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Quote from: h2ofowlr on December 11, 2016, 09:56:26 PMI 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 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.
Quote from: police women of America on December 11, 2016, 10:55:28 PMQuote from: h2ofowlr on December 11, 2016, 09:56:26 PMI 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.Don't be so quick to pass judgement. Hides are worth about 2-7 dollars in raw form. Capes are worth money.
Quote from: JODakota on December 12, 2016, 08:35:52 AMQuote from: police women of America on December 11, 2016, 10:55:28 PMQuote from: h2ofowlr on December 11, 2016, 09:56:26 PMI 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.Don't be so quick to pass judgement. Hides are worth about 2-7 dollars in raw form. Capes are worth money.But if more and more people started selling them, hides would be worth cents, and capes would drop as well. Supply and demand.
Quote from: h2ofowlr on December 11, 2016, 09:56:26 PMI 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.
Sorry but nothing anyone says will convince me that hides are as precious as the flesh my family consumes. Also, not all of us shoot deer close to vehicles or places that are ideal for skinning. I don't know a single backpack hunter who packs out a whole hide. Deer or elk.
Quote from: police women of America on December 11, 2016, 10:55:28 PMQuote from: h2ofowlr on December 11, 2016, 09:56:26 PMI 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.Sent from my E6782 using Tapatalk
this is absurd. I dont know many people that clean an animal in a way that preserves the entire hide. Especially people that quarter an animal lol. There are bigger fish to fry in the waste dept than trying to convince people to save the hide.
Some people never do learn to skin an animal without cutting them full of holes. I have a tool called a Deer Zipper (no longer made) that makes it fast and easy to jerk the hide off with a truck. They are good for bucks, but does just don't have a strong enough neck. These are also handy. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Big-Game-Deluxe-Skinning-Tool/1304999.uts?productVariantId=3071097&WT.tsrc=PPC&WT.mc_id=GoogleProductAds&WT.z_mc_id1=03349019&rid=20&gclid=CJLNie6K79ACFQ92fgodkosB7Q&gclsrc=aw.ds