Shipping deer hide...?

[lildave]

ANyone ever shipped their hide anywhere? I need to know how to package one properly to ship it to a distant family member.

She is native and does amazing work with them, and would like us to ship her some this year.

What would be the best thing to do?
Remove from deer, scrape off any larger fatty peices, sprinkle entire fat side of hide with salt, then what?

roll it up?
fold it up?
pack it in a bag, and then in a box?
overnight courier it to her?

I'm in Ottawa, she's in BC.

May get some gloves or slippers or a bag or something like that in return.

Dave

 

[Skippy]

I'd avoid the plastic bag, only because it'll hold in heat and encourage condensation. Sprinkle salt all over the wet side and maybe roll it in waxed paper before taping it into a box. Overnight courier would be best, but a deer hide is heavy and it's going to cost a fortune to send that far.

It'll be worth it if you get a nice pair of shooting gloves out of it though.

 

[kkahmann]

Put it in a plastic bag and freeze it rock solid--don't salt it unless you know exactly what you are doing. Deer hide ain't that heavy--now don't try shipping a moose hide.

 

[dw]

Put it in a cooler. Then freeze the whole thing in a chest freezer (or freeze hide then put in a cooler)....ship by bus or courier. If you freeze the hide in the cooler you know the hide fits okay

 

[fogducker]

back in 1996...we had a deer head done..it started off in ontario..but were told we needed a permit to send to out west..i believe it was edmonton..but the guy doing the mount looked after all the details..
but if i can help out if this all bs... i,ll save our hides and donate our hides also ..

 

[Calum]

Hmm I was wondering what to do with the hides I will have.

Also fear not about the Salt...it simply preserves it, and keeps the flys from making a home in it.
Mailing a refrigerated Cooler is going to cost more then the price of a new pair of boots.