One method called "dry scrape tanning" is where you salt the hide. This preserves the hide so after the hide is salted you have as long as you want to tan it.

Tack the hide on a big board, clean all the meat off of it, and cover the entire hide with about an inch of salt. Work the first layer of salt in real good. When you scrape the salt off you scrape the membrain off too so that saves alot of energy. Just leave the salty hide in a garage untill the hide turns off white. Then scrape it. Done. Then you can go about tanning. THe easiest way to tan it is with the deer hunters/trappers hide tanning formula. The van dykes thing takes too long, and forget anything you read about "pickling" the hide, it is useless.

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