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Any animal you hate skinning?
Posted By: Hutchy
Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:34 PM
I imagine most people CAN skin anything with varying degrees of efficiency, but just wondering if there is any critter you just plain don't like skinning.
For me its fox. The thick fur combined with thin skin makes it a pain in the butt, from skinning to fleshing to boarding. I just hate doing them! Id trade anyone nose count otter or beaver for fox in terms of skinning fleshing and boarding.
Anyone else?
Posted By: jbyrd63
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:39 PM
yote stink dog
Posted By: The Beav
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:41 PM
Coyotes
Posted By: Michael Morris
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:42 PM
Otters and beavers. Hate skinning them. Coons too, coons are alot easier than beavers and otters for me, but I hate skinning them all the same.
Posted By: Pete in Frbks
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:46 PM
Wolverine
Posted By: eastwood44mag
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:51 PM
Grinners. Gave up on them after first season. Stinky stinky little buggers.
Posted By: Roll Tide
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:52 PM
Hate skinning coyotes and fleshing beavers
Posted By: DaYooper14
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:52 PM
Otters. Love catching em, dread skinning em. Yotes don't bother me much for some reason.
Posted By: PineDoggin
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:55 PM
I'd have to agree with the Fox, I've been freezing everything and then doing them later, I don't think that helps much either with the foxs pelt and fat drying out for fleshing, I think coyotes are by far the easiest for me.
Posted By: bhugo
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:56 PM
Beavers
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:57 PM
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. My first otter had about sixty holes.
Once the tail was fast, I started enjoying them. I just hate having to be so super careful with the fox. One bit of too much pressure and riiiip. Nice hole.
That said, after doing a bunch of fox this season I am much better, but I still dont have to like them.
Posted By: snowy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 03:57 PM
Coyotes are nasty for me I actually won't do them. Badger and beaver I don't mind doing but are tough to flesh for me.
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:00 PM
Coyotes arent far behind. Occasionally I get that one that just wont flesh clean. I think I need better technique with them. Plus our coyotes are 40lbs for a tiny one.
I hate putting in the push pins for a fox tail. My little girly hands never seem to get the pins in all the way due to the fur.
Ok, now id better stop whining. lol
Posted By: yoteguts
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:03 PM
Coons hate them. Yotes don’t bother me at all.
Posted By: walleyed
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:03 PM
just wondering if there is any critter you just plain don't like skinning.
Nasty, Rotten, Putrid, Butt-Sniffing, Stink Dog Cayutes !!!
w
Posted By: Law Dog
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:08 PM
Love catching the yotes hate skinning the yotes I'd rather peel 10 skunks then do a yote but I do them anyways!
Posted By: Swamp Wolf
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:11 PM
Cold cats and coyotes around the shoulders.
Otters and coons I let the winch do all the pulling...
Posted By: imissed
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:15 PM
I've only put up coons,mink and rats.
Don't mind doing them. Like Swamp said I let the winch do all the work. Coons are a little greasy though. OK alot greasy!
Brad
Posted By: BBarnes
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:16 PM
Yotes for me, They stink.
B
Posted By: garman
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:19 PM
Badger-->coyote-->opossum
Posted By: Lazarus
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:26 PM
B A D G E R S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: jk
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:31 PM
Especially frozen coyotes when in a rush.......jk
Posted By: eric space
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:32 PM
I once worked for a dead stock company. Skinning day old dead cows and horses in the summer months was a joy!
Posted By: Allan Minear
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:36 PM
I've skinned many different critters with the exception of otter, skunk and weasel, wolverines and wolves.
I like Lazarus hate skinning badgers and mink, mainly it's the smell I don't like.
Allan
Posted By: Boco
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:41 PM
Red squirrels,always a pain to make sure the tail winds up with the pelt and not the carcass.
Posted By: btomlin
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:41 PM
Fox. I've only done a couple in my short trapping career, but my 1st one ended up a tail-less disaster.
Posted By: ~ADC~
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:49 PM
Fox, they pull easy but they tear way too easily, I can't hardly get myself to slow down and be careful.
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 04:55 PM
i love working in the shop but for 30 yrs my dad skinned 90 percent of my rats and beaver.he loved to skin those 2 but wouldn't touch anything else.he passed 3 yrs ago and rats and beaver bring back a flood of memories of hundreds of hours in the shop with him.
Posted By: PA.Trapper
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 05:02 PM
Coyotes
Posted By: 2labs
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 05:24 PM
Raccoons I hate the most, I will skin Fox all day compared to one coon.
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 05:28 PM
Fox, they pull easy but they tear way too easily, I can't hardly get myself to slow down and be careful.
Ive seen your skinning videos. If you skin fox like you skin coon, like me you will have the same issues.
thirty seconds a coon doesnt fly for fox. Exactly why i hate them
if I could get my coon to half your speed id be a happy man haha
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 05:29 PM
Red squirrels,always a pain to make sure the tail winds up with the pelt and not the carcass.
Dont worry about it and send the tails to Mepps. probably worth more even still. I had what I thought was a decent red squirrel for three years now at fha. They just threw it out. lol
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 05:38 PM
Yotes
Posted By: Boco
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 05:39 PM
I don't market red squirrels thru the auction at this time,although in the past I have avg'd just under $4 for a pile of them.
I sell on the craft market,tanned.Tails are important in that market.
They sell good at auction when they are used for linings in expensive leather jackets.In that case tails don't matter.
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 05:44 PM
Does mepps still use them even? Perfect. tails to mepps, and fur elsewhere. lol
Posted By: walleyed
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 07:16 PM
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 ?
w
Posted By: The Spruce
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 07:28 PM
Coyotes are never fun.
Favourites are Otter, and Beaver.
As per discussion above....Tails are easy to skin, once you learn to "upcut" with the knife, they are also easy to flesh.
Spruce
Posted By: mississippiposse
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 07:38 PM
Coyotes
Posted By: YamaCat
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 07:56 PM
Badger
Posted By: Hoppytrapsfur
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 08:00 PM
Armadillo.
Will
Posted By: J. Brooks
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 08:22 PM
I will gleefully put a knife to a whole truckload of coyotes before I would willingly put up a badger. A good skinning setup makes peeling coyotes a non-event.
Posted By: Metalbender
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 08:25 PM
Squirrels and coyotes, I wish everything skinned like a rabbit
Posted By: ~ADC~
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 08:26 PM
Fox, they pull easy but they tear way too easily, I can't hardly get myself to slow down and be careful.
Ive seen your skinning videos. If you skin fox like you skin coon, like me you will have the same issues.
thirty seconds a coon doesnt fly for fox. Exactly why i hate them
if I could get my coon to half your speed id be a happy man haha
LOL, you get it.
Posted By: chas3457
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 10:09 PM
Skinned 25 Badgers two seasons in a row. Don't mind them a bit. Just as soon leave a coyote in a ditch rather than skin it.
Horizontal winch is just the ticket for badgers. Now that I have a Steinmeyer knife, fleshing is a breeze. Wish I would have had one years ago.
Charlie
Posted By: ksp107
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 10:17 PM
Beaver
Posted By: Joe krogman
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 10:28 PM
Badgers
Posted By: alaska viking
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 11:00 PM
Ermine. You even look at the rear-ended, and the shop reeks. And that gland smell won't wash off with anything short of turpentine. Mink is nice, compared to weasel.
Posted By: PSB1011
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 11:06 PM
Badgers
Posted By: walleyed
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 11:11 PM
Never Layed Hands On A Badger.
Phil, What Is It About The Things That Make Them Unpopular To Skin Out ?
w
Posted By: Kansas Rook
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 11:50 PM
Badgers suck!
Posted By: LDW
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/02/18 11:59 PM
I will gleefully put a knife to a whole truckload of coyotes before I would willingly put up a badger. A good skinning setup makes peeling coyotes a non-event.
X2 Don't mind coyotes, hate badgers.
Posted By: Elitebowman
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:10 AM
I hate skinning Yotes. Stinky rotten things.
Posted By: LDW
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:17 AM
Coyotes don't smell so bad, now them miserable badgers are stinking critters.
Posted By: walleyed
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:22 AM
Is Skinning A Badger Worse Than Dealing With A Liberal
DEMO-CRAT ?
Posted By: Boco
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:23 AM
Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!
Posted By: PSB1011
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:23 AM
Never Layed Hands On A Badger.
Phil, What Is It About The Things That Make Them Unpopular To Skin Out ?
w
Of all animals that I have skinned,they are the toughest,on top of that,they flesh just as hard or harder,on top of that,if you dry them hide out,and then go to turn them fur side out,they turn like turning a very tough card board box,so,don't dry it very long at all,couple hours (2-3)hide side out.
Having said that,they are georges tanned.I want to get a jacket made with black leather sleeves,and collar,and bottom strip,with badger on the rest.-someday
Posted By: Marten Ted
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:27 AM
Badgers can be pretty tough skinning. I'll still do it though!
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:27 AM
stinky possum with the green stuff runnin out of it.
Posted By: walleyed
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:27 AM
Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!
BOCO'S ON THE BOTTLE !!
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 12:28 AM
bad part is i know exactly what he is talking about.
Posted By: cat daddy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 01:31 AM
Chimpanzees, they look a little like humans when your peeling em.
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 02:06 AM
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 ?
w
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.
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 02:15 AM
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
Posted By: Osky
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 02:27 AM
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
Posted By: alaska viking
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 02:44 AM
I would love to see a way to do an otter tail in one minute.
Posted By: The Beav
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 02:46 AM
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.
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 03:14 AM
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.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 03:22 AM
Lions. Especially ones named Cecil.
Coyotes suck too.
Posted By: waggler
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 03:46 AM
Those nasty coons. Never had to skin a possum but I think I'd hate them too.
Posted By: Badgerman50
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 04:01 AM
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
Posted By: imissed
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 10:21 PM
stinky possum with the green stuff runnin out of it.
2 words. Garbage can!!
Brad
Posted By: muddyriverdogz
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/03/18 10:29 PM
Coyotes can go on a the skinning machine.Beaver's can't.So Beaver's.
Posted By: Dan Parson
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 06:51 AM
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!
Posted By: danny clifton
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 11:06 AM
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.
Posted By: Redknot
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 01:12 PM
I've skinned a couple of porcupines for a mammology class and I can say, quite literally, they are a pain to skin....
Posted By: Hutchy
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 02:56 PM
Lol. I am guessing you dont flesh a porcupine over your knee??
Posted By: Redknot
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 03:01 PM
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...
Posted By: iaduckhntr
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 04:47 PM
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
Posted By: AmmoRat
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 08:29 PM
Surprised no one mentioned snapping turtles. Not only do they dull a knife out in no time flat, they fight you the whole time.
Posted By: Redsleeves
Re: Any animal you hate skinning? - 03/05/18 08:51 PM
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