skinning your catch

[gundog]

For those without much experience try this for easier skinning.
Foremost try to get your catch skinned as soon as possible after dispatching. I'm not talking like the same day -- I'm talking within 2 hours. Preferably while the animal is still warm and before rigor mortis sets in. Your skinning job will be much, much easier and you will save time also. Ask the folks on here, a big boar coon is hard enough to skin. After you skin him then get him ready(I usually rinse and dry mine) for the freezer. You will have the job done and wont have to worry about forgetting to skin him and the fur slipping.

[foxpro14]

i couldnt of said it better myself gundog...also if u have a air compressor use it to seperate the meat from the skin...i used it on all of my animals this year and it worked great!!! but u have to do it on the first cut to keep all the air from escaping...jst dont get um too full or they mite explode LOL!!!! >foxpro<

[crazycatfisher]

so just put the air gun in the first leg cut wheater it be the front or the back leg?

[slingshot]

so it does work! the guy that I bought my land from lives down the road and said the same thing. Good deal

Thanks foxpro14

[foxpro14]

yea catfisher weather its the front leg or back it dosnt make any difference both will work jst fine.... and No problem slingshot always happy to help out a fellow trapper!!!

[jbat]

FoxPro, What kinda fitting do you use on your hose to stick in cut?

[mocatmancb]

i dunno what foxpro uses, but a small wand will work. you can put braze on the tip to leave just a pinhole for a high pressure stream of air. just a small diameter wand is fine.

[foxpro14]

yall i more or less use what mocat described,but a little bigger than a pin hole tho...i kinda rigged my own out of some old copper tube and a trigger press to regulate air going into the animal...hope this helps jbat???

[jbat]

Thanks for info guys!!!

[foxpro14]

yea grump is rite about that the fat content of the coon affecting the idea that we are talking about ,and it really does make a difference in the temp of the animal,no matter what the animal is.It really does work better on preadators tho due to less fat content...and i am with grump on the face that it does make me bust a gut watching the site of 25 pound boar being aired up like a beach ball!!!LOL LOL!!

[jimmyjames]

how about this to skin your catch

[evertrap]

I've used the air skinner on beaver with good luck and on coon with not so much luck. My first experience was learning where not to insert and how much pressure to use, which basically blew the X out of the animal all over my leg.

[jake2311]

Heard of it used with a syringe on catfish, sure more air required on thicker skinned critters.