Skinning

[Highlander]

Ok,... so you have bought your Gun or Crossbow, you have gone out and brought down your first kill,... do you know what to do next?

You dont want to waste any part of it, so you need to skin it without making holes in it, so you can use the skin for something else

I feed my dogs on Venison, so I have to skin the deer,...this is for those who might not know how,.. I know its done in my carport,.. but... no different to on the hill

Start by gutting, and then removing the heart, kidneys, and lungs clean the inside, remove the head, and the feet, then you are ready

Start by sliceing up the leg, you will find it easy once the knife is in as there is a far gap between the skin and the muscle,..cut up to the very top of the leg,.. you will need to do this with all four legs, unless you shot a three legged deer



pull at the skin, and or gently use the blade to pull away the skin, its doesnt come away as easy as a rabbit skin does, you will need to use the blade a little



Continue the same way around the body, the flank of the deer is a lot easier as you will find that you can pull at the skin more and use the blade less,... [ the blisters you see in this shot, is the result of a fly that the deer get at this time of the year, they simply live under the skin but do not touch the meat]



....and eventualy you should end up with a carcus that looks like this,... because this skin was puntured by the fly, the skin would be no good for clothes,... the next time [if there is no fly ] I will show the skin and what to do with it