I did a google search for trapping supplies and found many sources for tail strippers, or tail pullers as this link calls them. http://www.murrayslures.com/furshed.html

I just picked one online catalog at random. On the page that comes up with the link above, tail skinning devices start with about the second or third item on the page. There is a device to keep the cut straight when cutting open a tail. Then a couple of zipper knives for cutting the tail opn.

And then there are two or three tail puller devices, or as I called them, tail strippers.

My dad had a homemade one made from two pieces of angle iron with notches in them. A pin in one end held the two pieces together and as they slid past each other the size of the hole adjusted to fit any size tail. If I can find a commercial version of that, I'll post it.

Later: Found all kinds of tail strippers but I can't figure out how to cut and paste a photo of one here. I can paste photos that I take myself, but haven't figured out the other. The cheap plastic ones run $2.95 up to $6.00 for multi size ones.

Here's a link to a place that sells a commercial version that adjusts like my Dad's old homemade one. It is the first item for sale on the page but you have to scroll past some coyote art, etc. http://www.markjuneslures.com/Fur%20Shed%20Tools.htm



Last edited by Okanagan; 06/17/09.