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Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: The Beav] #6746300
01/27/20 07:30 AM
01/27/20 07:30 AM
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Northern Maine
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Originally Posted by The Beav
Never could get the hang of clean skinning. It takes me about 10 min to beam flesh one.

X2


Nevada bound
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746314
01/27/20 07:56 AM
01/27/20 07:56 AM
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N.W. Pennsylvania
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I bought myself a Necker 600 this year, two weeks ago in fact. Now to catch some of these Pennsyltucky beavers....


Keep your boots dry and your powder too.

I remember when a fur check was reality.....now I'm just trapping for the love of it.

Best Regards,

JT
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746350
01/27/20 08:45 AM
01/27/20 08:45 AM
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first 1000 are the hardest.guy watched me do one the other day and when i gently went right down the center and 2 in wide piece came of perfect from neck to tail with almost no effort he about passed out.if your working too hard-your workin too hard.









Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746356
01/27/20 08:54 AM
01/27/20 08:54 AM
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Northern Maine
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Back in the day before the neckers and the rest came out ,for years I used a machete simply adding another handle to the other end.


Nevada bound
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746505
01/27/20 09:50 AM
01/27/20 09:50 AM
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i get asked a lot "how sharp is that knife."--i've had to give myself stiches and superglue twice from barely bumping it by accident.have another for coon that isn't anywhere near as sharp but when i get a rough necked coyote or coon i run for the sharp one.

with good tools-clean skinning or fleshing can be a breeze









Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746524
01/27/20 10:05 AM
01/27/20 10:05 AM
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Nebraska
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Agreed pcr2. To properly clean skin you have to be able to maintain a razor edge on the knife through the whole process. It makes all the difference, for me anyway.

Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: pcr2] #6746593
01/27/20 10:13 AM
01/27/20 10:13 AM
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Northern Maine
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Originally Posted by pcr2
i get asked a lot "how sharp is that knife."--i've had to give myself stiches and superglue twice from barely bumping it by accident.

No thanks.Think I will pass. shocked crazy


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Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746596
01/27/20 10:17 AM
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Paul Millette used to say,"be careful,my knives are so sharp your eyes will bleed from looking at them"


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746645
01/27/20 10:27 AM
01/27/20 10:27 AM
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Nebraska
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Whenever I would loan a knife to someone I used to say, " My uncle always told me a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp one, so be careful, this is dull". LOL

Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746651
01/27/20 10:32 AM
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i have 3-the razor
the cooner
the lender.









Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746659
01/27/20 10:38 AM
01/27/20 10:38 AM
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I fight fleshing them but get it done, not that good or fast at it.


Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746661
01/27/20 10:40 AM
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Tried several different fleshing knifes . Then i got a caribou, cut my time in half, takes hardly any effort to use, so now I can do more beavers in less time and effort. THE only fleshing knife i'll ever use PERIOD !!!!

Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746678
01/27/20 10:56 AM
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clean skinning is all I ever know how to do a beaver that's how my grand dad and my dad always done them I always enjoyed doing them , but not as much anymore with my arthritis in my hand


50 + years of trapping & some fur buying and i still know nothing.
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746725
01/27/20 11:33 AM
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i started with a bent over paint scraper and a rapala filet knife.limit was 3 so it worked.









Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Boco] #6746737
01/27/20 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Boco
No problem leaving them on for your own use.Standard handling procedure is to remove the nose and whiskers/lips an inch ahead of the eyes.
That is where the beaver are measured from even if the nose is left on it wont gain you anything and could lose you a size if boarding to the size lines.
Takes longer for that thick stuff around the whiskers/nose to dry so if you need your boards to meet a deadline etc you can get the hides off a day or two quicker. [Linked Image]

Exactly!

Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746842
01/27/20 01:02 PM
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I don't own a standard fleshing beam or fleshing knife.


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Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746947
01/27/20 03:28 PM
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Clean Skun and be done!!! I have seen folks flesh beaver in all kinds of crazy ways. It’s all struggle to some degree even for those with a mastered efficient system. I have gotten to the point that I would just rather clean skin while standing comfortably upright and take em straight to the board.


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Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746951
01/27/20 03:32 PM
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I'd sooner skin and flesh a beaver than a coyote any day. Too much fussing around with a coyote. Besides that, some of them stink like a dog that rolled in something rotten. I like the smell of castor.


I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: pcr2] #6746958
01/27/20 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by pcr2
first 1000 are the hardest.guy watched me do one the other day and when i gently went right down the center and 2 in wide piece came of perfect from neck to tail with almost no effort he about passed out.if your working too hard-your workin too hard.

I’ve been working doing beavers the last two days. In the past, I worked around the outside of the hides, taking off the easy stuff, then would do battle with the center.

I read your post yesterday about shaving down the center from head to tail. I got out the whetstone and worked up the Wiebe, which I would have said was already sharp. I probably used that sharp side on 80% of the beaver hides. I did 5 big ones in half the time that I spent yesterday doing 7. I never nicked any hides, they came out great.

Re: Hate Fleshing Beaver [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6746972
01/27/20 03:56 PM
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It comes down to what you're comfortable with. Once you learn to do it a certain way any other way will seem clumsy. I always felt like skinning and then fleshing was redundant. Clean skinning does both things at the same time. I no doubt would feel differently if I had learned to rough skin and flesh on a beam.

One can argue about which is more time efficient but I don't honestly think there is that much difference for those that are experienced in either way.
I average about 15 minutes to clean skin a blanket and about another 15 minutes to board it. I'm sure there are lots of guys faster than me.


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