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Post by mudtracker on Sept 2, 2007 8:56:53 GMT -5
One thing I have been doing on coon for several years that helps me to do it alittle faster and easier is this. I keep an old heavy sharp butcher knife hand and use it to ring the back feet and then I take the front paws and locate the wrist joint and cut them clean off. When you get down to the front legs the fur comes right off easy as can be no struggling with pulling down over the paw and then cutting the hide. Works good. I keep a seperate knife handy too and that is what I use for the cut from ankle to ankle and for skinning the head out. I use a chigago 626 I think it is a boning knife
just my .02
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Post by cajunbill2 on Sept 8, 2007 13:41:40 GMT -5
thank you
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jd
Rat Trapper
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Post by jd on Sept 10, 2007 8:43:14 GMT -5
For the front feet, some heavy duty pruning snips work great for removing the front feet.
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Post by mudtracker on Sept 10, 2007 13:21:05 GMT -5
Thats a good point jd I do use those for the very large raccoons where it is difficult to cut through the joint on the smaller ones though the knife will sever the joint slick as can be IF you get it in the right spot.
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 11, 2007 17:13:08 GMT -5
nice tip jd
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Post by coonripper on Sept 11, 2007 23:23:06 GMT -5
I try to skin mine in the field but the ones i do bring home just get a whack with the splitting maul.
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 13, 2007 4:09:00 GMT -5
gees...what a pic coonripper..LOL
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Post by huckleberry on Nov 26, 2007 23:36:26 GMT -5
I have found the best coon skinnin knife I have found yet...a russsel brand paring knife...stays sharp for a few coon...then sharpens very easily.......only 6 bucks at the meat market......
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Post by Earl8656 on Nov 26, 2007 23:45:54 GMT -5
I don't ring the feet front or back. On the back legs, I just work from the split all the way around and on the front i pull it down and then cut it off past the paw, leves plenty and sometimes even then i have to trim some excess.
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Post by Cherokee Rain on Dec 14, 2007 14:06:21 GMT -5
any one got pictures of this? like to do these before he gets back.. i like showin him I CAN do this also. just want to do it on my own though sound crazy:
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Post by Cherokee Rain on Dec 14, 2007 20:09:13 GMT -5
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Post by Sunshine on Jan 12, 2008 19:29:53 GMT -5
its not crazy at all, i know exactly how you feel.
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Post by wheelers on Jan 12, 2008 20:56:27 GMT -5
I use a hook blade in a utility knife. Works great.
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Post by mudtracker on Jan 13, 2008 16:20:59 GMT -5
I'm gonna try one of those hook blades next year and I am planning to try to build a skinning rig. My poor old hands just get sore pulling those coon hides off especially when they are cold from being run down a drowner.
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Post by wheelers on Jan 13, 2008 19:16:53 GMT -5
I'm gonna try one of those hook blades next year and I am planning to try to build a skinning rig. My poor old hands just get sore pulling those coon hides off especially when they are cold from being run down a drowner. If you show up at the summer convention this year I'll show you what my skinning rig looks like.
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Post by mudtracker on Jan 14, 2008 10:50:31 GMT -5
hoping to make it again I got some ideas on how to set up my rig. I need to have it be free standing or attached only to ceiling of the garage becasue I am leary of drilling holes in the floor for anchors with the in floor heat tubing in there.
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Post by hawkeye on Feb 25, 2008 20:05:22 GMT -5
The one I made fits in my Work Mate, so I'm skinning horizontally. The foor in my shed isn't high enough for a conventional skinning machine. I just lay it the critter down, attach the legs and start pulling.
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 27, 2008 11:15:46 GMT -5
i hang them from the ceiling beam by their backfoot and skin them that way.
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Post by hawkeye on Feb 28, 2008 23:54:58 GMT -5
I've also found it's easier to make the money cut first, then ring the rear ankles.
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