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Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby bowhunter15 » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:58 am

So my new garage is only a little over 7 feet high, not high enough to really hang a deer to skin it. I know guys out west use the "gutless method" of skinning game, but most likely my deer will already be gutted. I just need to skin them. Has anyone ever done it on the ground? Do you slice down the back and take the backstraps off, then keep working back down towards the belly? or start at the legs and work up?


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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby Brad » Sun Aug 25, 2013 3:02 am

Does your vehicle have a receiver hitch? If so I have something I am making that might work for you too. If you didn't want to build that and had access to another vehicle or something heavy that wont move, you could start the skinning around the legs and neck and pull with the other vehicle and it should work slick, I have seen that done with a 4 wheeler a lot. It sounds like we have similar situations, my townhouse has no trees suitable to hang a deer in and the garage is not high enough, so we are making a portable skinning/hanging rack that skins the deer as you pull it up with the winch.
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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby Dor » Sun Aug 25, 2013 3:16 am

Throw the deer on a table and the gutless method will work fine even if the deer is gutted.

Start down the center of the neck down through to the tail and work from there. Google gutless method and it will be the same for the most part.

I do one side at a time-skin one side, take strap and quarters, flip, skin,take strap and quarters. Not as easy as hanging it but it will get the job done.
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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby cbigbear » Sun Aug 25, 2013 4:02 am

Here's the method I use. It's the same gutless or gutted.

http://youtu.be/FntqOrMKjQ4

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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby G3s » Sun Aug 25, 2013 4:42 am

If you have an air compressor and a blow gun you can make a small slit in the hide and but the nozzle of the blow gun in the slice and use air to skin the animal, you should be able to literally blow the hide off the deer.
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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby hoyt » Sun Aug 25, 2013 5:18 am

cbigbear wrote:Here's the method I use. It's the same gutless or gutted.

http://youtu.be/FntqOrMKjQ4

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I do pretty much like Chris does in his video. I bone it all out and pack out.
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Unread postby bowhunter15 » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:10 pm

All great help. Thanks. I just found out it looks like there's a different solution to the problem. My dad ordered one of those portable game hangers that I can set up in my yard. Guess that works too.
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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby Zap » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:47 pm

cbigbear wrote:Here's the method I use. It's the same gutless or gutted.

http://youtu.be/FntqOrMKjQ4

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Excellent video, thanks for sharing it. :mrgreen:
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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby Uncle Lou » Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:53 am

bowhunter15 wrote:All great help. Thanks. I just found out it looks like there's a different solution to the problem. My dad ordered one of those portable game hangers that I can set up in my yard. Guess that works too.


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Re: Skinning a deer without hanging it?

Unread postby Stanley » Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:03 am

Eye bolt in the ceiling. Cut off the rear legs at the joint pull him up to the top with a gambrel and skin him. I have skinned a few in a 7 feet ceiling.
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