Skinning A Deer
March 10, 2010 by Ben Vinson
Filed under Hunting
While 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.
First of all, skinning a deer is not that difficult as you imagined before. Deer has protective membranes that separate their skin and muscle tissues, which make it easier for the skinning process.
You should first hang the deer creating a greater leverage point for skinning the deer. This also ensures that the meat will stay clean. It is important to try to skin the deer within an hour or two of the deer’s death.
When skinning, make sure you use a really sharp knife so that you do not go through the same part over and over again. Stab somewhere between the deer’s large tendon at the lower leg and bone. After that, use your finger to feel the lump.
After that, find two parts of the double joint at the lower part of body to be torn. The leg should then be broken to ease the skinning process.
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.
After that, we move deeper to the front legs. Break and make openings just like you do with the lower legs. Get inside the skin near the lower leg openings and pull it off to start the skinning process.
The skinning process may be hard in the beginning since the skin is quite tight. But once you can pull off some inches, the rest will be easy to finish. And even more after you see the meat, the reward of your hunt.
Skinning a deer, while not particularly romantic, is a process that should take around ten to fifteen minutes and relies almost entirely on your own body weight and strength.
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