Originally Posted by
cayugad
Another thing.. normally when I get to them to skin... they are frozen solid. The worst part of skinning a deer in the northern country is.. when they are frozen, my fingers go numb from the cold of the meat and the hide. Also the hide is a little stiff by then.
We can skin frozen elk, iff the shooter skins the knees. The rule in our camp was, if you shoot it, you peel the skin off the knees before you head out from the kill, then and only then will we help you pack your elk out. Skinning the frozen knees is a real pita. When the kill is frozen, we almost always build a fire to warm them frozen hands. Another help is, if someone remembers a bottle to share whilst skinning and quartering, however, this can, and has led to problems.
These memorie, make me wonder if i will ever again, help pack out an elk.