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Post by tar12 on Sept 18, 2016 10:59:26 GMT -5
We did not limit this am but we still had a good time...I have been able to hunt with my son a lot this year and thats the best part of it all!  |
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Post by edge on Sept 18, 2016 13:48:09 GMT -5
OK, enough already!
You have to have a trick to skinning.
I was never a hunter until I was in my twenty's.
I moved next door to someone who would become one of my best friends.
We went rabbit hunting and while we did not have a dog we always had a blast and came back with a few.
Fast forward a year or two and we go deer hunting and we get a doe.
BAM, 50 pounds of meat from a deer...3 pounds of meat from a days worth of rabbits and almost the same amount of work skinning and cleaning...
I have not rabbit hunted since that day, I belonged to a club that put out hundreds of Pheasants each year but that is "put and take", and that is all the small game I have done in almost 30 years!
We used to have a saying for getting a deer from the field, cut up, and into the freezer " Dry'd Clean'd and Pressed ".
I always liked pulling the skin off while still warm...it comes off as easy as taking off a jacket, some guys let them hang.
To me fast is best, I can leave them in my outside fridge if I want some aging.
So, you are not spending 45 minutes doing a deer, you must have a trick that gets you done in a hurry...care to share?
Right now those squirrels are barking at me every time I go deer hunting and one of the only reasons they are still there is because I don't want to waste game.
edge.
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Post by tar12 on Sept 18, 2016 16:00:05 GMT -5
A squirrel is skinned and gutted and cut in less than a minute flat.We use the tail cut method on the tree rats. Deer are hung skinned and deboned while hanging 5-6 minutes on them.The boned meat goes straight onto ice. When we are done with a deer its a skeleton hanging with the guts intact. We are a fine tuned team and no words are spoken until we are done. In the last 5 years we have skinned approx. 260 deer. Thats no joke...that number is much higher on the tree rats. I will post a video on both next time. Both methods are pretty slick.
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Post by tar12 on Sept 18, 2016 16:16:26 GMT -5
Here is a youtube link to the method we employ on skinning squirrels.
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Post by edge on Sept 18, 2016 16:34:34 GMT -5
That is a pretty cool device. Since I almost always hunt deer alone, dragging the guts out of the woods is not an option, especially since I have my bow/gun treestand, backpack, etc. Every pound counts at my age  Dragging a few squirrels should not be a problem...they just started an air rifle season for small gameso I might have to give it a try. edge. |
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