What are people's thoughts about skinning a deer using the method where one ties a rock to the hide, then ties a rope to the rock and pulls the hide off with the rope tied to a vehicle? Seems like a good way if one is not planning on caping out the animal, and keeping the hair off the meat? Any thoughts either way? Thanks.
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Thanks for the reply all. From what I've seen, the rock is placed to the underside of the hide to make kind of a ball to tie the rope to on the hair side. I've seen this method used on a warm deer as explorer noted by a guy I work with who videod it and it seemed to work pretty well. The deer was on the ground (on a tarp), but have seen it in one of my books where the deer is hanging from a tree (by the rack) too.
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Oh, I think I see. I guess you'd have to tie the hind legs to something. Still, I'm having trouble picturing how this works. How is the rock placed underneath the skin? I'd be concerned about the flank meat coming off with the hide. That stuff is good for sausage. Also, there's a spot at the top of the ham that always seems to want to stick to the hide.
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The deer is hung by the neck, The hide is cut around the neck and down the frount legs with the legs cut off at the knees (both the front and back legs need to cut off at the knees). The rock or golf ball is place under the hide between the shoulder blades. Tie one end of the rope around the bulge made by the rock or ball, the other to your truck. SLOWLY pull hide off. The hide comes off case skinned like a coon. You should have a hairless body.
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Yep, bjohnston provided the detail for sure! Thanks all for the input, and I will be sure to try this on my next deer (maybe). My buddy is a taxidermist, so I am trying to save him hides when I can, but Bioguy hit it on the head in his first reply. When time is of the essence (like an early fall, warm weather kill) this method should work great in getting meat cooled quick and efficiently.
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I hang my deer head down and by both knees with gamble. I start removing the hide from the legs, hams and after removing the tailbone I wrap several halgf hitches around the inverted tailbone (no rock or ball is needed) tie to my 4 wheeler and pull away. This pulls the deer at a 45 making for easy knive work where needed, after the hide and neck is removed the deer swings back verticle for processing.
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