How To Cape Your Trophy Pronghorn with Randy Newberg

[@dannyb2783]

Great video Randy! I'm putting together a article on planning a first time pronghorn hunt for eastern whitetail hunters, and this video will definitely be referenced. thanks for all this great content.

[@Fresh_Tracks]

We have tons of images, Dan. Reach out if you need some.

[@LordViettner]

hey, i know it's been four years, but do you by chance have that article? I'm from MI but have moved south for work and have put in for pronghorn hunts in a couple states, would be super helpful!

[@michaelnelson1911]

I really enjoyed watching you perform this job. I have been finishing up an antelope taxidermy project from a couple of years ago. One of my really good high school friends called and asked me a while ago. When are you going to finish mounting that antelope that you shot a few years ago? He said, order a form and then bring it over and we’ll finish it up. As teenagers we had both mounted bird, but I had never had done a big game animal. But Joel had done a lot of them; and he said he would help me get it done if I would bring it over. Which he did. What a great friend. You always say that you good friends make the best hunting buddies. I am sure that Mike really appreciated you showing him how to cape out an antelope. Thanks for sharing.

[@sancharino6878]

Dont know much about Antelope, but that thing is huge!

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Yeah, it was big.

[@hunterfishergather6879]

Good Job Randy. Saw a taxidermist video on you tube who also recommended starting from the mouth. Makes sense.

[@markmitchell7609]

Some great tips there, thank you. I have been afraid to cape the head, but will give it a go next time 👍🏻

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Pretty easy once you do a couple of them. Try it on a buck you might not be too worried about if you make a mistake.

[@herberttsosie509]

Awesome job now I know how cap antelope

[@UsherLinder]

Whoa! This is really, really good: thank you ever so much for this, but! I think I am going to need to let someone else do this for me. Thanks!

[@Fresh_Tracks]

It is a ton of fun for me.

[@davidsanders3028]

Good video. Can't wait till I get an antelope tag.

[@specfever2]

Randy: "Did you get that, Michael?" Michael: "Yeah" Us: "We can't!"

[@hunterfishergather6879]

Randy, are you still using the cow "decoy"/cover to stalk on antelope?

[@MasterTheHunt23]

That is an awesome buck! Great video

[@Fresh_Tracks]

That one is bigger than most, for sure.

[@Yankeefan78471]

Randy what pack is sitting in the truck? Is that a subalpine metcalf?

[@mattschindler1171]

Great video. Randy I was expecting to see you salt the cape. Is there no need if storing in a cool place? Or does it depend on how soon you can get it dropped off at the taxidermist?

[@geoffreyfisher7434]

I really appreciate these videos. Very helpful. Although a little more focus on what the knife blade is doing instead of the back of Randy's hand would be great. Nice watch though.

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Good input.

[@jad2484]

Hey Randy! thank you for the very informative video. quick question how come you didn't apply salt to the cape prior to rolling it up?

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Most taxidermists prefer you not salt it if you can get it to their shop in a day or two.

[@jad2484]

Randy Newberg, Hunter thanks for the reply randy. you have replied to every question and comment I have sent you. also I have noticed you reply to a lot of other commenters. thank you for your hard work and dedication. I've learned a lot from you. Jason Dowd.

[@BSJBill]

I have a vital, How many replacement blades do you go through to do an antelope? Thanks in advance!

[@Fresh_Tracks]

I can easily get an entire antelope done with one blade, unless I make a mistake and try to twist it.

[@darylbernal245]

I know it's off topic, but I was just watching the latest live stream and heard you go over the 5 seasons for elk. I've never heard you talk about deer in the same regard, specifically mule bucks. Do they follow a similar "season change" as bulls but at different times?

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Deer can be put into the same five periods, but those will fall at different times on the calendar.

[@ryanjazdzewski9464]

Hey what ever happened to doing a beaver trapping video series this past winter?

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Ran out of time, due to tax season. It's still on the list for this spring.

[@kylemurray5728]

Mike just disappeared at 3:45 lol.

[@jessewostenberg6482]

Kyle Murray did you see the face he made right before...lol!

[@kylemurray5728]

yeah

[@billpeirce7127]

What did that buck score? Also wear and what unit did u get it? How much did it cost to?

[@prestonprieto9946]

Hew randy I shot a 5 point bull during my utah rifle elk hunt on public land.After I hit him he ran over the ridge onto private property. What do I do

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Bummer. I would call the landowner. If they will not grant permission, I would call the local game warden.

[@Nightmarehc130]

only thing I would recommend is NOT TO CUT all the way down the neck....cut just enough to get the head out and your taxidermist wont have to sew up the mane ....you get a much nicer mount with out that seam....ALSO DONT ROLL IT UP.....the face with STAY HOT and you will get hair slippage....just fold it over and put in colder....cant tell you how many times we lost a customers cape due to hair slippage on the face due to them ROLLING the face up in the middle of the cape...especially early hunt like BEAR, and Antelope.....

[@Fresh_Tracks]

Your points seem to come from experience. Thanks for watching.

[@garrettviguerie8804]

couldn't you just bring the disconnected head and cape to the taxidermist for this?

[@latorgator23]

Yea, I have the same question.

[@kennethhoffman2521]

My question too

[@tfred2129]

Horrible job filming boys!

[@jago76]

Why would you want to kill such a graceful animal?

[@Fresh_Tracks]

To eat it. Same reason you, me, and others will kill a chicken, a cow, a fish, etc. Or, the same reason others hire someone else to kill said animal - to eat it. If an animal is going to die so I can eat, I want the blood on my hands. I don't want to pay someone to do the dirty work of killing for the food that feeds us, you and me. It helps remind me that when I eat meat or produce, something died directly or reminds me that our collective demand results in plowed up wildlife habitat that permanently displaces wild animals that once lived there - displaced forever. When some don't want to take those responsibilities, I completely understand. It is a powerful emotion to reconcile that something died so you can eat, either directly or indirectly. This direct connection makes me constantly cognizant of human impacts on the natural world and drives me to do what I can for the habitat of all species, and I do what I can for conservation, with my money, my time, and advocacy. My best effort to answer in a paragraph.

[@jago76]

Thank you for your thoughtful answer. I would much rather see our diminishing wildlife alive--and am supportive of land trusts like the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club which fight to protect our natural lands. Many people have never seen a Pronghorn running free, which is sad. Personally, I rarely eat red meat, largely because of health concerns, but as I say, that's a personal decision.

[@wolftrackphotography6414]

Might I add this quotation from the RMEF: "In 1950, only 12,000 pronghorn remained. Thanks to hunters, today there are more than 1.1 million."

[@jago76]

According to my research the population is between 500,000 and 1 million. The estimates of pre-European populations is 20 to 40 million. I know many hunting groups have done much for wildlife conservation (the Elk Foundation, Ducks Unlimited.) Today many people enjoy observing diminishing wildlife rather than killing them.

[@kodyvanpelt6895]

Brian, Land development and human expansion is the biggest negative impact on America's wildlife. Hunters manage the population to a healthy level determined by qualified wildlife biologist and officials. Quotas and limits are set to keep a population at a healthy level to prevent over population affecting the heard in a terrible way (Diseases and starvation.) If populations begin to decline to a dangerous level (due to many factors, hunting being the least impactful nowadays) then the limits and quotas are properly adjusted and followed by law abiding outdoorsmen and hunters. Look of the term "compensative loss" in wildlife. Most game harvest and quotas are set around that to keep the habitat below its carrying capacity. The main idea of compensative loss is that hunters and other predators are harvesting a number of "Animal" that would not have survived that year anyway in their population. Meaning that "x" number of "animal" would die due to disease, starvation, cold, accidents, et. By harvesting "quota #' of animals we lesson the stress on the remaining population giving those animals a greater survivability rate. If 10/100 antelope were going to not make it through winter, and hunters met a set quota to take 7/100 out of the population then the effects on the population was minimal because thats 7 animals out of 10 that would die int he population anyway. hence the loss was compensated. I know the odds of hunters or predators taking the exact animals that would not survive is low, however the drop in population would give the remaining population greater resources, less congestion and likely hood of disease spread, thus ensuring the winter loss would be much less. And honestly I feel better knowing that animal was humanely dispatched and the meat enjoyed and appreciated than that animal starve, freeze, or get sick and die. Im glad that we share the common ground of caring deeply for and appreciating America's wildlife, however I do not feel that hunting is anywhere near the biggest issue facing these animals when you consider the habitat loss they experience for our own population growth. Keep speaking out for what you believe in because that is what is great about this country, I just want you to glimpse at the other side and know that hunters as much if not more than others care about our wildlife and want nothing more to see it be healthy and flourish. Thanks