how do you hang and skin?

[Otten_17]

We always hung from the head at my dads place, at mine I hang from the rear. It was much easier skinning there but we also had tall ceilings and mounted a winch up there.


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[Brendan]

So I'm assuming the pelvic bone is not split when gutting if using this method?

Correct, I never split. Just have to be a little more careful field dressing and pull everything through.

 

[shootbrownelk]

I skin my elk , deer and antelope (and two moose) by hanging them from the rafters in my garage. I hang them by each rear leg independently on hooks that are mounted on chains to the rafters, right under the 4.500 lb winch that I lift them up there with. Works great.

 

[Ross]

I prefer the meat pole method makes for good pics, keeps things clean and lets the air circulate to get things cooled off

 

[N2TRKYS]

I always hang by the hind legs with a single tree. I never gut them and never split the pelvis.

 

[hwy5076]

I usually just skin on the ground..most times trees are a long way off.

 

[Otten_17]

I prefer the meat pole method makes for good pics, keeps things clean and lets the air circulate to get things cooled offView attachment 92730View attachment 92731

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[2blade]

I hang mine horizontally, against the ground and debone them on the spot.

yep, me too

 

[Salmonchaser]

Mostly gutless quartering on the ground, then go find a suitable tree.

 

[tommy8553]

i use a tractor also but hung from the hind legs.

 

[Milestone522]

Legs up head down. With one person it takes about 30 minutes to skin, two people knock it down to about 10 minutes. Draining is not an issue.

 

[NUKE]

im amazed at the diiferent ways people hang and skin deer. iv tried several but the way i do it anymore is to hang from back legs on a single tree( redneck for gambrel). then just skin him down. how do you all do it?

Same

 

[ChrisAU]

Legs up head down. With one person it takes about 30 minutes to skin, two people knock it down to about 10 minutes. Draining is not an issue.

Part of it on an evening hunt is a couple celebratory brews while cleaning a whitetail. So the evening ones can take 20 mins or so, but if I kill one or clean one for a friend after a morning hunt from the time the gambrel goes in the back legs to gut bucket loaded in the gator is less than 10 minutes and I don’t consider myself fast, just trying to beat the inevatable swarm of yellow jackets!

 

[Desk Jockey]

I prefer to hang by the neck if I can.

I messed with a portable gramble in the field but now just skin on the ground. Once you do it once or twice it is easy (except for the bending and kneeling - getting old sucks).

 

[Glendon Mullins]

Same for me.

same here, hang from the legs and work your way down

 

[rjb0021]

I've always hung them from the back legs and skinned downward.

 

[Ok GW]

For me I’ve found hanging by the neck leaves little hair on meat. I’ve done it both but much prefer hanging by neck.

 

[87TT]

I do the back legs up on deer with a stick holding it up and spreading the legs.. Stick goes between the tendon and leg bone.. Did hang a whitetail by the antlers over a barrel at my bro-in law's in Texas because we were gutting and cutting in his front yard.

 

[Backyard]

I hang from the head, start at the neck, and just pull the hide off. Takes me about ten minutes alone.

 

[elkstabber]

I'll assume that the OP was talking whitetails.

I hunt the farm that I live on and have hung, skinned, and cut whitetails every way I could think of. I've settled on using the gutless method, just like all the western hunters do.

In Virginia our weather isn't usually cool enough to age outside plus I HATE the fact that ticks will be dropping off of the dead deer. Then all of those evil little bastards will climb on me the next time I got to where the deer was skinned or cut up. This is the primary reason that I choose to go gutless.

Typically I remove the meat (gutless) right where the animal died. Then put the meat in meat bags just like most western hunters and haul the bags out of the woods. Since I live where I hunt I prefer to have buzzards eat the carcass instead of coyotes. I don't want to feed coyotes. So I will drag the carcass to a place that buzzards can easily find it (openings in trees) and then lay out some toilet paper so they can find it even easier. The white toilet paper is easily found by the buzzards and also melts away after a rain or two. Buzzards or eagles will have it picked by noon the next day. I've found that if I don't flag it with toilet paper it may take them 4-5 days to find it, which also makes it stink a lot more.

Then I will age the meat in coolers for a week or so. Its important to keep the meat up out of the ice water.