Or you can take the real easy way out and ask your taxidermist where he sends all his hides to get tanned at. Sending a hide off to get tanned or just having your taxidermist doing it will cost about $80 or so, don't ask for a rug, just an indian style tan. Hog brains in the store are about $3 here. You can use ivory soap and mayonase to tan hides too. I've used egg yolks to tan small game hides. It works great. You can use neets foot oil and rub that in the hide. I've never seen that done so I can't comment much on it. It's not much work if you know about what you are doing. The most easy way to learn is try tanning a squirrel hide. These take about two hours. The salt saves alot of energy getting the membrain off. Rabbit hides are very thin but fairly easy to do. I would not try a deer untill I did a squirrel or possum or coon or something. It's great fun and the hide lasts a lifetime.

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