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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6175938
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Chimpanzees, they look a little like humans when your peeling em.

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: walleyed] #6175986
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Originally Posted By: walleyed
Originally Posted By: Hutchy
Most people dont like otters because of the tail. I was one of those people till I figured out a way to do the tails in about a minute flat. Once the tail was fast, I started enjoying them.


Hutchy,

How About Sharing & Explaining Your Secret For Skinning An Otter Tail Fast ?

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Better to see a video. If you want to pm me, I can take a video of the next otter tail and send it to you somehow. I dont know how to post videos on here. I have some traps out, likely get an otter or two this week.

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6175997
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Does anyone know if posting a video to you tube is the only way to post a video on here? Doing otter tails this way really changed skinning for me. Maybe ill make a post of it if I can figure out how to post a video

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176019
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Elephants. Hate having to roll them over, and getting them boarded is real buggar. Gotta be darn careful of the cartilage in the ears too. I'm thinking of rolling em up and sticking them in the freezer and trying Bocos frost scraping methods in the winter.
Guess I shouldn't gripe, those stinky hippos are nearly as bad.

Osky


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176039
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I would love to see a way to do an otter tail in one minute.


Made it almost 3 years without censor!

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176041
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I love doing otter tails. Really pretty easy once you get the hang of It.
Never try and take It off all at a time. Kind of like fileting a fish. Take off one edge at a time then take off the middle. Takes about a minute.


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176075
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The way I do the tails is with a certain caribou beaver skinner knife. About a 2 1/2" blade with a deep belly. I do it on my round beam. Hold the otter with your belly and stretch the tail tight with the other hand. The belly of the knife conforms to the two ridges of fat on each side of the tail. I basically just push the fat off with the knife and work down to the tip. No real slicing, just a push. As beav said it becomes kind of fun. Occasionally I will nick the side of the tail, but its easy to get right. Just takes the right shaped knife and a push.

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176084
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Lions. Especially ones named Cecil.
Coyotes suck too.


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176112
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Those nasty coons. Never had to skin a possum but I think I'd hate them too.


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176132
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Coyotes have some stinky behinds. I don’t find it difficult to skin them. Even badger smells don’t get to me like a coyote with a smelly bum


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: pcr2] #6176727
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Originally Posted By: pcr2
stinky possum with the green stuff runnin out of it.


2 words. Garbage can!!

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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6176734
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Coyotes can go on a the skinning machine.Beaver's can't.So Beaver's.


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6178180
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I am the worlds worst knife sharpener, so coyotes are the toughest for me, and my short stubby fingers don`t help with
the pulling either! mad

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6178207
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Chickens and young turkeys. If you want to screw up some good poultry get lazy and don't pluck it. I have no clue why people buy, or how they stand to eat, skinless chicken breast. You serve up some white cardboard and I doubt anyone would notice. skin is where all the good grease is and fat not only tastes good its good for you. Healthy energy that will keep you going a lot longer than sugar.


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6178284
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I've skinned a couple of porcupines for a mammology class and I can say, quite literally, they are a pain to skin....


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6178359
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Lol. I am guessing you dont flesh a porcupine over your knee??

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6178369
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Originally Posted By: Hutchy
Lol. I am guessing you dont flesh a porcupine over your knee??


Well you don't do it twice!! Fleshing was more like lots of borax and blade work...


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: muddyriverdogz] #6178460
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Originally Posted By: muddyriverdogz
Coyotes can go on a the skinning machine.Beaver's can't.So Beaver's.


Who said ya can't pull a beaver on a machine? Just a bit different hook-up.
Dennis


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Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6178629
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Surprised no one mentioned snapping turtles. Not only do they dull a knife out in no time flat, they fight you the whole time.

Re: Any animal you hate skinning? [Re: Hutchy] #6178639
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I can skin a fresh turtle in about 15mins no waterhose eaither, I don't mind skining nothin to much but I thank i hate yotes mostly cause I'm not set up to deal with um and I rarely get to skin a warm one( witch are no so bad) and being a taxidermist most of them are shot in half with what ever arm cannon thay happen to be deer hunting with!
Colt

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