To make a short story long……….

I have two deer hides. A White Tail and a Mullie. These are last year’s kills. We usually take our hides to a tannery and get a free pair of buck skin gloves per pelt…. Anyway, they rejected these two hides because they are too small. I thought about dumping them in the woods and let nature take it’s course, but I figured, what the heck, I’ll try to learn how to preserve these.

Anyway, a folded them up, skin side in, and put them in the freezer until I can get to them. That time has come. I thawed them out this weekend in the 55 degree sun and laid them out on a large plywood table covered in butcher paper. They are both roughly 1 yard in diameter and I used about 4 lbs of salt on each. This was Sunday.

The salt keeps getting moist so I added another pound this morning.

My questions are…..

1.) Should I keep salting until the top layer is dry?
2.) Should I scrape off the wet salt and salt it again?
3.) Just leave it be for a few weeks?

Thanks in advance!