes out and you now have somebody elses cape or he does his own tanning using who knows what and is now having hair slippage problems.

If you clearly don't remember the cape being damaged and the pictures show no signs of damage, then my guess would be a poorly handling of the cape. You need to go see these so called spots and then make the determination if it could have been caused by you.

[RackBlaster]

More than likely if you took him your deer head frozen , he probably did not let it thaw out completely before he started on it and tore the hair .