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How to Skin and Flesh a beaver in the Athabaskan native style. I found this video interesting in how he opens up the beaver. One thing that always adds to the difficulty in both clean and rough skinning is the fat removal on the skin right adjacent to the center cut. Cutting it open after you skin/flesh it would eliminate that. I am going to try it and maybe try and incorporate something similar into my beaver skinning.
Thougth I would add my- Clean skinning a Beaver. This video playlist should take you into all three videos one at a time, one after the other on clean skinning a beaver. Youtube would not let me do and HD Video longer than 15 min so I broke it into three segments. This approx. 60-62 inch beaver is cleaned skinned in less than 19 min. It shows some of the techniques I have come to depend on for doing a clean job relatively fast as well as some new techniques that were just adopted into my methods. The video is shot with a GoPro head cam and provides a video from the unique position of the skinners view. Hope you are able to pick up a few tips from this series of videos.
Great post Len. I see similarities in how we skin. I too prefer clean skinning. The use of the hook and line is a great help I agree, hate to not use it. The spade you use is interesting. Never seen that done before. Looks like it works!
My best was 12 minutes, but that was towards end of season one year. At the beginning it was closer to 30.
Well my traps have been pulled since the 15 of Feb. , and I took a Vacation to Cuba , and got some time on my hands to watch video's and surf the interweb before I start doing some beaver and rat trapping , I'm not too sure if any of you's watched this one so I figured i'd post it up . http://youtu.be/FPbz5TDy6fs