Muntjac Buck thick skin.

[Tim.243]

Broke down a neck shot muntjac Buck this morning, using new to me digital scales (just for carcass weight)
Just the core weights
10.35kg in the fur
The skin/fur went 2Kg
Loins x2 1.1kg (not trimmed)
Haunch 1.48 each
Front legs never much on them so not weighed
No neck meat and the rest goes in the freezer for a mates dog.

Not interested in every last scrap as often a front end is written off it was just the skin/fur weight that I found interesting.

 

[Norfolk Horn]

I sometimes wonder if that shoulder skin would make good gloves like pig skin.

 

[Tim.243]

I sometimes wonder if that shoulder skin would make good gloves like pig skin.

I would like a stalking coat from red or fallow hide, just to even the score as being spotted they are winning lol

 

[Spear Chucker]

I sometimes wonder if that shoulder skin would make good gloves like pig skin.

Traditionally the finest leather gloves were normally made from Dog skin...it is inherently stronger and less permeable as the sweat pores (a weakening factor apparently) on a dog are in the pads and tongue. A useless bit of information for you.

 

[Fabnosh]

I would like a stalking coat from red or fallow hide, just to even the score as being spotted they are winning lol

 

[bobt]

you would have to trust your shooting mate if wearing that

 

[Tim.243]

you would have to trust your shooting mate if wearing that

Those Somerset boys are a bit gung ho.......

 

[Taff]

I would like a stalking coat from red or fallow hide, just to even the score as being spotted they are winning lol

A house we lived in at the new forest Birch cottage, had deer skins as loft insulation and pipe lagging, I often wonder if they put them up there green or dried, on the other hand they could just have been hiding the skins of the deer they poached.

 

[Harry mac]

Rumour has it that German scientists in the 1930s combined muntjac DNA and cold rolled steel to develop the armour for panzers.

 

[Klenchblaize]

And to think I was convinced my soon-to-be 1st Munty will be a processing walk in the park compared to Fallow. But oh no, along comes Tim243 to ruin my dream with his warning of an in-the-woods wrestling match with the critter simply to remove the outer coating!

K

 

[Tim.243]

And to think I was convinced my soon-to-be 1st Munty will be a processing walk in the park compared to Fallow. But oh no, along comes Tim243 to ruin my dream with his warning of an in-the-woods wrestling match with the critter simply to remove the outer coating!

K

Shoot first, complain after

 

[Tim.243]

Shoot first, complain after

Put your big boy pants (green) and get stuck in.

 

[Smellydog]

I would like a stalking coat from red or fallow hide, just to even the score as being spotted they are winning lol

Put a sticker on the back " do not shoot!"

 

[tarponhead]

Broke down a neck shot muntjac Buck this morning, using new to me digital scales (just for carcass weight)
Just the core weights
10.35kg in the fur
The skin/fur went 2Kg
Loins x2 1.1kg (not trimmed)
Haunch 1.48 each
Front legs never much on them so not weighed
No neck meat and the rest goes in the freezer for a mates dog.

Not interested in every last scrap as often a front end is written off it was just the skin/fur weight that I found interesting.

I had the same experience on a representative buck I shot last week - really heavy pelt. I’d love to preserve one but the hassle and cost doesn’t warrant it.

 

[Tim.243]

I had the same experience on a representative buck I shot last week - really heavy pelt. I’d love to preserve one but the hassle and cost doesn’t warrant it.

The .270 is back in use as the Reds and Fallow are showing so some big holes in the muntjac of late

 

[tarponhead]

I know what you mean! My muntjac was shot with a .308 - with a perfect .30 cal hole in the shoulder but a 40mm cannon shell exit…

 

[ofbiro]

A taylor told me that nowaday skins are split (through the thickness) with large machinery, so expensive that no tannery will use it to split one single skin.
Small, family owned tanneries disappeared due to stringent anti pollution regulations.

 

[Tim.243]

A taylor told me that nowaday skins are split (through the thickness) with large machinery, so expensive that no tannery will use it to split one single skin.
Small, family owned tanneries disappeared due to stringent anti pollution regulations.

From an anti pollution point keeping the rivers clean is a good thing as the chemicals used are quite potent.

 

[Leec6.5]

I know what you mean! My muntjac was shot with a .308 - with a perfect .30 cal hole in the shoulder but a 40mm cannon shell exit…

I’ve seen worse and still had to go after the little tank with a dog

 

[Antonyweeks]

I shot a muntjac doe last year with my 30-06 from about 45 yards. Amazingly the bullet went through her body and took out a shoulder but missed all the vitals and she went down. She started making this appalling noice and as I approached she jumped up and ran off. Took me a further 45 minutes to find her in the woodland. She then took another shot and fell.