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Post by korde on Jan 18, 2014 21:56:27 GMT -6
Hey guys,my schedule has been crazy so I've been limited to skinning my raccoons right out if the bed of my truck... I have never had such a hard time getting tail bones off of anything I've ever skinned like these coons. I ordered a tail stripper but after I exhausted my arms and trimming as much as I could I ended up leaving the tail bone in 5 before I froze them... I realize that I might have doomed myself here but can these be saved and is there a trick to removing them in this condition?
I'll be set up with a gambrel and stripper later this week but it hope I didn't ruin these. One looked to be an xl.
Thanks, Ethan
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Post by DaveDruml on Jan 18, 2014 22:48:03 GMT -6
if you break the tail bone off while skinning in the field just wait till you get home and use some type of choker and tail puller , skin it down some and pull,, now if you have big old boars that have their tails bitten and calloused up over the years they just wont pull off unless u skin them all the way down,, sometimes you just break them,, most fur buyers don't dock you for a couple bob tails
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Post by supertrap63 on Jan 19, 2014 10:12:36 GMT -6
skin it down a little clamp it in a vise to hold it then use tail strippers. your gonna split the back side of the tail all the way to the tip.
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Post by krank on Jan 19, 2014 18:44:11 GMT -6
My brother just cuts the tailbone free while he is skinning. He has a string hanging from the rafters. When he gets the hide off the carcass then he hangs the hide from that string by the butt of the tail. Yanks it down and leaves a tailbone hanging from the string. Been doing it like that for 40 years. No tools required.
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