First time I am going to try tanning deer hides. Here's my dilemma. I had both hands get carpal tunnel surgery, along with elbows. I was called this past Saturday morning and was told that our half a beef was ready for pickup. Running low on freezer space so I pulled my deer hides out, thawed them and covered them with salt. It's to early for me to flesh them, it was hard enough to flesh what i caught before the surgery. My question is will it cause any issues with just salting them now and flesh later?

The guy I know doesn't scrape his deer hides. They just salt them and whoever buys them salted.

Can't sell a hide or any other part of a game animal in NC. Sad that we waste so many hides.

OP didn't say he was selling hides.

Said he wanted to try tanning them.

Maybe someone who tans can chime in.

Salting is fine. Best to have them angled slightly to drain. Salt, then shake off after a few days. Resalt.

Fleshing them later will be a bit tougher, but will work fine.

Definitely not ideal to salt unfleshed hides. Are there large chunks of meat and fat on the skins?

I would say expect some slippage.

I would have bought another chest freezer for the beef.

Fine for leather. Risky for hair on.

First off thanks for the replies. If there's a chance for slippage I might just have to try my hand at making buckskin. I cleaned large chunks of fat and meat off of it. I have the deer, plus a couple of coyotes, coons and muskrats to try. Skinned a few of the rats like you would skin beavers. Going to try alum tanning and mount them to small hoops like beavers.