GOLFBALL SKINNING TRICK???????
#2
Join Date: Dec 2006
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RE: GOLFBALL SKINNING TRICK???????
Basically you cut the skin free around the neck and hooves with the deer hanging by it's neck.
Free the skin a few inches below your cut. Take a rock or golfball and place it inside the loose skin and push out so you can clearly see the imprint of the ball/rock in the hids. Tie a rope around that pushed out piece of hide with the ball/rock still in it. Make sure your knot is tight.
Tie the other end of the rope to a truck/4-wheeler/tractor. Slowly drive forward and the deer will pretty much skin itself.
NOTE: Make sure whatever the deer is hanging from is strong enough to withstand the pull!!!
Here are some videos demonstrating different variation on the theme:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
#3 is probably a bit faster than I would do it, but it seems to work fine for them.
Here's a website that explains it all step by step really well with pics.
Free the skin a few inches below your cut. Take a rock or golfball and place it inside the loose skin and push out so you can clearly see the imprint of the ball/rock in the hids. Tie a rope around that pushed out piece of hide with the ball/rock still in it. Make sure your knot is tight.
Tie the other end of the rope to a truck/4-wheeler/tractor. Slowly drive forward and the deer will pretty much skin itself.
NOTE: Make sure whatever the deer is hanging from is strong enough to withstand the pull!!!
Here are some videos demonstrating different variation on the theme:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
#3 is probably a bit faster than I would do it, but it seems to work fine for them.
Here's a website that explains it all step by step really well with pics.
#3
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Posts: 2,123
RE: GOLFBALL SKINNING TRICK???????
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Illinois
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RE: GOLFBALL SKINNING TRICK???????
Yep, video #2 and #3 are pretty much how we do it too. We cut the legs off right before the knee joint and make slits along the hide. We also use a dog choke collar instead of a rope around the rock and then a chain. But it works just as good either way.
#5
RE: GOLFBALL SKINNING TRICK???????
Watched the videos and the interest is up. Just might give it a try this year. Now if someone could give a hint like that on plucking geese I would be in the money,
#9
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Posts: 2,123
RE: GOLFBALL SKINNING TRICK???????
ORIGINAL: whitetaildreamer
Watched the videos and the interest is up. Just might give it a try this year. Now if someone could give a hint like that on plucking geese I would be in the money,
Watched the videos and the interest is up. Just might give it a try this year. Now if someone could give a hint like that on plucking geese I would be in the money,