Smoking a deer hide

[n_mathews13]

Anyone got any input how long smoken a hide should take?

[viva_che1363]

ive smoked some pretty questionable stuff but a hide is a new one for me. .

[TopOfTheFoodChain]

ive smoked some pretty questionable stuff but a hide is a new one for me. .

 

[Woodchuck]

I can never keep mine lit   

[Elkrunner]

I need to follow this one...

[Pygmy]

I can never keep mine lit   

Lmao!

Pygmy

[JJB11B]

I can never keep mine lit   

My grandpa uses that line incessantly lol

[PlateauNDN]

ive smoked some pretty questionable stuff but a hide is a new one for me. .

  your avatar pic resembles a young Tommy chong!

[Pinetar]

Using wood that smells good, or at least not bad, is something to keep in mind during smoking. The smoke smell fades over time, but it doesn’t really go away. It’s time to turn the hide inside out to smoke the outside when the smoky brown color begins to bleed through to the outside. After the color begins to bleed through, leaving a hide to smoke longer is just about getting the desired color. Some people like the pale color and some like the dark, but as long as the smoke has penetrated through the whole hide, it’s essentially all the same. Be careful to not scorch the hide.

[n_mathews13]

Today is the day. Got the hide hanging and being smoked. First time so we'll see

[n_mathews13]

Here we go

[trapper boy]

I here you supposed to smoke hides for about 4 hours-- on each side!
It does take a long time.

[n_mathews13]

Not sure why the pic got out up more then once. Smokes one side for 1hr 15 and the other side 1hr. Could have went longer but it looked good. It's my first time to smoke one and it's my wife's , so I'd rather not mess it up. Iv been told by a few people it don't take much to smoke a hide

[n_mathews13]

Not bad

[runamuk]

so hang on here that looks like a processed hide already tanned?  Why smoking it?  just for color, for fun?  I am curious because I have read up on a bunch of methods of dealing with hides, in my dream world I would have all sorts of soft tanned hides with and without fur.

Can you explain a little more from raw green skin to nice leather?