Good tip for skinning deer...
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
Posts: 104
Good tip for skinning deer...
Hopefully this helps you all.
Don't you hate getting all the excess hair off the carcass after you skin your deer? We have tried everything, and found that this makes it a snap:
Take a small propane torch, and wave it over the flesh. Now, you don't want to cook the meat, just pass it over the spots with hair stuck to them as if you were airbrushing something. The hair will burn off in an instant and save you 45 minutes of picking it off, running a knife edge across it, etc. We figured this out a couple years back and it works like a charm!
Don't you hate getting all the excess hair off the carcass after you skin your deer? We have tried everything, and found that this makes it a snap:
Take a small propane torch, and wave it over the flesh. Now, you don't want to cook the meat, just pass it over the spots with hair stuck to them as if you were airbrushing something. The hair will burn off in an instant and save you 45 minutes of picking it off, running a knife edge across it, etc. We figured this out a couple years back and it works like a charm!
#3
RE: Good tip for skinning deer...
It wont harm the meat or any thing will it?
I really have never had a problem with hair not coming off. We just slit it at its back leg then to its back leg hip (or what ever you wanna call it). then we just pull it all the way down.
I really have never had a problem with hair not coming off. We just slit it at its back leg then to its back leg hip (or what ever you wanna call it). then we just pull it all the way down.
#4
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Jefferson County, Missouri
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RE: Good tip for skinning deer...
ORIGINAL: Pope94/IA
It wont harm the meat or any thing will it?
I really have never had a problem with hair not coming off. We just slit it at its back leg then to its back leg hip (or what ever you wanna call it). then we just pull it all the way down.
It wont harm the meat or any thing will it?
I really have never had a problem with hair not coming off. We just slit it at its back leg then to its back leg hip (or what ever you wanna call it). then we just pull it all the way down.
#6
RE: Good tip for skinning deer...
The best way to keep hair off the skin is to do a good job seperating the hide from the skin. I used to use my knife but found that it often was so sharp it would cut the skin and the hair or the meat leaving small pieces stuck to the hide. Now I use an old Arrowhead I found in South Texas. It's more of a stone tool that dates back several thousand years. I have to hand it to the Indians, they knew what they were doing. The stone is sharp enough to seperate the skin formm the hide but not sharp enough to cut the skin or even the meat. When I remove a hide it is almost perfetly white whithout a single cut or piece of meat stuck to it.
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Dallas, Texas
Posts: 194
RE: Good tip for skinning deer...
"if you pay attention not to cut hair and just hide, you won't have hair on your meat".....
Now that's funny........show me ONE PLACE besides nose and eyes on a deer that AREN'T covered in hair....??
Nice tip--- For those who know it's worth.
Now that's funny........show me ONE PLACE besides nose and eyes on a deer that AREN'T covered in hair....??
Nice tip--- For those who know it's worth.
#8
RE: Good tip for skinning deer...
i dont care how careful you are your still gonna get some hair on the meat.. about the only way i dont think you would get hair on the meat is maybe if you use the golf ball method.. the torch is a good method.. seen it done. works pretty good
#10
RE: Good tip for skinning deer...
ORIGINAL: pm69442
"if you pay attention not to cut hair and just hide, you won't have hair on your meat".....
Now that's funny........show me ONE PLACE besides nose and eyes on a deer that AREN'T covered in hair....??
Nice tip--- For those who know it's worth.
"if you pay attention not to cut hair and just hide, you won't have hair on your meat".....
Now that's funny........show me ONE PLACE besides nose and eyes on a deer that AREN'T covered in hair....??
Nice tip--- For those who know it's worth.
The torch idea sounds feasbile, though.