Avoid putting holes in a hide by tanning hides with salt, and learn how to tan a hide naturally for valuable leather goods to use around the homestead. Every rural carnivore knows that home-raised ...

If you tag a deer this fall, put its skin to good use. Here’s how to tan a hide or preserve it for professional tanning.

No garage? No problem. Tan your next deer hide for less than 30 bucks in your own bathroom. If I can do it inside a fifth-floor Manhattan matchbox apartment, it can be done anywhere. Gather a knife, a ...

I’ve brain-tanned my fair share of deer, squirrels, groundhogs, foxes and sundry other creatures unfortunate enough to cross Route 9 near our farm and school in West Virginia; but the farmers market ...

MARYSVILLE – You can get a nice golden-brown hide at Quil Ceda Tanning. Where: 3922 88th St. NE, Marysville What: Makes leather out of animal hides – primarily game like elk, deer and moose. It also ...

Learning how to tan a deer hide is a rite of passage, cementing blood ties to our hunting forebearers who depended upon skins for warmth and who respected slain animals by never letting any part go to ...

Before the advent of chemical tanning of hides to make leather, animal skins were subjected to all kinds of strange concoctions to degrease and soften them. Urine, wood ashes, tree bark acid, and even ...

For reasons I may never fully understand, the perennial number one hit on my website is a decade-old article on the topic of tanning fish hide. Since posting the article, I’ve received mail from ...

Wesley Dick can skin a deer in seven minutes. He makes three cuts with a buck knife, in a T-shape across the belly and uses his hands to scrape out the innards. Dick, whose Paiute name Kwassuba-tue ...

THE PLAINS –– At the end of the cul-de-sac sits Talcon Quinn's canary yellow ranch, a home that her grandparents built decades ago. It's quiet and unassuming, and thankfully she has known the ...

Somewhere in Minnesota, there’s warehouse with thousands of deer, elk and moose hides in various states of processing and preservation. And throughout the country, there are hundreds, perhaps more ...