{"id":2457,"date":"2020-06-03T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorsportsnation.com\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2020-11-06T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:55:58","slug":"fleshing-and-salting-your-deer-hides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorsportsnation.com\/fleshing-and-salting-your-deer-hides\/pentecostkyle12\/news\/06\/03\/2020\/2457\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleshing and Salting Your Deer Hides"},"content":{"rendered":"
I usually kill at least two deer per hunting season in Michigan. One of my favorite parts of hunting is butchering the animal and processing the meat. I get my grinder, vacuum sealer, smoker, and dehydrator going and turn the animal into great natural food. While I am very proud of the way I use as much meat as possible, I know there are other parts of the animal I’m wasting.<\/p>\n
So, I’m trying to set myself up to start fleshing and tanning my deer hides to use for blankets, leather coats, gloves, wall decoration, anything that isn’t just throwing away the hide. I’m going to cover some of the tools you’ll need to do it and give a brief overview of the process. The great thing about learning to tan is that you can perform this same process with any fur-covered animal with some minor variations.<\/p>\n
Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n All in you’re looking at about $160 give or take for your tools, and then the price of the salt for each hide you tan. If you want to go further and tan the hides yourself there are chemical kits you can pick up or you can take the fleshed and salted hide to a tannery and have it turned into a finished product.<\/p>\n Process<\/strong><\/p>\n\n