How to skin a deer when your parents ask for help

Step 3 Make cuts in the hide

Cut the hide around the neck and make one long cut from the neck down the chest until you reach the belly. For this step, I used a regular buck knife with a slightly curved blade. You want to cut through the hide until you get to the meat. There is an area between the hide and the meat which is watery and thin. Take it easy when you make your first cut. Once you cut through the skin, you'll see the red meat underneath. When you sense that you have cut through the skin, stop and continue your cut all the way around the neck and then down the chest.

Comments

[deadlock76]

You should never hang a deer by it head to skin. The hair around the neck will get all over the meat. You should hang the deer by it's rear legs and skin down towards the head. Thus preventing hair getting all over the meat.

[fragmaster4]

Here is a tip, (this might sound cruel but...it's already dead so :/) Cut the hind and front legs off at the joints and pull its coat off like a coat. Sometimes it works sometimes it don't. And if it does you might get the horns with it =]<br/>

[adamr20]

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