Hides

keetoowah · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject: Hides

What do all you "great white hunters" do with your hides?
you know like your Elk Deer Antelope Moose Buffalo etc etc etc

Bushmaster · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Hides

Have them tanned and use them as whim dictates...Such as 4 braid hat bands, gloves, etc.........

keetoowah · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: Re: Hides

cool to know

shrpshtrjoe · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: Hides

I have Tanned a couple ( with the hair on ) and have them displayed. I used a salt and alum soloution to tan them. Fleshing them is a pain in the butt, but it's nice when it's done and ya did it yourself.
Joe

ElyBoy · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Hides

The Minnesota Deer Hunter's Association has drop of cannisters all over the state for the hides.
Most Deer Hunters, including myself, drop off all of their deer hides in their containers.
The money from the hides goes for deer habitat, research, and deer hunter's representation at the Minnesota State house.
MDHA is a great organization.

Eric

gelandangan · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: Re: Hides

Don't rightly know.. I'm a "great brown hunter" myself

But I give the hides I got to my friends.. sort of a bribe to help me to write to our local politicians Very Happy

keetoowah · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: Re: Hides

I tan my own. I also use the salt and alum technique but I have done it with hair on and hair off(white ash solution).
Sometimes I cheat by putting them in a dryer with no heating element to soften them, then fold them into a cone over a smoke pit to waterproof them
sorry Gelan should have just said all you hunters.

regards

PaulS · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: Re: Hides

My hides become clothing, drums, rattles, sheaths, covers, bags, laces and flies.
some I use as rawhide for drums and rattles. For soft hides I brain tan them. I don't usually smoke them unless it is for footwear.

Vince · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Hides

Well, I don't always keep them, but those that I do...usually deer or good roo hides, I tan using a Tanning Kit, leaving the hair on, that is available pretty cheaply here in Australia. It does a great job, and as Joe said.....you have the satisfaction of having done it yourself.

The Leder Tanning Kit is the one I use, although it gives the leather a soft blue colour. I think it is a chrome tanning process.

Cheers, Vince

hunter63 · Member Joined: Dec 02, 2006 Posts: 68

I wear mine, tanned a couple, but lots of work.
Did a couple in raw hide and a few in buck skin.

Lots of ways, but easiest is to send them to a tannery, pretty pricey.
www.wbplace.com/

They do a good job with both hair-on and buckskin.

tracker · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Hides

I've always given mine to a few people who tan and use the leather and now where I work we have a youth group learning some of the traditional leatherwork crafts, drum and rattle making with rawhide, moccassin and glove making, etc, so I suppose I'll be donating to them. It's nice to see people aren't letting them go to waste.