How To Skin A Deer

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.

Skinning a deer can take hard process if you are not experienced yet. But it will soon be easy if you follow the steps. Physically, deer has separate skin and muscle tissues that make it easier to skin.

Before skinning, you should hang the deer down so that the skinning process can be thorough and the meat can be cleaner. Basically, you should do skinning within two hours since the deer died to keep the meat fresh and healthy.

Take a shard knife and stab between the lower leg's large tendon and bone. Keep focusing on the part and put your finger in to sense 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.

The next step is to move on the upper side and make more holes near the deer's tendon and front legs. Keep focusing on the holes. If they are good, it will be easier for you to skin the deer later.

At the front legs, you also make openings at around the same parts. After that, get your hand inside the skin near the deer's lower leg. Slowly but sure, pull the skin off.

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.

Generally, it takes from 10 to 15 minutes to skin a deer. Otherwise, it can be longer if you are not experienced with the process. Skinning is also tiring. But real hunters just would not want to miss the step.

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