The first time I tried it I had just portaged twice, dragging canoe and 200 lbs of buck deer. It was late. I was cold and wet....but very happy.

I was hunting solo.

Anyways, when I finally reached my back yard, a thought crossed my mind.

I recalled reading about pulling the hide off. I went to garage and got a new tarp. I fastened bucks horns to a tree. I cut around the neck and rolled a rock under hide and tied it off. I cut the hooves off at the knees as normal. I fired up the old wheeler and tied the other end of the rope to it.

To my amazment....the hide peeled right off in 30 seconds or less. I drug the hide off the tarp. I was left with clean carcass on a clean tarp. I generally enjoy skinning....but Ive used this method a couple other times since. Always works great.

I’ve never done it, but have heard of people doing it. Looks like it worked well for you.

Never tried it, don't have a 'wheeler'... LOL!

We have an eye anchor in the concrete. Slip a golf ball under the hide, tie on rope and then use the rafter mounted winch to lift and peel. A knife stroke here and there is usually needed.

Yep go to YouTube and watch the golf ball method.

We did it with a golf ball, chain and winch. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Very fast and the best part is the absence of hair on the carcass.

Golf ball method X2.

A friend of mine uses his farm tractor to pull the hide off.

A couple times yes and one time neck dislocated oops.

No. I don't mind doing it the old fashioned way with my hands and a knife.

Yes. Works great. Used to tie them up to a tree limb and pull the hide off with my truck.

I don't do them myself anymore. After having a tick borne disease,my hands get to stiff. Have a place I take them about five miles from my house.

Only way to fly.....

A butcher taught me that on deer over 60 years ago. Deer hide is not attached very much over most of the carcass.

DDave

Have done it with day old deer and my truck - works great! Do need a little knife work as Therifleman indicated. HAPPY THANKSGIVING, YA'LL!

The warmer they are, the better it works!

I just hang them up and use a small rock up by the neck well the loop of climbing line and use my body weight to pull the hide off of the upper half. Beyond that, I usually just get my elbow in between the hide and the carcass and drop my weight into it that way.

I do avoid using a knife as much as possible, though because I always send the hides out for tanning and knife marks can really screw that up.

Hung deer on sturdy tree, made the preliminary cuts as mentioned, placed small rock at back of neck with rope tied around it, tied other end of rope to jeep, backed up slowly, and hide came right off. A guy from Louisiana showed me this.

I'm not sure the rafters in our hundred year old machine shed could stand up to the tug of a four wheel drive pulling on a deer hide. Looks pretty slick, but I kinda enjoy working on a deer with the knife. It's therapeutic and really not a hard job for me.

yep

Butcher taught me, on a hanging deer, to just pull and punch when the going got tougher.

Now a moose is a far different proposition. Pretty knife work required all the way.

DDave

Deer skin just like sheep. Make the initial cuts and then use your thumbs, hands, knees,and leverage. Over before you know it, and leaves the hard stuff, just under the hide, covering the meat to keep it clean and moist until you cut it up. It peels off in sheets. Also leaves a hide that you can see the hair roots on the inside. Little to no scraping required before tanning.

There's more than one way to skin a deer.

Did that once with the deer hanging on my chain falls in the garage. I wanted to keep tabs on it while the hide came off soooo I asked my wife to pull the Blazer ahead. The shriek she let out when she saw the naked deer swinging in the garage was something to behold. Still laugh about that.

The sooner you remove the hide, the easier it is, with a knife anyway.

I've done this several times. Like you I cut the limbs at the knees, but I also cut all the way up the gut and neck, down each leg, and peel shoulders where it looks like it could use a little easing. These pre-cuts help make you feel like the hide's not going to tear, but they're probably not necessary.

I was always afraid to hold him down by his antlers. I have never known how strong that antler/skull connection is; I know it's strong enough to fight with, but I've also seen one-sided racks during the rut, so I don't like to trust it. I use a noose. But the antlers obviously held for you.

It's a good method to use if you want to use the hide also- no knife means no knife cuts:) JayInOz

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