I bet people will talk crap but I actually enjoyed seeing it a different way than “the right way” like every other TH-cam video says. If you aren’t mounting or keeping the hide this way seems really quick and easy. Good video man! I love watching your videos and tips!!
Some people don’t seem to understand that there is more than one way to get a job done. I like watching the way others do things because I might learn something.
I have skinned a lot of deer and even MORE furbearers.. I tried this method on a doe today.. It was SO FRIGGIN' EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ringed the neck and went down the back. Only things I did different were I did take off the lower parts of the legs, to me it's just easier with them out of the way. And I used a "Muddy Deluxe Skinning Tool". You grab the skin with that and it's so easy. GREAT VIDEO and thanks for sharing!
I am 80 years old and have skinned a lot of deer, but this method of doing it has really impressed me. I am going hunting this weekend in Illinois and if I am lucky and get one I will try this way. Thanks for the video.
I nearly didn't watch this thinking: " just another skinning video" I'm glad I watched! That carpet knife is slick! Its easier than my way (ball and winch) thank you.
You ought to put two anchors in the floor with two removable eye bolts to tie the hind feet down so it won't spin around on ya, or from the ceiling for the front feet, I use Para cord to tie the legs to something to keep mine from spinning, but I've been skinning mine just like you for over 25 years.
SO HAPPY YOU SID THIS!!! thanks Jason learned a lot. Got a hankering to see a gutting and full butchering video... your videos are most informative ... haven’t gotten the best info elsewhere...thanks!
Jason, After watching many of your deer hunting videos especially the ones about tree stands, and safety gear (I copied your lineman belt and safety tether), I finally got to put this skinning video and the quartering video to use today. Thank you for creating these videos. I have found them extremely educational.
My family has always hung ours by the neck. A lot of my friends think i am nuts but its easier and faster when you start to quarter one up. I did learn a slick thing with that carpet knife that was cool. I have watch friends gut them hanging by the hind feet and I always laugh and tell them they are fighting the rib cage cause it holds everything inside, hanging them by the neck everything falls right down into the cleaning bucket, then just skin it and everything is ready to haul off.
Great video! And the carpet knife... EPIC! What an excellent processing tool. Thanks for daring to teach a method that runs contrary to the "herd" mentality of skinning, and is effective! There is ALWAYS something new to try!
Thank you for the very good video. I have skinned and processed about 80 deer and I learned a couple of new (to me) tricks that I plan on using the next time I have a deer to process. I particularly like the way you use a carpet knife,
Great job! I just skinned one today before seeing your video. I’ve always hung it from the hind legs. Just how I was taught. But I’m going to try it this way next time. I might just like it better. Will make cutting with the hair easier.
I bet you like the head up method. Everyone I shown to do it like that in person now does it that way. No worrying about cutting so detailed around back tendons needed to hang it. No fight over the shoulders, etc. Just simple and easy.
Hanging by the neck is how I was taught. I have a hard time with hanging by the legs LOL. I did learn something with your video with the carpet blades .Thanks
I'm different than everyone, it seems. Everyone's always looking for the 'fastest' way to skin a deer. For me, it's one of my favourite parts. Crack some beers and work away. I'm a knife-nut too, so it's a time i get to utilize them. For me, it's an enjoyed process, not something i'm just trying to get done.
Thats awesome that you enjoy skinning that much! Love that you have that as part of the fun. Most of us skinning is just in the way of processing meat. We all need to slow down and think more like you are and enjoy the skinning more. Thank you for the great comment.
Your way helps me a lot the way you explain it reminds me of how I explain things at work. People often say I think way outside the box lol but guess who they work for?
The only thing I would add is to use catfish skinners for holding the skin. Your hands will be further from the knife and it is easier to use both hands to pull the skin down. (My husband and I have been skinning deer with the head up for many decades.)
This kind of stuff is really helpful for new hunters... it's great you do it! This is just how I was taught to do it. The only difference is we would sawzall the leg ends off, but I think I will stop doing that. Our deer get tested for cwd, and I like to avoid cutting bone when I can.
Yeah I used to cut the leg bones too as i was taught that way. then when I started boning deer in the field I realized i can bone them out with out cutting the legs there so why bother cutting them at home. Stopped and lever looked back.
@@mr.reality9741 Makes sense. I just leave them on. Make it easier to maneuver the quarter when boning out the meat for me. Especially when boning it in the field.
Thanks I've been cleaning deer a long time but never seen it done that way. I like it because it seems to have less contact with the skin hide side touching the meat and then having to try to remove that stubborn hair left behind. Thanks excited about trying your method..God Bless safe hunting!
Great advice jason makes skining simple. I like the hook blade, I bet that would work great for gutting ,never have to worry about nicking the inners. thanks
Kudos on a successful hunt! Whatever it takes to get them on ice! Though, this is probably not the worst way, it's pretty close! A+ for owning it, D- on technique! Extra credit for the carpet knife hack ❤
How i was shown to skin a deer head up. My brother in laws and nephews do it by the back legs. Showed up to help my nephew skin his and I didn’t even know how to start it. He showed me but,we had hair all over the meat. Glad to see some still do it this way.
Thanks. The back cut is handy for winter deer when you don't jave a heated garage and fighting half frozen deer. Or for people like my neighbor who has little grip in his hands.
Those carpet knife blake’s are the ‘Beez-kneezz when you have a trapping shack full of critters…quick easy prep before the real work begins. And beaver skinning knifes are my favorite for removing all hides…makes a decent boning knife too. 👍👍
@neotoxo54 love the beaver knives. My son lost mine years ago and I keep forgetting to replace it. You sure can move fast with one and less chance of cutting thru
Butchered my own deer for over a decade. Never thought of slicing hide down the back. Would definitely make easier. Unfortunately I physically can no longer butcher my own. But still love new ideas. Thanks.
Back in 80's, the hide was worth a few dollars (notice that I didn't say "bucks"). Then the synthetics came about. I don't think that I could even SELL a deer hide these days. This guy does it almost every way that I was taught (by my Dad) on how to skin a deer. Except, the cut down the backbone. But, I will try that! The easier, the better!
Nice job man. The hook blades are awesome. I trap and use them all the time when I'm putting up fur. They are great for splitting tails. Have a great season.
Jason, thanks again for your informative videos. Concerning aging venison. What do you do? I live in NC and I can’t hang the deer or don’t have access to walk in cooler. Do you dry age in a fridge or leave in an ice cooler for a few days? Thanks for any input.
Now that I'm in the south as well I will age them as boned out muscles in a cooler with frozen water bottles for a day or 2. Have one on ice right now doing exactly that I'm gonna process tomorrow
Jason, I appreciate the insight and sharing your method. As you said many times, there is no right or wrong way to get it done as long as you get it done. One key thing I learned and appreciated with your method is the safety factor of the carpet blades. I have seen many folks get careless with there knife in those awkward areas like between the front shoulders. Question, do you find it better or easier to hide the animal when warm or no real preference? I have done both depending on conditions and time available but prefer to do it warm for ease, easier on the fingers and cools meat off quicker.
Yep warm is so much easier. When warm you barely have to do any knife work just pull the hide off. When I used to trap coyotes I would carry the mini gambrel right in the truck and skin them in the field immediately as it s was easier. If you wait couple hours on a coyote it takes 3 times as long as the hide sticks like glue.
I tried to tell some hunters about skinning without first gutting it and they claimed it could not be done. In Texas we do it a little different and even that differs from region to region.
I skin, quarter, and bone out all the meat with out gutting them all the time on my out of state hunts. its called the gutless method, developed by elk hunters. I do it a few times a year. I can have a deer bones out and in the pack in about 45 minutes.
@@johnbowhunter7676 yep I use the gutless most of the time as well. Especially in hills or hunt where I have to bone out the deer by law to bring it home. Michigan won't let you bring a whole deer in from many states. Has to be boned out first.
In 1974 on my first day of field training in the Baltimore PD, my FTO took me to a Kosher slaughterhouse, to test my stomach I suppose. The Rabbis skinned the beef head up like you. Since the animals were kosher slaughtered immediately before then hung up, and gutted before skinning. Head up allowed them to roll stainless steel wheelbarrows up under the carcass so the innards spilled neatly into the barrows. Then they commence skinning. The kosher environment was very clean, all white tile and stainless steel. Next we went to non-kosher sheep slaughter house, which was a bloody, stinking mess.
I’m glad I found your video I just bought those carpet blades with skinning in mind! I think I’ll try this out it always helps to watch how others skin you can always learn something new
@@SamkoTradBow thank you. I appreciate your “workin man’s” approach to these videos. Lots of good advice and helpful tips especially with clothing and gear.
Thanks so much for the info. Very happy I go through low grit to polish with pro whetstones I think that will benefit me quite a bit. I may not know lots about deer but this may come in handy. Thanks again.
You don’t have to explain the right or wrong way brother. I just ignore all the negative and I always will listen to others when it comes to their methods that work for them .👍🏼
I’ve killed and skinned easily 50 or more deer over the years and always skinned it head down. I killed a doe today and decided to try this method. It was way easier than how I have skinned deer in the past. Many thanks.
@@SamkoTradBow Yes, my brother and I have been talking about your boning skills you speak of. pretty impressive. If you could do a butcher or a field boning video, that would be awesome!! Give the people what they want Jason!! ;)
I go head up too always have when processing deer as this makes the most sense when doing the cutting however I have to sometimes just get it done since the place we do it at is not heated. Once at parents old house doing this now at there new house same problem is not heated nor do you want heat when doing this anyhow from experience. Our house, one my brother and I own 60% me and 40% him does not have a place to do this at yet but should in a year or two.
The oly way to get hair on the meat would be to be cutting in the wrong places. When skinning all cuts other than the ring cuts should be made under the hide not on the hair side. Might of been because you are not used to doing it that way and made some cuts in places that were not needed. Not sure otherwise.
i do the ring cuts with the carpet blade. i grind the tip down some because FLA deer don't have much fat . it helps when you split the belly not to cut to deep . any thing that helps a fellow hunter should enjoyed
Same way I do it , it's cool to see someone else does it , But I cut the legs off with a sawzall first . I always said it's much easier to skin a half of deer twice than a whole deer once . 👍
I’ve skinned 300+ deer in my 45 years of hunting. I also learned to skin deer by hanging them like you do. I’ve had many negative comments until they saw how quick it is like this. I will admit in the last few years I have used a gut hook knife but I like your carpet knife idea and I will be trying it. Just goes to show you that you can always learn something new. Thanks for the tip!
very interesting , I have never deer hunted but I know some people that do and I am not sure how they skin them out but it looks like your way would be a lot easier .
How much meat is in the front shoulders of a dear? I watched people with rifles shoot through the shoulders and am wondering how much food they loose? I hunted moose back in Alaska. I was taught to shoot hart and lung was the best.
Really nice video. Been skinning deer for long long time and never tried it that way. Am going to give it try on next one really slick with that carpenter blade.
I'm definitely a little faster if I hang em by the neck, but almost all of my deer are just a few minutes from the kill site to the skinning rack so I don't gut mine in the field. So since I don't gut em in the field I hang mine head down that way if anything gets contaminated it's on the rib cage or the front shoulders wich I will clean up with a knife, but I don't have to worry about any contamination on the back hams or loins. On the rare occasion I get an invite to hunt and I'm away from home then I most definitely gut in the field, in that case I would for sure hang em by the neck! I live in the south so I age my deer after they've been skinned and gutted, don't have the luxury of cold weather :) !
@@SamkoTradBow I butcher a lot of deer and I am also a taxidermist I went and bought a pack of Hook blade today I bet those are great for opening the belly for a gut job to
@@jasonnester9514 yep they work great for gutting as well. Have a buddy down south where they don't gut them in the field and for him one quick cut with the hooked blade and everything falls out. Literally 1 minute to gut them.
Never thought about doing the deer like that, always just done it a traditional way. This is gonna be the new way I skin a deer and gutting it would probably be a lot easier. Great video!
Haha I like this dude. No bs. Just straight up this is how I do it so f off to those who don't like my way. That was great. No this is not how I do it but I wanted to learn other ways because I dont like my way so I need to try a new way of skinning.
Hahaha. You would be amazed how many people scream at me when I make a skinning or meat work video about how I'm all wrong and I'm gonna go to hell for doing it that way..lol so I had to put the disclaimer in there! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I like the idea of the hook blade knife you used but I’ve tried Amazon and can’t find one like yours. Can you send me the model of that knife you used? I’m sure others would like to know as well. Oh and I’ve always hung my deer head up it’s so much easier to take the hide off than head down! Great video.
@orestwitiw213 it's a regular utility knife and then you buy the blades called hooked carpet blades. Will try to give links when I get back to my computer in a couple days.
Nice! This is the way me and my dad do it exactly and all my relatives. Did you get the hunt of that deer on film? Even if you do not have any footage of a kill hunt, I would like to see some hunting footage soon! I always like when you are walking in to your stand or are in your stand and are explaining your reasoning for the setup and what you see in the advantages of that spot. I think that this is an awesome hunting channel!
I did not film the hunt on this deer as it was opening morning. But I did film a hunt a couple days later (didn't kill anything) but gonna be an amazing video with alot of info and detail and cyber scouting before, etc. Will be publishing soon
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I bet people will talk crap but I actually enjoyed seeing it a different way than “the right way” like every other TH-cam video says. If you aren’t mounting or keeping the hide this way seems really quick and easy. Good video man! I love watching your videos and tips!!
I appreciate that!
Some people don’t seem to understand that there is more than one way to get a job done. I like watching the way others do things because I might learn something.
Thanks!
yes. THIS^^
I really like the carpet hook blades idea! Great video thanks! And yes please show us the rest of your processing procedures
Thanks!
I’ve been using the carpet blade for a very long time. Works great
I have skinned a lot of deer and even MORE furbearers.. I tried this method on a doe today.. It was SO FRIGGIN' EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ringed the neck and went down the back. Only things I did different were I did take off the lower parts of the legs, to me it's just easier with them out of the way. And I used a "Muddy Deluxe Skinning Tool". You grab the skin with that and it's so easy. GREAT VIDEO and thanks for sharing!
Awesome! Glad it worked great for you!
I am 80 years old and have skinned a lot of deer, but this method of doing it has really impressed me. I am going hunting
this weekend in Illinois and if I am lucky and get one I will try this way. Thanks for the video.
Good luck on your hunt and hope you fill that freezer.
I nearly didn't watch this thinking:
" just another skinning video"
I'm glad I watched! That carpet knife is slick!
Its easier than my way (ball and winch) thank you.
Thanks, glad you liked it
You ought to put two anchors in the floor with two removable eye bolts to tie the hind feet down so it won't spin around on ya, or from the ceiling for the front feet, I use Para cord to tie the legs to something to keep mine from spinning, but I've been skinning mine just like you for over 25 years.
great idea! Thank you.
@@SamkoTradBow Your more than welcome, if it will help you !
SO HAPPY YOU SID THIS!!! thanks Jason learned a lot. Got a hankering to see a gutting and full butchering video... your videos are most informative ... haven’t gotten the best info elsewhere...thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I tried your method today and will alway do it your way. I also like doing 1/2 and 1/2. Thanks for teaching an old guy a new trick.
Awesome. Glad it worked good for you. And congrats on filling the freezer
Jason, After watching many of your deer hunting videos especially the ones about tree stands, and safety gear (I copied your lineman belt and safety tether), I finally got to put this skinning video and the quartering video to use today. Thank you for creating these videos. I have found them extremely educational.
Thanks. Glad you are enjoying the videos
Been skinnin that way for 40 yrs . I like the hooked utility blade .Gonna find some of those .Great video .
Any hardware store
Called carpet blades
Good to know I’m not the only one who does it head up, so much easier!
Agree 100%
I never tried it hung by head but I'm definitely going to try it..
My family has always hung ours by the neck. A lot of my friends think i am nuts but its easier and faster when you start to quarter one up. I did learn a slick thing with that carpet knife that was cool. I have watch friends gut them hanging by the hind feet and I always laugh and tell them they are fighting the rib cage cause it holds everything inside, hanging them by the neck everything falls right down into the cleaning bucket, then just skin it and everything is ready to haul off.
Agree 100% also when you hang them from the legs all the blood pools in the neck meat.
That carpet blade is a game changer! Thank you Jason
Sure does make it easy!
I keep copying your stuff, and the utility hook blades will enter my arsenal as well! Keep em coming! Great info
@charlesrochon3836 glad you are enjoying the content
This is actually most likely the most real videos I've ever seen on not the rack I'm a man dear Hunter lol I've ever Sean in my life thank you man
Thank you. Glad you are enjoying them!
Great video! And the carpet knife... EPIC! What an excellent processing tool.
Thanks for daring to teach a method that runs contrary to the "herd" mentality of skinning, and is effective! There is ALWAYS something new to try!
@dmack6156 thanks. Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for the very good video.
I have skinned and processed about 80 deer and I learned a couple of new (to me) tricks that I plan on using the next time I have a deer to process. I particularly like the way you use a carpet knife,
Glad you enjoyed the video. The carpet blades are amazing!
Great job! I just skinned one today before seeing your video. I’ve always hung it from the hind legs. Just how I was taught. But I’m going to try it this way next time. I might just like it better. Will make cutting with the hair easier.
I bet you like the head up method. Everyone I shown to do it like that in person now does it that way. No worrying about cutting so detailed around back tendons needed to hang it. No fight over the shoulders, etc. Just simple and easy.
Hanging by the neck is how I was taught. I have a hard time with hanging by the legs LOL. I did learn something with your video with the carpet blades .Thanks
carpet blades are amazing!
I'm different than everyone, it seems. Everyone's always looking for the 'fastest' way to skin a deer. For me, it's one of my favourite parts. Crack some beers and work away. I'm a knife-nut too, so it's a time i get to utilize them. For me, it's an enjoyed process, not something i'm just trying to get done.
Thats awesome that you enjoy skinning that much! Love that you have that as part of the fun. Most of us skinning is just in the way of processing meat. We all need to slow down and think more like you are and enjoy the skinning more.
Thank you for the great comment.
Thank you for showing a new way. Never seen that way before. 52yrs and I'm still learning. LOL
You are so welcome
Your way helps me a lot the way you explain it reminds me of how I explain things at work. People often say I think way outside the box lol but guess who they work for?
Thank you!
I'm going to give this method a try. pretty slick. Thanks Buddy
Thanks. Let me know how you like it when you try it
I learned about the carpet/shingle blade. Very good idea and I will be using that blade on the next deer. Old video but for me, new idea. Thanks.
The only thing I would add is to use catfish skinners for holding the skin. Your hands will be further from the knife and it is easier to use both hands to pull the skin down. (My husband and I have been skinning
deer with the head up for many decades.)
fantastic tip!
This kind of stuff is really helpful for new hunters... it's great you do it!
This is just how I was taught to do it. The only difference is we would sawzall the leg ends off, but I think I will stop doing that. Our deer get tested for cwd, and I like to avoid cutting bone when I can.
Yeah I used to cut the leg bones too as i was taught that way. then when I started boning deer in the field I realized i can bone them out with out cutting the legs there so why bother cutting them at home. Stopped and lever looked back.
Find a video on cutting the legs in the joints. No saw needed. One knife to do the whole quartering and skinning.
@@mr.reality9741 i know how to cut the joints, used to do it all the time. Bit then I asked myself "why". Why do you need to?
@@SamkoTradBow I do it to consolidate room for butchering the quarters. Plus hooves are dirty and those scent glands hold some bacteria
@@mr.reality9741 Makes sense. I just leave them on. Make it easier to maneuver the quarter when boning out the meat for me. Especially when boning it in the field.
Thanks I've been cleaning deer a long time but never seen it done that way. I like it because it seems to have less contact with the skin hide side touching the meat and then having to try to remove that stubborn hair left behind. Thanks excited about trying your method..God Bless safe hunting!
Glad you liked the video! let me know how you like it when you try it!
Great advice jason makes skining simple. I like the hook blade, I bet that would work great for gutting ,never have to worry about nicking the inners. thanks
Yep it does work great for gutting as well.
Agree, nice work and great detail of shared knowledge...video is a winner!
Thank you!
I love that carpet knife idea. I’ll definitely try it.
Works great
I never thought about the carpet knife. Looks totally cool. I have already ordered some carpet blades
makes life easy.
I will be getting a carpet knife & hook blades to use on our next deer. Thanks for these tips.
You will love the carpet blades.
Kudos on a successful hunt! Whatever it takes to get them on ice! Though, this is probably not the worst way, it's pretty close! A+ for owning it, D- on technique! Extra credit for the carpet knife hack ❤
this is my first video of yours... stop worrying about what people think.... just be you👍👍
Thank you
Oh man! That automatic hoist is a game changer! Great vid, thanks for the tips!!!
Thanks! Excited to catch up on your channel as well. See you have been putting out some new vids!
@@SamkoTradBow Yes sir!
How i was shown to skin a deer head up. My brother in laws and nephews do it by the back legs. Showed up to help my nephew skin his and I didn’t even know how to start it. He showed me but,we had hair all over the meat. Glad to see some still do it this way.
Yep I always skin head up. Less hair and less hassle and less blood collecting and pooling in the neck meat.
A happy revelation for me thank you for this above average tutorial! Now I need to find my deer!
Glad it was helpful! and good luck filling that freezer!
Thanks Jason. I love the back cut👍. Thank you for putting your knowledge of there, you're a cool guy.
Thanks. The back cut is handy for winter deer when you don't jave a heated garage and fighting half frozen deer. Or for people like my neighbor who has little grip in his hands.
Is this deer going to be ok?
Those carpet knife blake’s are the ‘Beez-kneezz when you have a trapping shack full of critters…quick easy prep before the real work begins. And beaver skinning knifes are my favorite for removing all hides…makes a decent boning knife too.
👍👍
@neotoxo54 love the beaver knives. My son lost mine years ago and I keep forgetting to replace it. You sure can move fast with one and less chance of cutting thru
Butchered my own deer for over a decade. Never thought of slicing hide down the back. Would definitely make easier. Unfortunately I physically can no longer butcher my own. But still love new ideas. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Head up, legs up, climber, lock on, compound, traditional. . .whatever. . good content, thanks for sharing, great vids and info
Yep many great options and many different ways to get the same results
Back in 80's, the hide was worth a few dollars (notice that I didn't say "bucks"). Then the synthetics came about. I don't think that I could even SELL a deer hide these days. This guy does it almost every way that I was taught (by my Dad) on how to skin a deer. Except, the cut down the backbone. But, I will try that! The easier, the better!
Yep same reason I stopped trapping. Fur prices crashed.
@@SamkoTradBow It is a crying shame. But then again, I'm not 15 anymore. I'm quite a few decades older.
I always love seeing a different way of skinning a dear. Thanks for the great video!
Thank you.
I'm going to give your method a try. Thanks,
Nice job man. The hook blades are awesome. I trap and use them all the time when I'm putting up fur. They are great for splitting tails. Have a great season.
Thanks!
I use that carpet blade for almost every animal I clean, from rabbits and squirrels to hogs and deer. Works great for everything!
Yep great tool!
Jason, thanks again for your informative videos. Concerning aging venison. What do you do? I live in NC and I can’t hang the deer or don’t have access to walk in cooler. Do you dry age in a fridge or leave in an ice cooler for a few days? Thanks for any input.
Now that I'm in the south as well I will age them as boned out muscles in a cooler with frozen water bottles for a day or 2. Have one on ice right now doing exactly that I'm gonna process tomorrow
@@SamkoTradBow Thanks Jason, I watched your cooler with frozen water bottles video last night and that’s why I wanted to ask you. Thanks again.
@@dywildatheart yep that's exactly how I do it
Great video, thanks. I have always skinned mine while it was warm. I do mine the same as yours, from the head down
Yep works best for me too.
Jason, I appreciate the insight and sharing your method. As you said many times, there is no right or wrong way to get it done as long as you get it done. One key thing I learned and appreciated with your method is the safety factor of the carpet blades. I have seen many folks get careless with there knife in those awkward areas like between the front shoulders. Question, do you find it better or easier to hide the animal when warm or no real preference? I have done both depending on conditions and time available but prefer to do it warm for ease, easier on the fingers and cools meat off quicker.
Yep warm is so much easier. When warm you barely have to do any knife work just pull the hide off. When I used to trap coyotes I would carry the mini gambrel right in the truck and skin them in the field immediately as it s was easier. If you wait couple hours on a coyote it takes 3 times as long as the hide sticks like glue.
I tried to tell some hunters about skinning without first gutting it and they claimed it could not be done. In Texas we do it a little different and even that differs from region to region.
I skin, quarter, and bone out all the meat with out gutting them all the time on my out of state hunts. its called the gutless method, developed by elk hunters. I do it a few times a year. I can have a deer bones out and in the pack in about 45 minutes.
Yep... I prefer gutless method, and always do it when I can.
@@johnbowhunter7676 yep I use the gutless most of the time as well. Especially in hills or hunt where I have to bone out the deer by law to bring it home. Michigan won't let you bring a whole deer in from many states. Has to be boned out first.
I love the carpet knife blade idea!!
Works great
Jason after the skinning, when you grind venison to make links. Do you use any binding agent or what do you put in with deer to bind
We don't make links or do any stuffing. I take the meat to our local processor to make our sausage and Jerky so I sont know what they use.
In 1974 on my first day of field training in the Baltimore PD, my FTO took me to a Kosher slaughterhouse, to test my stomach I suppose. The Rabbis skinned the beef head up like you. Since the animals were kosher slaughtered immediately before then hung up, and gutted before skinning. Head up allowed them to roll stainless steel wheelbarrows up under the carcass so the innards spilled neatly into the barrows. Then they commence skinning. The kosher environment was very clean, all white tile and stainless steel. Next we went to non-kosher sheep slaughter house, which was a bloody, stinking mess.
Thanks for sharing that. Always wondered if some companies commercially did head up methods.
Now that was slick I like that that works like very good Jack easier than the way I've been doing it thank you for making this video
Glad you liked it
I’m glad I found your video I just bought those carpet blades with skinning in mind! I think I’ll try this out it always helps to watch how others skin you can always learn something new
You will love the carpet blades
The best of 80’s and 90’s makes the process much easier as well
Love that radio station!
I’ve heard you can use compressed air blasts to help separate the hide from the carcass. Like a small tube shaped nozzle. Have you ever heard of this?
you can and it works good. I have never done it but have seen it done by taxidermists.
@@SamkoTradBow thank you. I appreciate your “workin man’s” approach to these videos. Lots of good advice and helpful tips especially with clothing and gear.
@@flashpointbravo thanks
Thanks so much for the info. Very happy I go through low grit to polish with pro whetstones I think that will benefit me quite a bit. I may not know lots about deer but this may come in handy. Thanks again.
Yep can never have too sharp of a knife!
Thank you for the video. The next best part of the video is the background music awesome.
Glad ypu enjoyed it
You don’t have to explain the right or wrong way brother. I just ignore all the negative and I always will listen to others when it comes to their methods that work for them .👍🏼
@uvcoach42 true.
The carpet knife idea was great! Thank you!!!
welcome
I’ve killed and skinned easily 50 or more deer over the years and always skinned it head down. I killed a doe today and decided to try this method. It was way easier than how I have skinned deer in the past. Many thanks.
Glad it worked great for you!
Again, great stuff!! The hook blade is a hell of a idea! Thanks Jason!
Yeah the carpet blades are amazing
Its like a light bulb went off in my head when he pulled that thing out!
Nice video. That's pretty much the way I do it. Thanks.
Thanks glad you liked it.
Would like to see your way of butchering the deer also... 👍👍
Might try and make that video happen
@@SamkoTradBow Same, would love to see a butcher vid
Agreed
@@ArmedGringo45 gonna try and make that happen
@@SamkoTradBow Yes, my brother and I have been talking about your boning skills you speak of. pretty impressive.
If you could do a butcher or a field boning video, that would be awesome!! Give the people what they want Jason!! ;)
I go head up too always have when processing deer as this makes the most sense when doing the cutting however I have to sometimes just get it done since the place we do it at is not heated. Once at parents old house doing this now at there new house same problem is not heated nor do you want heat when doing this anyhow from experience. Our house, one my brother and I own 60% me and 40% him does not have a place to do this at yet but should in a year or two.
I tried this for the first time and felt like I got more hair on the meat than usual. Any suggestions to prevent this in future?
The oly way to get hair on the meat would be to be cutting in the wrong places. When skinning all cuts other than the ring cuts should be made under the hide not on the hair side. Might of been because you are not used to doing it that way and made some cuts in places that were not needed. Not sure otherwise.
A trick I use when skinning in my garage is to put a small kiddy pool under the deer to catch the blood
Great idea. I jave a pressure washing business, so I just pour 12% bleach on the floor when do and back to spotless.
Cheap blue tarp from harbor freight. Less trauma to your children when they see their pool covered in blood. 😁
Great idea though.
i do the ring cuts with the carpet blade. i grind the tip down some because FLA deer don't have much fat . it helps when you split the belly not to cut to deep . any thing that helps a fellow hunter should enjoyed
great tips
Thanks for the vid super good explanation I was taught the same way.
Same way I do it , it's cool to see someone else does it ,
But I cut the legs off with a sawzall first .
I always said it's much easier to skin a half of deer twice than a whole deer once . 👍
Yep head up sure does make it easier!
I like the idea of razor knife and hook blade I'm gonna try it thanks for info
I bet you love how easy they work!
Just watched your belt sander video from 5 years ago and left a comment/question. Just wanted to let you know so you would see it. Thanks!
I will check it out. Thanks
Never seen someone skin a deer with a hook blade but hey if it works IT WORKS. Nice job
Thanks.
I’ve skinned 300+ deer in my 45 years of hunting. I also learned to skin deer by hanging them like you do. I’ve had many negative comments until they saw how quick it is like this. I will admit in the last few years I have used a gut hook knife but I like your carpet knife idea and I will be trying it. Just goes to show you that you can always learn something new. Thanks for the tip!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Yep the carpet blades is a game changer! Makes it so easy to do all the main cuts.
very interesting , I have never deer hunted but I know some people that do and I am not sure how they skin them out but it looks like your way would be a lot easier .
Thanks
I enjoyed this video, Great to watch, Thanks for Sharing !
Thank you
Awesome tutorial. Definitely do a tutorial on the processing of the deer. Thanks in advance!
Will try ro make that happen
Man you are spot on! love the thorough videos.
Thank you. Glad you are enjoying them
How much meat is in the front shoulders of a dear? I watched people with rifles shoot through the shoulders and am wondering how much food they loose? I hunted moose back in Alaska. I was taught to shoot hart and lung was the best.
Depends on the hit and if the arrow stays in. But I bet shoulders yield about 5 pounds of meat each.
Thanks for the “carpet knife blade” tip.
welcome
Really nice video. Been skinning deer for long long time and never tried it that way. Am going to give it try on next one really slick with that carpenter blade.
Glad you like the video. Let me know how you like it when you try it
Good video! I’ve seen people wrap a tennis ball in the hide and grab a hold of it and pull too instead of a t-shirt, either way, good job
Excellent tip! Thanks!
I'm definitely a little faster if I hang em by the neck, but almost all of my deer are just a few minutes from the kill site to the skinning rack so I don't gut mine in the field. So since I don't gut em in the field I hang mine head down that way if anything gets contaminated it's on the rib cage or the front shoulders wich I will clean up with a knife, but I don't have to worry about any contamination on the back hams or loins. On the rare occasion I get an invite to hunt and I'm away from home then I most definitely gut in the field, in that case I would for sure hang em by the neck! I live in the south so I age my deer after they've been skinned and gutted, don't have the luxury of cold weather :) !
Sounds like you have a great system for both options.
sorry i missed it, did you say "ring cut"?
Yes cut a ring around the legs and neck
Never knew this was the unpopular way to skin a deer... only way I’ve ever done it!
Yep me too. But seems we are in the minority
Got a certain way you field dress the deer?
nope just cut belly open, yank innards out, remove junk and colon, put deer in jet sled and drag out!
That hook bode is a fabulous idea
Thank you. It works great!
@@SamkoTradBow I butcher a lot of deer and I am also a taxidermist I went and bought a pack of
Hook blade today I bet those are great for opening the belly for a gut job to
@@jasonnester9514 yep they work great for gutting as well. Have a buddy down south where they don't gut them in the field and for him one quick cut with the hooked blade and everything falls out. Literally 1 minute to gut them.
@@SamkoTradBow oh heck ya
I’m the same way to I never gut in woods
Really cool way to skin a deer. I’ll definitely have to look into those Milwaukee blades. Ever try the ball under the hide method?
I did one and all I did was break the branch the deer was hanging on and get the deer all dirty...lol
I always poke a hole or two stick my fingers threw it for grip to pull down
thats a great trick.
Never thought about doing the deer like that, always just done it a traditional way. This is gonna be the new way I skin a deer and gutting it would probably be a lot easier. Great video!
Always good to try something new. Let me know how you like it.
Haha I like this dude. No bs. Just straight up this is how I do it so f off to those who don't like my way. That was great.
No this is not how I do it but I wanted to learn other ways because I dont like my way so I need to try a new way of skinning.
Hahaha. You would be amazed how many people scream at me when I make a skinning or meat work video about how I'm all wrong and I'm gonna go to hell for doing it that way..lol so I had to put the disclaimer in there!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
I like the idea of the hook blade knife you used but I’ve tried Amazon and can’t find one like yours. Can you send me the model of that knife you used? I’m sure others would like to know as well. Oh and I’ve always hung my deer head up it’s so much easier to take the hide off than head down! Great video.
@orestwitiw213 it's a regular utility knife and then you buy the blades called hooked carpet blades. Will try to give links when I get back to my computer in a couple days.
You have sold me on that carpet knife!
works like a champ!
Very educational! Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Pretty cool, the video was helpful gonna give it a try thanks👍
Thanks, glad you like it.
Great job I will be doing it this way from now on
Try it and see if you like it! Once I did I never went back.
Nice! This is the way me and my dad do it exactly and all my relatives. Did you get the hunt of that deer on film? Even if you do not have any footage of a kill hunt, I would like to see some hunting footage soon! I always like when you are walking in to your stand or are in your stand and are explaining your reasoning for the setup and what you see in the advantages of that spot. I think that this is an awesome hunting channel!
I did not film the hunt on this deer as it was opening morning. But I did film a hunt a couple days later (didn't kill anything) but gonna be an amazing video with alot of info and detail and cyber scouting before, etc. Will be publishing soon