How To Skin A Deer
March 10, 2010While it may not be the most exciting job in the world, skinning a deer is important when returning from a hunt or when still actually on the hunt. This information will be handy for that day on which you will need to skin a deer.
Skinning a deer can take hard process if you are not experienced yet. But it will soon be easy if you follow the steps. Physically, deer has separate skin and muscle tissues that make it easier to skin.
Before skinning, you should hang the deer down so that the skinning process can be thorough and the meat can be cleaner. Basically, you should do skinning within two hours since the deer died to keep the meat fresh and healthy.
Take a shard knife and stab between the lower leg’s large tendon and bone. Keep focusing on the part and put your finger in to sense the lump.
Once you have found that lump, sever the lower leg at the lower end of the two parts of the double joint. Cut the skin and the tendons here and then snap the deer’s leg over your own leg, using your body’s leverage to break it.
After you have broken the deer’s legs, make several incisions around and near the tendon areas. There should be a whole between the tendon and the bone of the lower leg, as well as several incisions near the front legs.
You will then sever and snap the front legs as well, making the skinning process easier. Use your finger tips and thumbs to get inside the skin near the lower leg incisions and begin to pull the skin off.
Since deer’s skin is tight, you may find it hard to pull it off at the beginning. But the process will be easier after some parts are pulled. Just keep to the techniques.
For a standard rule, skinning a deer can take from ten to fifteen minutes depends on how fast you can do that. It is just one step closer to enjoy and show off your hunt. It may be hard for hunt novices, but they will learn quickly after few times of hunting.
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