Skinning dear. ATV method!

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Any of you guys skinned your deer using your atv winch? A guy was telling me about it. Sounded ok. But I wasn't sure if he was full of sh*t or not. If any of you guys do it. How exactly is it done? I may give it a try if you guys reccomend it. Thanks fellas!

Dave.
 
Yea Ive done it with a golf ball and my winch on the truck. Hang it by it,s head on a tree and with a saw cut it,s legs of just before the knuckle so you can still hang it by its tendons. Next cut the hide across up each leg to the end, cut around the neck and hide a little bit out so you can inseart the golf ball and wrap the winch line around the golf ball which is under the hide. Winch away . Should take about 20 seconds or so to hide it out.
 
freddy said:
Yea Ive done it with a golf ball and my winch on the truck. Hang it by it,s head on a tree and with a saw cut it,s legs of just before the knuckle so you can still hang it by its tendons. Next cut the hide across up each leg to the end, cut around the neck and hide a little bit out so you can inseart the golf ball and wrap the winch line around the golf ball which is under the hide. Winch away . Should take about 20 seconds or so to hide it out.
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Can't picture the golf ball thingy! Do you wrap the cable around the ball, snap the hook to the cable. Tighten cable with winch around golf ball? So the cable has something to grip?

Dave.
 
Golf ball thing works like a charm. Cut the deers hide like you were going to make a rug from it. Cut around the legs, down the middle to the butt hole, around the neck, etc. We fix the antlers to a strong tree, tie a strong hunk of static rope to a golfball as an anchor on the hide at the base of the neck and fix the other end of the rope to the bumper of a truck. Simply drive ahead very lowly ripping the hide off the carcass like peeling a bannana. The animal should be very fresh and not too cool of partially frozen.

I think the winch/comealong method sounds even better as it is more controlled.
 
Golf ball ,stone ect. all work. Hell if the kill is fresh (which the golf ball, winch truck, yahoo method will only work any how) butch up and pull it off by hand.

Sheesh With 2 chains and 2 trucks I can half a moose but... call me a traditionalist/dinosaur I prefer the old fashioned way.:D
 
freddy said:
Yea Ive done it with a golf ball and my winch on the truck. Hang it by it,s head on a tree and with a saw cut it,s legs of just before the knuckle so you can still hang it by its tendons. Next cut the hide across up each leg to the end, cut around the neck and hide a little bit out so you can inseart the golf ball and wrap the winch line around the golf ball which is under the hide. Winch away . Should take about 20 seconds or so to hide it out.
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Waste of time. By the time you have your rig set up, anyone with a good knife and any knowlage of skinning animals will have the hide removed.

Christ, it takes no more than 10 minutes to skin deer if not you are not worried about the cape. Once they are hung, a knife in the hands of someone that knows how to use it will have a deer skinned by the time you dig through your golf bag for a ball to use.

My suggestion would be to get a good knife and learn how to us it properly. No need for a winch if you have one, other than to lift your animal off the ground.
 
Ya tried it but it's just as easy to skin a warm deer hanging! With one guy trimming & one guy hanging from the skin it comes right off & no need to worry about where the deer is flying to..if something let's go :eek:
 
[Yup, kinda what I was just thinkin.

QUOTE=crazy_davey]Waste of time. By the time you have your rig set up, anyone with a good knife and any knowlage of skinning animals will have the hide removed.

Christ, it takes no more than 10 minutes to skin deer if not you are not worried about the cape. Once they are hung, a knife in the hands of someone that knows how to use it will have a deer skinned by the time you dig through your golf bag for a ball to use.

My suggestion would be to get a good knife and learn how to us it properly. No need for a winch if you have one, other than to lift your animal off the ground.[/QUOTE]
 
senior said:
Ya tried it but it's just as easy to skin a warm deer hanging! With one guy trimming & one guy hanging from the skin it comes right off & no need to worry about where the deer is flying to..if something let's go :eek:
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Yep, if you need a winch to get the hide off you might want to think about skinning the deer before its been hanging for 2 weeks....:rolleyes:

If you can get to skinning a deer within hours of the kill the hide pulls off just like a rabbit.
 
We usually leave out deer hanging for a week or so, the hide is a bit tougher to get off, but even then, two guys with knives can have it off in 15 minutes or so.

I'm still not sure about this gold ball winch idea though. Can anyone have a better stab at explaining it, like how and where exactly the winch is attached to the hide, and why you need a golf ball?
 
crazy_davey said:
Waste of time. By the time you have your rig set up, anyone with a good knife and any knowlage of skinning animals will have the hide removed.

Christ, it takes no more than 10 minutes to skin deer if not you are not worried about the cape. Once they are hung, a knife in the hands of someone that knows how to use it will have a deer skinned by the time you dig through your golf bag for a ball to use.

My suggestion would be to get a good knife and learn how to us it properly. No need for a winch if you have one, other than to lift your animal off the ground.
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Maybe, but trying and knowing another way can't hurt.

I'd like to try a method I heard about up north where they don't even panch it.They just skin it on the ground cut the 1/4's off, take the strap loins off and done. (They do that for reduced weight when theyare packing it on their backs of course)

Different way, but I'd still like to try it.
 
I have heard about this for years, never tried it myself, too damned worried that a bunch of meat will rip off with the hide, just like it does when you skin a deer with your knife and pull down on the hide from time to time to move things along........but yes I do know people who do this and if 762nato does it you can take that to the bank.

The golf ball is just an anchor point to hang on to the hide, you bunch the hide around that ball, tie it off securely and tie the rope/winch/whatever to that. It is like a "handle" to help you pull the hide off, nothing magic.

Maybe this year if we have a LOT of deer, we might try this....but I doubt it. We like to hang our deer with the hide on until we butcher it, unless it is VERY warm, in which case it is hide off right now, and butcher it right now too. More blood in the meat, not as nice, but it is me eating the meat not the maggots.....

Doug
 
Just to help clarify the thing with the golf ball. First forget the golf ball and use a rock. The critter has already been gutted and so is slit from chin to tail and the distal part of the legs have been cut off. Either hang the beast by the antlers or tie them to a tree, truck, fat lady or some other immovable object. If it is hanging or there is snow on the ground then no problem, otherwise you will want a tarp under it to keep it clean. Skin back the hide on the neck, enough to allow it to be wrapped over the rock which is placed on the hairy side of the hide at the back of the neck. Then wrap a length of stong cord around the rock and the hide and tie it.Then secure the cord to the winch line or a truck or a mule. (Ever hear of mule skinners? Works on buffalo too.) Then slowly pull off the hide.
 
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I always thought the golf/tennis ball thing was some urban legend crap my uncle told me when I was knee high. Most have made the point quite accurately, when it's warm it'll peel in no time with one guy on the knife.
 
Skinning a deer with a knife takes very little time, and there isn't much to be gained by using the winch, but the guys who used to skin buffalo for a living soon learned the it was a whole lot less work per hide if they used a couple of mules to pull the hides off. Try it with a truck and a moose and get back to us. It doesn't take any longer to set up for a moose than it does for a deer.
 
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