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How do you skin a deer? Head up or down?

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Skin from the head down with the deer hanging by it's head.
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How do you skin a deer? Head up or down?

Old 03-07-2007, 09:08 AM
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Default RE: How do you skin a deer? Head up or down?

I have also alwasy done it head up.
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Old 03-07-2007, 09:50 AM
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Head down!!
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Old 03-07-2007, 11:21 AM
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It all depends on my mood I have done it both ways. Large Deer 160 lbs + head down. Under 160 head up. Anything above 160 hind quarters are a pain to get off with out them hitting the floor.




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Old 03-07-2007, 11:47 AM
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Ive done them head down heads up kind of prefere heads down[8D]
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Old 03-07-2007, 01:41 PM
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head up is the easiest and quickest way and cleanest way of skinning. I used to skin and butcher deer for a living.
Why?
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Old 03-07-2007, 01:49 PM
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head up is the easiest and quickest way and cleanest way of skinning. I used to skin and butcher deer for a living.
Why?
I posted a picture of Heads Up skinning! Buy the time a person can do one with Heads Down, I can do two Deer with Heads Up bypulling the hide offand same with Hogs!
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Old 03-07-2007, 01:50 PM
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Default RE: How do you skin a deer? Head up or down?

We've always done it head up. I have never tried it any other way (though the golf ball trick has been discussed during the process)

For those who have tried both, does the heightof the deer while its hanging,affect the ease at which you can skin the deer?
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Old 03-07-2007, 02:03 PM
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Default RE: How do you skin a deer? Head up or down?

if you shoot a buck that you want to mount, how can hang it any way but by the hind legs? you can't have that rope mark around the neck.
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Old 03-07-2007, 02:08 PM
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if you shoot a buck that you want to mount, how can hang it any way but by the hind legs? you can't have that rope mark around the neck.
Every one you kill, you mount it? Of course you would protect the head and have a different approach to the issue of skinning it!
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Old 03-07-2007, 03:37 PM
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As long as temperature averages at least 38 degrees,cut throat, andI hang head down for three days. It Keeps blood out of hind quarters.If I have to hang it outdoors and exspect rain, I hang head up as hair grows down and the rain runs down and off.When I can hang insideI skin right away and hang head down. when it is warm I don't fool around , it gets butchered.
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