What is CAPEING?

OK, hunters, I need a definition please.
What is capeing (an elk, deer, etc)?
Thanks in advance!
John
colobbfan

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Dressing a game animal in a particular manner for trophy mounting the head. Commonly you leave a lot of hide from the back and front areas of the body attached to the head (sort of like a cape or mantle). Then you take the whole thing to a taxidermist for the fine work. It is important to remove the head and hide without puting in extra holes. Caping knives are generally pretty small to aid in this operation. To fully remove the hide from the head requires smaller instruments, much like a surgeon uses. I think that this also qualifies as "caping".
 
Thanks Jeff
John

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'Caping' also refers to the covert sewing of many pleats in another's cape. These will deploy simultaneously, breaking the velcro seal which holds them together when the caped one reaches a certain speed, and forming a drag-parachute like object.

This has happened to Vampire Gerbil many times over the ages. If your friends are in a friendly frame of mind, they also put a velcro link into your neck fastener. If this is not done, the severe yank has been known to have deleterious effects on the caped one's neck.
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Walt
 
I believe it also applies to a phenomenon that occurs when Batman jumps off a building and deploys his cape as an airfoil.

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I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
 
Good Evening,
It is I,
THE GREAT & POWERFUL CAPED ONE!!!!

Here's an example of caping:
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Wondering when the howling will ever cease,
I remain,
VG

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Capeing.....is kinda like Pantsing, but done with the cape....like VG is showing above...

G2

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...it's an older knife knut taking a cruise around 'Good Hope' or 'Tierra del Fuego.' He leaves the gym, the Edge-Pro and his adoring fans far behind, searching for than perfect chilled glass and some sipping Mescal...--OKG
 
You may wonder why the Caped One has such a small cape. It is my fault. A sort of 'Spinal Tap' Stonehenge moment. I asked my daughter, Judy to make a cape for Vampire Gerbil. She has had some peculiar requests from her darling father, but this took the cake. She did so, at a considerable amount of work. When she finally sent the cape to VG, he was ecstatic. I was unable to convince my daughter to make a full size cape, but VG assures me that this one works just fine, as conservation of mass does not apply to vampiric changes of species.

Walt
 
Vampires? Gerbils? Your DAUGHTER? Man, this is too freaky for me! My adopted daughter is a cop, and she gets bent out of shape when I ask her where all of the speed traps are. The icing on the cake came for me when I realized this is set amongst the 'knife culture,' and at some moment in time, your daughter was in a room with weaponry and a vampire getting his inseam measured! Having said that, just where in California (besides church, job interviews, and honeymoons) does one wear a vampire's cape?--OKG
 
Man! someone asks a serious queston and gets an answer - a good one in fact about preparing a hide for taxidermy and the thread goes nuts - I'm out of here with prayer !

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Dear Revvie,
Good Evening, etc.

Sorry that I seem to have been the cause of (an attempt at) humor. I am truly ashamed, and take complete and total responsibility.
That said, it's all DOCTOR WALT'S FAULT!
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VG,
No prob! I got an answer to my question
John

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Thread drift......what's a moderator to do?

Paracelsus, wondering around unsupervised and unlocked
 
Hiya ParcelPostRaisinBran!
Leave it be.... it's suffered enough that it'll die soon enough.
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Cleaning teerth with Spydie Civilian for gratuitous knife content,
I remain,
VG
 
Old Knife Guy: let me allay your fears. You made a number of mistakes in interperting the data. First of all, my daughter is safe in Colorado, and has been for some time. I e-mailed her my request for the cape, and after several subsequent e-mails, questioning my sanity and general mental health, she agreed to make the cape for VG.

It should have been obvious from the picture that she has never met VG in the (tatooed) flesh, otherwise the cape wouldn't have been so small. I suggested that she should make a full size one (not realizing the exception to the conservation of mass that vampiric conversions enjoy). As my daughter so succinctly put it; 'So, what; you said a gerbil; you really meant Richard Gere?' Or something to that effect. Further more, VG is safely in Nevada, and so far as I know, has never made it to CA. Therefore, while you have a vivid imagination, Old Knife Guy, your mental pictures do not tend to rely too much on factual data.

Regarding cops, I was once pulled over on I-5, a freeway which goes down the interior valley of California; it is quite straight and the terrain flat for the most part. The CHP got my driver's license, proof of insurance, registration, and my business card, identifying me as an ER doc. He ticketed the guy he had pulled over with me, and let him go. He then came back to my car, handed me back my documents, and said, 'Listen, doc, watch out up ahead about 30 miles; they have a fixed wing aircraft and six black and whites working both sides of the freeway. Have a nice day!

Revvie; sorry that you are disappointed that there wasn't more information about mutilating dead animals for display purposes. Hope the prayer does you some good.
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To Walt Welch: I can sleep better now. The tattoos shouldn't have thrown me, but they did. As a former motorcyle club member, it still freaks me when I see twenty-year old girls at the gym with more skin-ink than the guys I used to ride with! As for the knife angle, I cannot help but think that many knuts dwell on the 'weapons' aspect of our hobby, and the 'bad boy' persona of guys that have good stuff. If I've learned anything now that gray hair has set in, it's that it takes more brains and energy to build something than to destroy something. Even I smirk at the concept of a 'vampire gerbil,' and I enjoy humor; but you know that somewhere out there is a lurker convinced that we are all blood guzzling slashers.--OKG
 
Revvie, sorry, but it only went south, After the real answer was furnished, then us crazy guys just went with the flow....
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G2

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I don't hunt but wanted to know what capeing was because:
1. You hear such & such is a good "capeing" knife
2. Please see these two threads:
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum52/HTML/001024.html

Sorry John, I don't know why, but that link to the Syperco forum refuses to work with our UBB code. I've tried several times. But I can not make it work, so its gone.

John
colobbfan

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Edited to remove the scrolling screen of death
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[This message has been edited by Paracelsus (edited 11-22-2000).]
 
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