  Normally, standard (ungauged) skyrmion masses are proportional to the
coupling of the Skyrme term needed for stability, and so can grow to infinite
magnitude with increasing coupling. In striking contrast, when skyrmions are
gauged, their masses are bounded above for any Skyrme coupling, and, instead,
are of the order of monopole masses, O(v/g), so that the coupling of the Skyrme
term is not very important. This boundedness phenomenon and its implications
are investigated.
