I tanned a few coon hides and just thought that maybe there would be a few of you that may like to see what they ended up like. I dont realy like the cemical tanning solutions os i have used this one in the past for a deer hide that i tanned about 15 years ago. the hair has never sliped or shead it is in as good of shape today as the day it came of the deer. The solution is 1/4 lb alum 1/2 lb salt to a gallon of water. I have found it works the best to dissolve it in warm water to get it to mik the best. the first thing I do is flesh the fat and get the hide as clean as you can then wash in water with some gress cutting dish soap, next salt them down good and put them in a place where they will drain all the liquid away from the hides, this took two days for mine to do, then shake out all the salt mix up your solution and place the hides ie it all the way under lossly turning them ever other day this will take about two weeks 10 days or so you are looking for the hides to look a white color all the way through, it will not hert them to stay longer if you need a few days to have time to get to them, so next you need to dry them and work the hide so the fibers dont lock it up making the hide stiff, for this I just stretched them every few days. here are some pics of what i ended up with and how I did it.sorry for the bad grammer and spelling.lol
