Deer Leg Skins, Sinews, Hooves, Hide Fleshing and Processing Videos

I shot some footage to possibly use as support videos for my book, Buckskin, The Ancient Art of Braintannning which is in process for reprinting.  These are some videos I put together from that footage recently.  More for the archives.

How to skin and dry hock skins, the lower leg of the deer. These are used to make bags and stuff. Sorry I don't have any pictures of the bags I've made in the past. I'll have to start saving leg skins again. Support my channel by using this link whenever you shop on Amazon.

Removing Sinew (tendons) from deer legs for drying. Sinew can be used for gluing to the backs of bows, wrapping stone arrow points and feathers onto arrows, making bowstrings and other cordage and as sewing thread. For how to remove backstrap sinew, see my other video here: https://youtu.be/Texv12eY0c4 Removing leg skins: https://youtu.be/WY2ao_pMj08 Support my channel by using this link whenever you shop on Amazon.

How to remove deer hooves for making rattles and decorations. The deer hoof is heated under the fire or in hot water until the hoof can be pulled off. Support my channel by using this link whenever you shop on Amazon.

Showing how to flesh deer hides for drying or tanning while preparing a skin for braintanning. More details below. Support my channel by using this link whenever you shop on Amazon. Free for you, a big help to me!: http://amzn.to/296alqr Keep me making Content as a patreon supporter: http://www.patreon.com/skillcult Subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/skillcult Check me out on Instagram and Facebook as SkillCult and on Flickr as Steven Edholm.

A few tips for processing your deer, skinning, dealing with wasps, washing (or not), preparing, knives, hair on the meat, skinning strategy. Related videos below: Animal parts playlist: https://youtu.be/J-oWBdxxMfA Carcass Care: https://youtu.be/TL99JRUshYY Full Skinning Video: https://youtu.be/J-oWBdxxMfA Support my channel by using this link whenever you shop on Amazon.

Dealing With Meat Under Varied Conditions, Heat, Aging, Spoilage Prevention

I filled my second deer tag recently and had a carcass to deal with just on the very evening that we entered into a heat wave in late September, with warm nights on top of it.  Fortunatley, I have dealt with this sort of thing enough to know not to panic.  My deer is all in the freezer now and I've been chowing down on delectable venison for days and will be for months to come.  Last night I was chowing down on raw venison that had hung through a warm night with no chilling right after being killed and then through most of a day that reached 103 in the shade, delicious!

For anyone of a homesteady mentality that will be planning to raise and slaughter animals, or who hunts much could probably be helped by this information.  It takes time to build confidence doing this sort of thing and to begin understanding boundaries, but it's great knowledge to have. Everyone used to know this exact type of stuff, because that is what everyone needed to know.  people used to get fresh meat from the butcher and needed to keep it without refrigeration or know how long they had to use it all up before it went bad.  I was looking through a cookbook recently from way back and it had a section on judging meat at the butchers to suss out how fresh it was.  Important skill to have at the time and also now if you choose to put yourself in positions where you need to make due under varied conditions.  I have more to say about this whole subject and things I'd like to expand on or that got missed in the video, but I have to go get ready for rain this weekend.  This video will have to do for now.  It's not a how to kind of thing as much as an expansion of what are probably most people's perceived boundaries regarding this subject.  It is certainly micro-niche information, but very important when you need it.

I also tagged in some neat footage at the end of a couple of yearling bucks play fighting near my house.  Very lucky to have the chance to capture that!

I got a second deer this year and thought this was a good opportunity to talk about preventing spoilage and aging meat under conditions that are not ideal. I have quite a bit of experience in that sort of thing from living without electricity and choosing to do things for myself.

How to remove back strap sinew without wasting any meat

Whether or not you want to use the sinew, this is a great way to remove it from the back strap meat. We'll be moving soon!  I'm working on the new website now!

In this video, I show how to remove the backstrap sinew cleanly and efficiently without wasting any meat. This is a goat, but it is pretty much the same on any large herbivore I've dealt with, like deer. This method is fast, easy, leaves almost no meat on the sinew and leaves the backstrap muscle in good condition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Texv12eY0c4