Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Florence Wisconsin Florence WI
Posts: 197
RE: Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
hang the deer upside down, trim around the tail and hind legs, grab a handful and pull....
Peel the hide away from the rearend, enough to put a baseball sized rock in the hide, tie a cinch knot around the rock in the hide, tie the other end to a vehicle and pull.
Just make sure the deer is tied up to something very stable, like a big tree branch. If you do this in your garage make sure you don't pull your ceiling down
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pulaskiville
Posts: 3,533
RE: Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
To me using a vehicle is rediculous for skinning a deer. It takes about 10 minutes without one...and the mistakes people make when using a vehicle are usually costly. JMO, though.
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
Posts: 4,668
RE: Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
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To me using a vehicle is rediculous for skinning a deer. It takes about 10 minutes without one...and the mistakes people make when using a vehicle are usually costly. JMO, though.
To me using a vehicle is rediculous for skinning a deer. It takes about 10 minutes without one...and the mistakes people make when using a vehicle are usually costly. JMO, though.
Exactly.
If you run into a sticky spot you will rip half the meat apart before stopping the vehicle...........or maybe you end up pulling down your garage roof. Just not worth it.
I skinned a buck I wanted to have a shoulder mount done on last year so I was REALLY careful when I got to the front legs on up to the skull. The whole job took me about 20 minutes to do flawlessly. Not worrying about the cape I can be done in 10 minutes.
Sharp knife and some pulling is all you need.
#6
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Putnam County, NY
Posts: 148
RE: Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
I'm not what you would call very experienced but I think skinning is the easiest part of hunting after the shot. Easier than gutting and definately easier than butchering. Just my opinion. Atlasman is on the money, a small sharp knife and a little bit of effort, especially if you're not skinning for a mount, in which case, I'd probably need help.
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pulaskiville
Posts: 3,533
RE: Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
Another piece of advice...Cut from the inside out whenever possible. By that I mean don't cut through the hair anymore than you have to for 2 reasons...
1. It dulls your knife incredibly fast to cut hair
2. It drags the hair into the meat.
1. It dulls your knife incredibly fast to cut hair
2. It drags the hair into the meat.
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Florence Wisconsin Florence WI
Posts: 197
RE: Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
During warm weather, when you skin right away, pulling the hide by hand is easy, but in Wisconsin, we must wait to register our deer at a registration station and in late season, or during rifle season when we have 8-10 frozen deer to skin, it sure makes alot of work easy using a 4-wheeler. For us it is not rediculous, it's practical, and we have never had a problem doing them this way. We use a big tree to hang our deer from so the garage roof thing is not an issue but is something I am aware of.
#10
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Western New York
Posts: 606
RE: Tips or Tricks For Skinning?
I've sen a skinning aid advertised that uses air you put a needle in the hide hook it to an air compresser has anyone tried this ? does it work or is it more bs to get you to spend more money ?