Taxidermy "How to" - Page 3

**Jcochran88** · 01-14-2009, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by wd-40

Coyotes actually tan up very very nice. Main thing is, make sure you split the tail and get all the bone out. It could rot on you if you don't. Split the tail out and salt it as well. Then when you're "breaking" the hide over the table edge (or whatever you are using), you will be softening it also.

WD

Sweet! Didn't even think about the tail and removing the bone thanks!

**Mike** · 01-14-2009, 10:35 PM

The hide so far...

**Hunting101** · 01-14-2009, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike

The hide so far...

Well to me it looks great.

**SUNTZU** · 01-14-2009, 10:49 PM

This thread should be a sticky.

**Hunting101** · 01-14-2009, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SUNTZU

This thread should be a sticky.

I have thought about it. Didn't know so many people might be interested in doing this. It is now a sticky. This thread has a lot of great info in it. WD-40 again great info and I will be coming back to this thread when I start on my bobcat hide.

**SUNTZU** · 01-14-2009, 11:22 PM

I've always wanted to know how to do this. Thanks!

**Hunting101** · 01-14-2009, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by SUNTZU

I've always wanted to know how to do this. Thanks!

Same here, I have attempted but ha ha thats a whole different story.

**wd-40** · 01-15-2009, 05:13 AM

As the hide remains in the pickle and the tan, it will remain supple. After the hide is "oiled" and worked over the beam (breaking), and as it dries it will firm up as leather. Unless a deer hide is shaved/sanded very thin, they will never be as supple as say a bobcat, rabbit or such. Oiling and breaking are the secrets to a soft hide.

**wd-40** · 01-15-2009, 05:15 AM

hunting101: that hide looks good. For educational purposes, you really didn't have to flesh the hide as well as you did. It would have came off easier after the first salting. Good job on the tail! Great job though! Got to love that shot placement too!

WD

**Mike** · 01-15-2009, 08:19 AM

It only took about 45 minutes to do. Most everything came off when I skinned it. I just had some fat near the shoulders and tail and a bit of muscle across the middle back to take off. I did salt everything before I did any fleshing at all. It made everything stick together very nice and come off it out too much trouble. I just worked the point of my knife in a circular motion and made lots of little sweeps at the edge of the fat and worked my way through it.

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SUNTZU Faugh a Ballagh Joined: Dec 2007 Where: at the old spot by the river Age: 32 Posts: 4,067 Blog Entries: 5	I've always wanted to know how to do this. Thanks! __________________ "An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself... A murderer is less to fear." --Marcus Tullius Cicero REMEMBER FORT HOOD.

01-15-2009, 08:19 AM	#30 (permalink)
Mike Random Hero Joined: Jan 2007 Where: Arrington, TN Age: 24 Posts: 562	It only took about 45 minutes to do. Most everything came off when I skinned it. I just had some fat near the shoulders and tail and a bit of muscle across the middle back to take off. I did salt everything before I did any fleshing at all. It made everything stick together very nice and come off it out too much trouble. I just worked the point of my knife in a circular motion and made lots of little sweeps at the edge of the fat and worked my way through it. __________________ "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." "Live free or die" Last edited by Mike; 01-15-2009 at 08:31 AM..

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01-15-2009, 05:13 AM	#28 (permalink)
wd-40 TGO Member Joined: Jun 2008 Where: Clarksville, TN Age: 54 Posts: 312	As the hide remains in the pickle and the tan, it will remain supple. After the hide is "oiled" and worked over the beam (breaking), and as it dries it will firm up as leather. Unless a deer hide is shaved/sanded very thin, they will never be as supple as say a bobcat, rabbit or such. Oiling and breaking are the secrets to a soft hide.

01-15-2009, 05:15 AM	#29 (permalink)
wd-40 TGO Member Joined: Jun 2008 Where: Clarksville, TN Age: 54 Posts: 312	hunting101: that hide looks good. For educational purposes, you really didn't have to flesh the hide as well as you did. It would have came off easier after the first salting. Good job on the tail! Great job though! Got to love that shot placement too! WD

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