You know when you’ve got an old muntjac buck and someone has super glued the hide on? … Has anyone used ‘hide pullers’?Im so right hand dominant that it darent pull with the right and use a knife in my left hand, struggling with awful hand cramps in left hand, maybe this is the answer?
Hide pullers?
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deerstalker.308
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Have you tried releasing a bit of the hide and then cutting a hand hole in it to allow you something to grab rather than pinch between fingers and thumbs?
If you've got a mechanical carcass hoist, use that for hide pulling:
With the animal hanging from the hoist, skin the back legs as far as the tail. Cut through the tail bone, leaving it attached to the skin. Get a noose of rope around the tail just above the bone, and attach the other end to a floor anchor. Then simply press the "up" button on your hoist. Take it steady, and use a knife here and there if it looks like the muscle might tear.
With the animal hanging from the hoist, skin the back legs as far as the tail. Cut through the tail bone, leaving it attached to the skin. Get a noose of rope around the tail just above the bone, and attach the other end to a floor anchor. Then simply press the "up" button on your hoist. Take it steady, and use a knife here and there if it looks like the muscle might tear.
devon deer stalker
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On one of my deer culling days we used this method on a fallow deer, worked really well.
But we tried it in a muntie and those things do not want to give up their skin even using a Hilux
But we tried it in a muntie and those things do not want to give up their skin even using a Hilux
Great idea !
I hadn’t thought of allowing them to warm a little, thanks
nun_hunter
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I used mole grips on the last fallow I skinned (after hanging at 2⁰C for 2 weeks) and it made it so much easier. It's not the most difficult but the mole grips were a game changer.
RescueMe0007
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I've no experience of Muntjac, but for Sika & Fallow I've used a couple of golf balls, some cord and two pieces of wooden dowel. Allows me to get my full weight to pull the hide off a suspended carcass. Keeps the hair off the meat (largely).
Thoburns
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If you can skin while hot all the better 5mins tops. when I was slaughtering even lambs could be tough if allowed to chill down while we were having breakfast or a breakdown in the line. I do all mine hot inc roe then into the chiller, once cool then use cling film to stop the meat getting hard/dry while hanging.
Yep they are so easy ‘fresh’ but I only do that it going straight into freezer, I prefer to hang for a week or so but I like the clingfilm idea !
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