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I took a couple pairs of vise grips in my gear this year.Getting ahold of the hide with vise grips is just easier.Saves your pinching muscles.
A friend gave me a Frost brand hunting knife with a molded plastic sheath.The sheath looks like a fillet knife sheath.Its rigid,with a smooth,round tip.
I used that to force between the meat and hide and separate them(instead of my fingers)
I used that to make the cuts inside the legs and and a patch of hide around the anus,also up the middle.
With the hide separated from the meat,its easy to put the blade in and cut out.Less hair.
Once I had the patch of hide off around the anus,the knife sheath worked good to free up the colon from the inside of the pelvis,too,so I could draw it out and tie it off.
We skinned it on the the ground in the field,rolling the hide over the animal as far as we could,then opening up a couple of trash bags as "mini-tarps" to lay down as a clean surface to roll the carcass on to to get the other side.
It worked real well.
I took a couple pairs of vise grips in my gear this year.Getting ahold of the hide with vise grips is just easier.Saves your pinching muscles.
A friend gave me a Frost brand hunting knife with a molded plastic sheath.The sheath looks like a fillet knife sheath.Its rigid,with a smooth,round tip.
I used that to force between the meat and hide and separate them(instead of my fingers)
I used that to make the cuts inside the legs and and a patch of hide around the anus,also up the middle.
With the hide separated from the meat,its easy to put the blade in and cut out.Less hair.
Once I had the patch of hide off around the anus,the knife sheath worked good to free up the colon from the inside of the pelvis,too,so I could draw it out and tie it off.
We skinned it on the the ground in the field,rolling the hide over the animal as far as we could,then opening up a couple of trash bags as "mini-tarps" to lay down as a clean surface to roll the carcass on to to get the other side.
It worked real well.