I like 'em hairless!

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I grew up in the land of moose and have that worked out but this year was my first at deer hunting.
No problem, found my deer, shot my deer, gutted my deer and brought it home to hang. WHERE DID ALL THE HAIR COME FROM??????? Holy heck, moose have 10x the hair and body to spread it on and they are dirt simple to keep clean when gutting/skinning and pick the rest off before the butcher. My 68lb deer (stop laughing- I live on the coast and thats a big deer here!) had enough hair on the meat to keep me occupied for over 2h and 6 beer.

Please share your skinning tips!
 
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When we skin our deer they always stay clean.
We hang them on gambles and just pull the hide off, no mess no trouble, just clean meat.
Try maybe drinking after skinning next time.
 
I carried the carcass out to the truck to avoid dirt and used a gambrel to hang it at home for skinning too.
You really don't have any hair on the meat or you just don't pick it?
Call me fussy, but I can't take anything less than a spotless carcass to the butcher! I figured small deer means less work, but was surprised at how much picking there was and what a pain that fine short hair is.
And maybe there was less than 6 beer drank :redface: (I wasn't counting) but I was trying to make the point that it felt like forever working on this tiny thing.
 
We seemed to have this prob fall past.We don't clean our deer in the woods,only at camp but when bringing them to camp we were all covered in hair.It was like the hair was falling out every time you grabd hold of it and coming out very easily.Never had this prob before !!.We wiped them down good and still got them to the butchers with few hairs left as normal but I think it took a few more than 6 enjoyable brewskie's at the end of the day :p !!!!.

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I dress, skin and quarter in the bush. Make a small whole in the hide at the top, and use the knife blade-up to make the cut all the way to the arse (cut from the inside, out) and the hair stays on the hide. If you cut from the outside, in, you get lots of hair moving around.
 
you will get a lot of hair if you are cutting the hide .if you can get the hide of in one pieces you should have next to no hair on the meat .a l ot of guys cut the hair well going around the legs it just takes time to skin a deer the right way .i have never had more then a few hairs to deal with DUTCH
 
We usually rinse the carcus with a pail or two of cold clean water after skinning,gutting.
Gets rid of most hair,blood etc. Wet cloth works too.
 
As has been said, you will cut (no pun intended) the hair problem down to 10% if you make your cuts from inside the hide, rather than from the outside (the hair side).
 
I also have never had a hair issue,watch when you are trimming the crucial areas and you will not have hair on your meat when you are eating it.
 
the spank said:
Damned! Not what I was expecting from the title of this thread!:D:kickInTheNuts:
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:agree:ya me too. more then a little disappointed..:agree::cool:

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Trimming carefully on a deer can greatly improve the look of the meat when presented on the platter, but on the other hand I've never had a problem with a little hair between the teeth, so to speak... dont mind a few feathers on my duck either.. or on my chicken...
 
The biggest screwup I have seen is the guys that hack away at the hide from the outside trying to get an opening.

Piercing the hide with the point of the knife, and cutting carefully from the inside, had to be the best thing I ever learned to do for processing game. Next best was using a propane torch to clean up any last few hairs that had escaped the wipedown and cleaning. A quick pass across a dried on hair, gone.

Cheers
Trev
 
jaydog said:
My 68lb deer (stop laughing- I live on the coast and thats a big deer here!) had enough hair on the meat to keep me occupied for over 2h and 6 beer.

Please share your skinning tips!
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HAHAHA........the guts I take outta most of my deer weigh that much!
Sorry I couldn't resist. I hear you with the hair deal, it can be a pain in the a$$.
 
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The scratchy pad and torch ideas are news to me. Worth trying next year.
I'm pretty careful to cut with the grain of the hair and usually keep the knife cutting from the inside out (where I can) but might try using a guthook next year to see if that helps. The tiny deer have tiny hairs so it makes a mess that wouldn't happen with bigger animals- hence my problem.
And yah, I may have picked my title for maximum views..... :D
 
What's wrong with with a little fur on your dear burger? As long as it's finger lick'en good! & Hot & juicy! There, I think I'm done...? Spit...:evil::evil::evil:
 
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