Re: O/T any body know how to tan deer hides

Posted by Jim K on December 28, 2006 at 12:41:01 from (207.69.137.200):

In Reply to: O/T any body know how to tan deer hides posted by old on December 28, 2006 at 12:15:35:

I don't have instructions or the knowhow to do it but I do know that it is alot of work.
There are two ways that it can be done, the way the indians did it, and the way they do it today.
The indian method used the animals brains, (yes brains) a long period of time soaking in some kind of brine and hours of scraping the flesh off.
the modern method is still alot of work but uses some nasty chemical, (chromium I think).
In my teen years my buddy and I thought we were Grizzly Adams. and sent away for Taxidermy Kit.
We were going to tan hides and stuff squirrels.
My buddy got into it, but I never did. I couldn't get over the smell.
Ya otter post this one on Kountry life.
There has to be instructions on the web somewhere.
Jim K

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