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Elk & Deer Hunting - How To Bring Your Home or Any Deer Hunting Trophy As Airline Baggage!
Trophy hunters who travel to their destinations by plane hunt always faced with the task of how their prized trophies back home safe and sound. The trophies in the most threatened damaged antlered and horned game.
With a little pre-prep work before you leave hunting camp, you can stretch your trophy deer or elk strong enough to compete with any other Samsonite luggage and the airline baggage handlers. Although this article is primarily for hunters who travel internationally, this will also work on domestic airline travel.
If the international trophy hunter, I have personally hunted and fished in 5 continents. Airline travel is a necessary means of transport for most of the destinations I have traveled to hunt. The possibility your trophy to bring back as luggage can be up to 6 months time and $ 750 or more in shipping and import-related costs. Not all countries will allow, but some do. The savings can almost pay for the taxidermy. I have brought trophies luggage from Canada, Mexico and Iceland. As of January 2010, several airlines increase limitations of the antlers as baggage packed. I highly recommend that you contact your preferred airline before you buy your tickets.
Back to the Cape, or securely frozen.
One major factor you should consider is the ability to overcome rug or frozen from the time you use your yacht for the moment to keep your home. In many cases this requires a good 24 hours before a hard freeze. The cloak or rug should be folded several times to save space and frozen solid. Hunters taking their trophies on the last day without time to freeze in the camp would consider an extra day, especially if you travel from abroad back to the United States or many Layover. There is a New Mexico law states that your cape should firmly frozen before you hit the border.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service at the Customs will check to ensure your cloak or rug is not frozen as they will not pass the blood bags and freezing helps kill unwanted bugs coming out in the United States. Place your wet carpet or cape two times in a black garbage bag and then freeze. Make sure you have a nametag on your cape. The tag, your full contact on one side and your contact information on taxidermists other. This way if your cape or rug is separated from your luggage, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife know how to contact you. Then put the frozen bag and cape in a collapsible insulated cooler. In my last trip to Mexico, I brought back the cape of a Sonora Desert Mule Deer in a 10 "x10" x9 "collapsible insulated cooler with to save space. When I Cabela's cooler in my luggage. If you bring back an elk sized animals, you need a bigger cooler.
When you home, take your frozen cape to your taxidermist right. Let the frozen if he or she is not the time to process the moment you arrive. Remember, if you come in from Canada, Mexico or another foreign country, You need a USDA Certified Taxidermist 3-177-1 indicate your form and that's where you need to take your frozen cape. This does not apply to domestic travel.
Protecting your Horn, antlers and skullcap of the fracture.
Your trophy animal horns or antlers are the most susceptible to breakage when traveling with your back to the airline. There are 3 steps to protect them as baggage when packed. You need a box with this method.
First you must protect each tine or point. You can do this with pieces of a discarded garden hose cut into a variety of 3 "to 6" lengths. You can use either a 5 / 8 or ¾ inch hose. Place the cut piece of tube until the point when it comes to a rest the diameter of the horn is greater than the diameter of the tube. Make sure that at least 1 "to 1 ½" of the tube beyond the tip and then tape the hose to the individual tooth. Repeat this process until all the teeth of the antlers are protected.
Second, thoroughly wrap the skull cap with tape. Make sure your Outfitter has boiled the skull cap and remove all flesh and brains matter. This is a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Regulation.
Third, if you brace the inside of the main span beams. In the case of a mule deer or Whitetail deer, a brace should be sufficient. In the case of a larger animal like an elk you may want to use two braces. A good brace is a wooden dowel or a good straight stick. You need to measure and cut the brace between the one or two of the thickest parts of the beam, usually between C-2 & C-3 (see photo). Once you cut your brace to measure, tape in place and then duct tape the brace too. You do not want to move the brace. Do not worry about the band, you will easily be able taxidermist all tape glue residue to remove the antlers.
Once your teeth are protected and the brace is in place, wrap the tooth and main beams with bubble wrap and tape them place. Be sure not to cover up all tags in the antlers and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife will have to see them. For some hunters, this seems a bit of an over-kill on the antlers. I know that some which have been protected only with the teeth. International hunts are becoming more and more expensive and the last thing I want to happen to my trophy of your life to broken in transit. A lost tooth or two during the handling of luggage will never be recovered, and as such can not be scored by Boone & Crocket, Safari Club International or Pope & Young. A little extra prep can assure your trophy comes home in one piece.
The Airline Check In Counter.
When you check in your luggage, ask the attendant at the check-in counter to tag your antlers with special treatment. They will do this at no extra cost. You may incur additional costs or baggage. If you are a frequent flier with elite status, the extra baggage fee can be waived. Make sure you and the related question to the counter.
Go through Customs and U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Every time you come back from another country, you must collect your luggage and go through customs. Make sure you explain your whole trophy or may be subject to seizure. Make sure all your paperwork in order. This includes your U.S. Fish & Wildlife Form 3-177-1 and the documentation of your Outfitter. The documentation should your foreign Outfitters hunting license, tag game (should be at your place of antlers and horns before leaving the country) and all the paperwork which Outfitters license and the property where the hunt takes place, were legally to hunt.
Have all these documents in your hand when you approach the U.S. Fish & Wildlife section of the U.S. Customs. The officer will appreciate it and will transfer your run a lot smoother. After passing through customs and U.S. Fish & Wildlife, you check your luggage to your final destination. If you hunt in the country (in the United States), you do not have to go through customs or the U.S. Fish & Wildlife.
Pre-trip packing list
You want a few things into your luggage if you are unable to find them or time to buy at your destination. Most of these items will fit in a large type Cabela's duffel bag along with your hunting gear. You have the following;
1. A roll of bubble wrap. (available at any office supply store like Staples or Office Max)
2. A role Duct tape (available at any office supply store like Staples or Office Max)
3. Cut several pieces of garden hose lengths. Prepare for the biggest deer or elk taken mostly in the area. This way you will not come soon. Look in the gazebo for those old leaky hose you have not discarded yet.
4. Wooden Dowel in ½ "or 5 / 8" diameter. Again, prepare for the biggest game usually taken in the area. Ask your Outfitter on rack spreads. Receive a 2 for Deer and Elk. Wooden dowels can be bought any home improvement store like Home Depot, Lowe's or Menard, etc.
5. Folding Insulated Cooler. You can find these at Wal-Mart for $ 10 - $ 15.
6. Taxidermy Tags. Ask your Hunting Consultant or create your own. I recommend laminating the tags. You need one for the antler, one for the cape and one for the insulated cooler.
7. Plastic Zip Ties to attach Taxidermy tags.
8. 2 Mil Heavy Trash bags to pack your cape or rug.
If you ask, you can Outfitter willing to take up these items before you arrive in the camp that saves you some space in your luggage. When traveling to a domestic destination hunting, you can purchase these items and have them shipped to your Outfitter. I would not recommend shipping when you go to Canada, Mexico or another international destination as it would be too expensive for shipping, customs, etc. and they can not package the Outfitter in time. Ask your Outfitter for a UPS address and send it well in advance. Make sure there is someone to accept the package. During hunting season, many outfitters in the field.
With a bit of the pre-planning and the help of your hunting Agent, you will be able to home your next deer or elk trophy as luggage and not worry about it being broken by baggage handlers or other heavy luggage to bring. You can use the money you saved to apply the taxidermy bill.
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