Don't waste your deer hides!

[JODakota]

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.

Don't be so quick to pass judgement. Hides are worth about 2-7 dollars in raw form. Capes are worth money.

[JDHasty]

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

[davk]

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.

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.

[JODakota]

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.

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.

I should have specified what I was getting at, I throw the hide out. 2-7 bucks isn't worth my time and capes are only save if they are Large and have good coloring. Other then that, toss em.

[Karl Blanchard]

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.

[Tbob]

I don't shoot many animals, but the ones that i do shoot are usually waaaaaay back in there somewhere and only thing coming out on that long heavy hike with me is meat and maybe the antlers if it's a big one and it will all fit in my pack... I understand what you're saying about using every part of the animal, but it's just not practical. I'm hunting for meat.

[deerslyr]

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.

When you start killing animals in the back country and packing the hides out let me know; then you can call me wasteful 

[police women of America]

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.

I can see leaving behind a hide if you're VERY far out. That's probably one of the few times I consider it fine to do. But probably (this is a total guess) 60% of hunters in Washington hunt no further than 5 miles from there truck.

[dscubame]

I am not humping a hide back 5+ miles for a $5 pair of gloves.  I suppose I am guilty of wastage, 

[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.

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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Yes it may be inconvienient, but isnt it inconvienient to hunt? Why not just go buy meat from the grocery? I don't hunt for convienince, I hunt to get resources. Meat, fur, antlers, bone marrow. Anything I can get I use. Maybe most people disagree, but I prefer not to waste anything if I'm lucky enough to an animal.

[frazierw]

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.

[police women of America]

Maybe it is because I'm young, or maybe I'm just really frugal. But I consider hunting an amazing experience, and I feel very blessed and lucky to get a animal. Because of that, I won't throw away or waste any animal I get. The day I stop caring to do so is the day I stop hunting. Because at that point I'm not hunting, I don't want the deer, I'm just hunting because the season is open. You can buy meat from the store, but you can't buy the experience of hunting.

[police women of America]

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.

You can remove the hide very easily before quartering, it takes less then five minutes:

He has the deer hanged, but you don't have to hang it to be able to remove the hide. It's just easier that way.

[frazierw]

i would LOVE to see someone skin a deer like that in the field in five minutes.  Way different when a deer is hung at your house IMO

[police women of America]

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

I've seen those used before. Very useful for skinning, especially hunters who have trouble with it.