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Four deer hides fleshed
Hawkdancer:
WhaAaat?, you mean everything ain't bigger in Texas?! >:D (lol) (lol)! Couldn't resist! I'm used to mule deer, does average about 120# or more, haven't scored a buck for a long time! Still trying to decide how to finish the hide Jacie scored in the fall season. I do remember many years ago, a young lad took a whitetail buck that weighed over 200# in Missouri with a bow! His dad's farm, figured that buck had been eating their corn all summer, they should have him for Thanksgiving dinner! State record if I remember correctly!
Hawkdancer
Pappy:
I have never figured out how to do a bunch of hides at once, I thought about building a smoke house but was told by the guy who taught me that you want to force the smoke through the hide and didn't figure a smoke house would do that. I have stitched 2 together and done 2 at a time before that worked pretty well. He said you weren't just looking for color but force the smoke through the hide to preserve and water proof to some extent . :)
Pappy
SLIMBOB:
Our Hill Country deer are just small. South Texas and farther north, a bit bigger.
Pappy, we simply tried the smoke house just to see. We started small and went bigger later. The hides get a more thorough smoking when you do the little tipi method. But we would have a bunch of little fires scattered about and it was a lot of work just to keep them going properly and prevent a flare up that burned the hides. The smoke house works very well. You gotta smoke them longer, but you have one fire with a dozen hides, so no biggie.
Pat B:
Bob, I love the color of those hides. :OK
bjrogg:
I'm sorry I got so sidetracked on this project. I put ash boards I sawed from my dead ash trees on my Man Cave walls which I've been wanting to do for a long time. Turned out beautiful. I was just gonna get back to this project when a family emergency popped up. Now it's to close to planting season to tackle. I did get 3 hides brained and softened. 1 dehaired rawhide. 3 more dry on frames and ready to dehair. I'm kinda interested in the multiple smoke method slimbob. I know a guy with a really nice smokehouse that said I should use it. I was always thinking the smoke had to go through the hide to.
Thanks for all the information everyone. I learned a lot from this project.
Bjrogg
PS sure miss Ed. Hope he's ok
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