ATTENTION HUNTERS

[Elkstuffer]

Lol Ric
seems like I always get the one customer that misses this post....

On a similar note the proper way to bleed your buck is to wait 30 minutes after he is dead. Snap a few memory or bragging Board  shots. Using the largest and dullest knife you have start your incision on the hair side just below the ear. Now here's the tricky part. It's important that you use a sawing motion so that the wound appears to be more along the side of a werewolf kill rather than a clean cut. After you complete tis incision you want to hang your deer upside down until at least 5 drops of blood are rendered from this gaping wound...... he's now properly bleed.

You're killing me Jeff

[Michelle_Nelson]

Lol Ric
seems like I always get the one customer that misses this post....

On a similar note the proper way to bleed your buck is to wait 30 minutes after he is dead. Snap a few memory or bragging Board  shots. Using the largest and dullest knife you have start your incision on the hair side just below the ear. Now here's the tricky part. It's important that you use a sawing motion so that the wound appears to be more along the side of a werewolf kill rather than a clean cut. After you complete tis incision you want to hang your deer upside down until at least 5 drops of blood are rendered from this gaping wound...... he's now properly bleed.

You're killing me Jeff

  LMAO

[HunterStrait]

Here's another tip, if you're spending another day or more at camp, lay the hide fur side down on the ground, in good shade, so the ticks can crawl off. scrape as much fat off the pelt as possible. put it in a cooler if the temperature gets above 50 degrees and/or when flies are out and about, Wasps/Hornets are not an issue.

Do NOT hang the pelt on a fence, or branch. I had to trash an elk hide that was absolutely covered in maggots and ticks.

Do NOT put a raw pelt in a plastic bag (unless you're freezing it), put it in a game bag, fur needs to breathe too 

If you're tanning the hide yourself and its covered in live ticks, put it in the freezer, in a game or paper bag, leave it in over night and take it out to thaw in the morning, every single tick will be dead, i promise.