i rather tan it myself....i dont think itll be TOO hard....and ive heard of pretty steep prices for tanning hides....100+ easy.....i dont need that....its going to be rugged and tacked to the wall hair side out....i just need to keep the hair from slipping.....ill look at some taxidermy suppliers...i remember seeing tanning formulas ect....i dont need it to be leather quality or anything....just so it dont rot or smell or anything...and keeps the hair from slipping....i dont know if a butcher here will take a whole deer without a hide...i may have to quarter it.....ill look into that...thats no biggie.......i could even just get the hide from them...but they charge for that.....and its a decint charge......and like i said...i love doing things myself.....anyone use them tanning formulas?? how hard are they to work with?? what about the....good ole fashioned...brain tanning?? im going to look into some stuff......id actually like to make a possibles bag from deer hide......and maybe some other stuff...hmmm got me thinkin now!! i think ill be keeping ALL my deer hides lol.....possibles bag couldnt be toooo hard...tan it all into leather.....cut the pattern....sew it up with cut strips.....hmmm im going to do some reading...anyone do anything like this..tanning hair on...and now hair off.....info is appriciated....why didnt i think of this before?? its probably going to be harder then i think lol