Don't waste your deer hides!

[police women of America]

Over this last hunting season I've seen over five hunters throw away beautiful hides. Throwing away your hide is a complete waste. Personally, I consider it just as bad as leaving behind meat. But I'm not saying you need to spend a bunch of money on a taxidermist or spend hours working on tanning it yourself. You can sell your hides! Many local taxidermists and tanning companies are interested in buying hides. So instead of throwing away a hide, let it become of some use to someone. Here's a very good article on what you can do with your hides: http://thehuntingpage.com/heres-what-you-should-do-with-your-deer-hides/

And here's the link to the Moscow Hide and Fur: http://www.furbuyer.com/
This site buys more quality deer hides (ones without multiple holes, nice fur, etc.), but they probably pay a little more then your local buyer.

[JDHasty]

It is not uncommon for visitors to our house to see one or more Hasty chillins buried in a pile of deer, beaver, coyote, bobcat, raccoon etc

One if the little terrorists left their bobcat at the side of my bed the other night and when I stood up a claw about cut my toe in half though, so this is not without risk. 

My deer hides are always free from knife damage and I generally get a deer or two done every year.  It is not uncommon for some visitor, even long time hunters, to have never actually handled a hair on deer hide.  They are durable and warm, not the softest hair, but not bad.  About as fast as I get new ones tanned we seem to allow some visitor to go home with one. 

Centralia Fur & Hide can also make raw hide that can be used by the kids to make drums.  Buckskin can be made in a variety of colors. 

I really detest waste myself and try to make use of every part of any animal I take. 

[fishnfur]

You can tie up about a billion of these with one hide:

[NOCK NOCK]

JD....."one of the little terrorists".....

[Igottanewknee]

Also, there is a certain person who does Bears as a specialty that was soliciting people with deer hides so she can use them for people who have ruined their deer capes. It was a Facebook post.... I'm not saying it's a member who doesn't post here any more.... Probably a fine upstanding business person.. 

[police women of America]

It is not uncommon for visitors to our house to see one or more Hasty chillins buried in a pile of deer, beaver, coyote, bobcat, raccoon etc

One if the little terrorists left their bobcat at the side of my bed the other night and when I stood up a claw about cut my toe in half though, so this is not without risk. 

My deer hides are always free from knife damage and I generally get a deer or two done every year.  It is not uncommon for some visitor, even long time hunters, to have never actually handled a hair on deer hide.  They are durable and warm, not the softest hair, but not bad.  About as fast as I get new ones tanned we seem to allow some visitor to go home with one. 

Centralia Fur & Hide can also make raw hide that can be used by the kids to make drums.  Buckskin can be made in a variety of colors. 

I really detest waste myself and try to make use of every part of any animal I take.

that must have hurt. I really like the idea of sending visitors home with hides! I'm definitely going to do that in the future.

[police women of America]

You can tie up about a billion of these with one hide:

Definitely! You could even sell half of them too.

[h2ofowlr]

I have never saved one.  Not interested in having them tanned and have no use for them unfortunately.  There are no orange barrels collecting them where I am to make gloves, etc.  It is what it is.  I hunt for the meat, as I love venison.  Not a trophy hunter unless it's waterfowl.

[police women of America]

I have never saved one.  Not interested in having them tanned and have no use for them unfortunately.  There are no orange barrels collecting them where I am to make gloves, etc.  It is what it is.  I hunt for the meat, as I love venison.  Not a trophy hunter unless it's waterfowl.

You can EARN money by giving them to local taxidermists. Throwing away hides is just as bad as leaving behind backstrips in my book. It's just.... Such a waste.
All you have to do is drop them off or ship them to Moscow Hide and Fur (Although Moscow requires that you flesh the hides). I know it's not the most convenient process, but as a hunter isn't it worth knowing that it doesn't go to waste?
In the future when I'm an adult I want to try to make it easier for hunters to give away there hides without going through this process.

[Buzz2401]

Your reasoning sounds fine and dandy but I guarantee if every hunter dropped off their hides at the taxi 90% would get thrown away and the taxi would say please stop bringing them.  Its basic supply and demand.

[JDHasty]

They are worth a nice pair of gloves at Centralia Fur & Hide

[Jpmiller]

In my experience unless they are planning on doing something they are not properly skinned. When j started hunting I would take a hide from anyone and everyone and tan them myself. After a while my folks got tired of having a garage full of unusable hides due to cuts, hashes, and other problems due to careless skinning.

It's a pretty easy process to tan if you have the desire but an improperly cared for hide requires alot of sewing and there's nothing better than tanning it only to find out it was older than you thought and never cared for and having the hair fall out.

Good idea though, I try to keep all my hides

[grundy53]

I have never saved one.  Not interested in having them tanned and have no use for them unfortunately.  There are no orange barrels collecting them where I am to make gloves, etc.  It is what it is.  I hunt for the meat, as I love venison.  Not a trophy hunter unless it's waterfowl.

You can EARN money by giving them to local taxidermists. Throwing away hides is just as bad as leaving behind backstrips in my book. It's just.... Such a waste.
All you have to do is drop them off or ship them to Moscow Hide and Fur (Although Moscow requires that you flesh the hides). I know it's not the most convenient process, but as a hunter isn't it worth knowing that it doesn't go to waste?
In the future when I'm an adult I want to try to make it easier for hunters to give away there hides without going through this process.

I think as you get older and more experienced you will learn how impractical this is for many reasons. A couple main ones are that unless you are hunting from home it can be a pain in the rear to keep a hide for any length of time with out it going bad. Another reason is that it is a pain in the rear skinning a hole deer with out cutting any holes in it. It is really easy to skin a deer if you poke holes in it and use those to pull down on the hide.

Throwing away a hide is no where near the equivalent of wasting meat.

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[grundy53]

Your reasoning sounds fine and dandy but I guarantee if every hunter dropped off their hides at the taxi 90% would get thrown away and the taxi would say please stop bringing them.  Its basic supply and demand.

Agreed

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[Whitenuckles]

I have never saved one.  Not interested in having them tanned and have no use for them unfortunately.  There are no orange barrels collecting them where I am to make gloves, etc.  It is what it is.  I hunt for the meat, as I love venison.  Not a trophy hunter unless it's waterfowl.

You can EARN money by giving them to local taxidermists. Throwing away hides is just as bad as leaving behind backstrips in my book. It's just.... Such a waste.
All you have to do is drop them off or ship them to Moscow Hide and Fur (Although Moscow requires that you flesh the hides). I know it's not the most convenient process, but as a hunter isn't it worth knowing that it doesn't go to waste?
In the future when I'm an adult I want to try to make it easier for hunters to give away there hides without going through this process.

I think as you get older and more experienced you will learn how impractical this is for many reasons. A couple main ones are that unless you are hunting from home it can be a pain in the rear to keep a hide for any length of time with out it going bad. Another reason is that it is a pain in the rear skinning a hole deer with out cutting any holes in it. It is really easy to skin a deer if you poke holes in it and use those to pull down on the hide.

Throwing away a hide is no where near the equivalent of wasting meat.

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