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snake284-1
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Blooded Another Rifle Today
snake284-1
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I shot a doe in the Sendero at my lease today at about 200 yards from the blind. My grandson was with me. Here's some pics. Note how we skinned it.
As you can see, the camera was an after thought as you can see by the skinned strip on the neck. As I was getting it prepared to pull it off with the car, my grandson reminded me of taking some pics.
After I cut around the neck and down to the chest, I cut the skin from the front legs and pulled it down just below them. Then I put a golf ball under the skin and tied a rope around it and hooked the other end to the trailer hitch on my wife's truck bumper. I used my Suburban to hoist the deer up and hold it while preparing it to skin and also to keep it hanging while gutting and quartering it and I used my wife's GMC Canyon to pull the skin off with the rope tied around the golf ball and to the Canyon's trailer hitch. The skin will come off much easier pulling it from the head-neck down to it's back legs than the way most people do it from the back legs down to the head-neck. And the use of a vehicle to pull it off is even easier. I used the two vehicles because I didn't have much to tie the deer off after I had it hanging. I need to rig me up a proper boom in the back yard if I keep killing deer.
Pic of it skinned.
As you can see, the camera was an after thought as you can see by the skinned strip on the neck. As I was getting it prepared to pull it off with the car, my grandson reminded me of taking some pics.
After I cut around the neck and down to the chest, I cut the skin from the front legs and pulled it down just below them. Then I put a golf ball under the skin and tied a rope around it and hooked the other end to the trailer hitch on my wife's truck bumper. I used my Suburban to hoist the deer up and hold it while preparing it to skin and also to keep it hanging while gutting and quartering it and I used my wife's GMC Canyon to pull the skin off with the rope tied around the golf ball and to the Canyon's trailer hitch. The skin will come off much easier pulling it from the head-neck down to it's back legs than the way most people do it from the back legs down to the head-neck. And the use of a vehicle to pull it off is even easier. I used the two vehicles because I didn't have much to tie the deer off after I had it hanging. I need to rig me up a proper boom in the back yard if I keep killing deer.
Pic of it skinned.
I'm Just a Radical Right Wing Nutt Job, Trying to Help Save My Country!
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So when is the BBQ???
Congratulations on the meat deer. I'll be trying again tomorrow, and will be perfectly satisfied with a nice doe. We can only shoot does on Thanksgiving Day through Sunday.
I'm headed out in a few minutes for a brief hunt before having to come back for the festivities
-96 lbs
I have skinned one from the neck down once.
I prefer the other way.
So was it a .270?
Good to hear your hunting Paul
Congratulations Mike...nice to see the grandson along
I agree - the skinning is part of the whole 'hunting experience,' and I don't find it unpleasant, at all. I never did enjoy the immasculation part, though. :tooth:
Yeah, I had planned on going out this morning with the grandson again, but we were both pretty well beat after yesterday. We'll do it tomorrow. Good luck Paul.
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I said .257 Roberts Ackley Improved!!! It's like a smaller version of a .25-06!!!
All I know is that it seems to work very nicely. Both my little quarterbores seem to kill real efficiently, especially with that 115 grain Combined Technologies bullet.
Thanks Weatherby, and yes, it's great to have grandsons to take hunting. I'm Lovin' it and I have another one that is not quite 2 who will be ready in about 10 more years.
Ya know, I didn't pay any attention, but I think you're right. It was in my wife's practice ball bucket. All I know is it was Parr for the course, :jester:
I hear ya Alec. But the problem here and why I didn't have the luxury of time was the ambient temperature here. It was in the 80s until about 8 PM last night and I wanted to get her on ice fast. That's the beauty of the Golf Ball method, is that it's fast and it does a great job. But one message here is that skinning from the top down is that it seems smoother and easier than from the bottom towards the head. Try it sometime and think about how easily the skin seems to strip off. When I skin from the butt toward the head, I'm continually having to shave membrane to free the skin. When you do it from the neck back it seems to peel off better. Also, my grandson wanted the hyde and I figured doing it this way wouldn't mess it up as much.
Yeah, no joke. I hate that part. If I could have my way I'd just as soon that it weren't part of the "Hunting Experience."
However, infortunately there ain't much gettin around it, :vomit: Whether we like it or not it IS part of the experience.
Not only for taking a nice deer, but for taking your grandson along.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks Shooter, and I wish you many more fond memories to be made in the future.
I agree.......
The method I was taught was to hang the deer by its back legs , start skinning from either side of the belly until you reach the spine, then, using your fist, punch the skin 'upwards' and off the back till you reach the tail. 'Punch' down the back legs till free ( having slit down the inside of each leg). You will then have the rear half of the skin hanging down towards the ground. Grab the end of the loose skin in one hand ( Having cut down the inside of the front legs) and pull towards the ground. Depending on the size of the deer, I sometimes hold the end of the loose skin in one hand, make a 'loop' in the rest of the loose skin, put one foot on it and push towards the ground.
The front half of a deer will skin 'cleanly' by pulling towards the head........the rear part by pulling towards the tail....But I wouldnt be surprised if that would be the 'wrong' way to skin the deer you guys have over there...............I mean, you drive on the wrong side of the road, bastardize the English language, call scones 'biscuits' and call biscuits 'cookies' not to mention many other 'sins' against humanity.....................:tooth:
Which is to be expected I guess, seeing as how you live in the past.............:rotflmao:
ALAC, blimey mate ya forgot a propeller is an airscrew, landing gear is an alighting carrage, a bonnett a hood, and a pint a beer.
JAY
Congrats on a deer down.
May day has been spent grilling elk steak, steak, hot links, and sausage and good times with family and friends.
"The Un-Tactical"
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I'm heading back out tomorrow for a week, we'll see how it goes.
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I just asked Rikki that question and she said it depends on how big your golf ball is. Now you know
WHATS FOR DINNER?
Naw!!!!!!!!!!!! Spaulding, Ted Williams, Store Brand:jester::rotflmao: