Tanning your own deer hides is a great way to round out your skills as a hunter.
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Locavore Blog: Turning deer hide into buckskin (with photos!): Phase 2
One of the coolest winter projects anyone can try is turning your deer hide into buckskin. It seems like it would be hard to do, but most of it is fairly easy — requiring more time (for each phase) than anything else. In my last post, I went over how we got started, covering phase […]
Locavore Blog: Turning Deer Hides into Buckskin (photos!)
This weekend we started the process of turning the two deer hides from this fall into buckskin. Thanks to the knowledge of our friend, Kenneth Mulder, our two hides will transition from slightly shedding raw hides to soft and pliable buckskin. Our other friend, Jim Harding, is also learning with us. Buckskin is different from […]