Skin a Deer with a golfball and a truck?

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Originally Posted by seabast

Skin it around the neck would have help, it takes a bit of prep. We have been doing many deer that way and it never went wrong.
Its a great way to skin a deer but just like anything, it takes practice, and patience, to get good at something.

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The neck of a rutting buck is the slowest part. The rest of the deer wouldnt take more than ten minutes if the deer is warm. By mysef the conventional way only burns half an hour.

My group has been doing it that way for over 15 years now only we use a stone and hang the deer from the bail fork on a loader tractor. We just pull the hide off with a couple guys on the end of the rope. Mind you this method is a lot easier if you skin your deer as soon as you bring it back to hang it. I know some people that wait until the hunt is over for the day then do all the deer together and it is certainly tougher once the deer has fully stiffened up.

Has anyone ever skinned a Moose like this?

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Originally Posted by oaknut

The neck of a rutting buck is the slowest part. The rest of the deer wouldnt take more than ten minutes if the deer is warm. By mysef the conventional way only burns half an hour.

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You seem like you are good with your knife and that's great. We have done it both way and that's the only way we do it now, it's faster and the butchers love it.

Word of warning if you're doing this. Make darn sure you've got that deer securely fastened to something strong or snap-o...you're deer is going to end up on the ground and you'll have ropes or chains sling-shoting everywhere. There is a lot of force there if that skin doesn't want to peel right off. We did a big buck a few years ago this way and had some meat come off with the skin.