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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: kyron4]
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12/24/17 09:44 AM
12/24/17 09:44 AM
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Southwest Michigan
Michigan Trappin
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Southwest Michigan
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Case skinned will not turn in to the same round pelt
But cased and tanned is a really neat pelt, you have the entire soft belly fur to work with
You can make a great bag from it, selling them to others or having mittens made
If Grenwould runs a rout by you, just left the metric ton of flesh on after skinning as they pay about the same for it as fleshed and dried
Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!
If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: kyron4]
#6099555
12/25/17 04:43 PM
12/25/17 04:43 PM
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Wisconsin
The Beav
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Wisconsin
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Or you will smarten up and quit trapping them.
The forum Know It All according to Muskrat
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: eedup]
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12/26/17 06:39 AM
12/26/17 06:39 AM
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Indiana
kyron4
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Indiana
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Practice means lots of bvr, after 50 bvr you'll be amazed at how much quicker you are. Ya, I just finished number 3 . I got a long way to go.
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: The Beav]
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12/26/17 06:40 AM
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Indiana
kyron4
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Indiana
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Or you will smarten up and quit trapping them. I'm there but my 11 year old trapping buddy says keep going.
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: eedup]
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12/26/17 09:26 AM
12/26/17 09:26 AM
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WI
handitrapper
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WI
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If you make your opening cut from the tail up towards chin but only go 1/3 way up and then skin the back legs like a normal open bvr you can then hang bvr by the tail and finish in the cased style. When you're done you can then split from your initial cut to the chin and have correctly skinned bvr. I do this on smaller ones for eating. All others just open and skin. With practice you can get bvr skinned in 5-6 min. This is exactly how I do them. I don’t split them until I’m done fleshing. That way I can hook the mouth opening over the end of the beam. Works pretty good. IMO
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: kyron4]
#6100302
12/26/17 09:31 AM
12/26/17 09:31 AM
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NC, Person Co.
QuietButDeadly
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I dried mine as they are boarded in the pic and told the tanner that I wanted them left cased and tanned. These were smaller beaver, probably 25 lbs or slightly less and I think I stretched them on an otter board. Not sure what you would need to stretch a cased blanket beaver.
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: eedup]
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12/26/17 10:05 AM
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Wisconsin
The Beav
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Wisconsin
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Lol haven't gotten to that point, but do have contracts with daily wage, mileage and per bvr. I hear ya.
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: kyron4]
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12/26/17 11:08 AM
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Southern Illinois
ilbucksndux
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Southern Illinois
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I have tried my best to clean skin them but I still end up having to do a lot of fleshing so I just quick skin them and my beam time seems to be the same. The more I do the quicker I am.
Gary Bartlow
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: Hutchy]
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12/26/17 01:37 PM
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin
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I find beaver unlike any other critter to flesh. Never was able to figure out how to beam them. An hour or so of proper clean skinning instruction will do wonders for your beaver processing time. Hutchy just place the hide dead center on the end of the beam and just keep turning It as you flesh off the outside 6" of the hide. Then you will end up with about a 5" strip down the middle. Then just hook the nose over the end of the beam and take off that center strip. When you center the hide you have the same amount of weight hanging on all sides so It dosen't slide off the beam.
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Re: Anyone case skin a beaver ?
[Re: kyron4]
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12/26/17 02:10 PM
12/26/17 02:10 PM
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potter co. p.a.
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potter co. p.a.
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when i fleshed for buyers i always got a few and got so i just opened em up before i started.although i guess it should of been easier cased but was so used to normal it would make them harder.
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