Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What do you hang your deer on to skin them?

No trees, buildings, etc.......

Hog spreader on a chain from front end loader at Dads.

Skin them on the tailgate if doing it here.

I see some people in there that I know.

I use a couple of steel gambrels, one of which my late Father-in-law had the welder on the Mississippi river tow boat that He worked on make. Scaled from a drawing in a magazine, but heaver metal. I use them with ATV winches fastened to an large oak in the back yard. Cable running up to a pulley on a large limb. Have two to use, so can hang two deer at a time. Seldom cold enough to let them hang except for overnight, but I have a fridge in my shop where I can quarter and cool for a few days. Made a skinning rack, from pictures and measurements made from RIO7's place. miles

If it has to be moved any distance, my llamas will be doing it. In that case, it gets skinned and quartered on the ground. If it gets home intact, I have a large locust tree in the yard with a big limb at just the right height. The 1st time I used that tree, my wife objected to having a dead deer outside her kitchen window. I said it's not a deer. A deer is walking around on 4 legs. This is meat, just like you cook for dinner. When she thought about it that way, she totally accepted it and never objected again.

Gambrel and chain block in the shed

at my deer camp we have a pole with a guy wire steel bitch arm attached to the shed, that`s on the shaded side of shed and wide enough to drive the wheeler with the small trailer with the deer in it.we always skin the legs out before we hang the deer -bear or what ever with block and tackle. out west either a decent tree or my reciever hitch steel post set - up with block and tackle, for elk and deer shot in the ruffer country we ground skin and quarter our animals .

At deer camps I use their skinING rack. This one utilized a boat winch to hoist the deer up.
If you look close, above his L antler is a scale to weigh on.



At home I simply use a tree.



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In my back yard.



Jerry

I use a large capstan boat winch with rope bolted to the side of the garage and a rafter in the garage with pulleys. Speaking of pulleys, we were hanging three deer at the cottage and the guys were using a single roller pulley off the rafter and struggling. I’m no mechanical engineer, but I taught the guys that using two multiple roller pulleys makes lifting a deer way easier. I dropped a 12 point way back and hung him high off a tree limb to quarter him with the two multiple roller sailing pulleys and 50’ of rope that I keep in my pack. Look at any industrial crane and they always use a pulley on the hook end, never a single line pull.

Throw them on the tailgate of the truck. Skin one side and put meat on ice in cooler. Flip them over, skin the other side and put meat on ice in cooler. Toss whatever isnt needed to make the animal legal (head, evidence of sex etc...) into the bushes.

After a good washing out and cleaning - they are transfered to
the front porch (hung head down) to be aged- and later processed in camp

Man, wldthg, that front buck is a big ol' fatty.

Everybody makes fun of my butchering coat but I don't care, lol. Been happy with this setup when it is hot out...





Yes, I know those aren't deer.


Otherwise I prefer to bring them home to skin them mechanically








And chill in a pop cooler I got for free

Skeen----- yes it is---- I've been stumped by this one ever since the photo was taken ---- We all throw in a dollar and guess the weight of our bucks. Then weigh it. (Field dressed ) ---- Our scales always are within a pound or two of the offical check in scales the state of Vermont uses. ---- this big hog only weighed 157 lbs. on our scales. I wished we double checked the weight of this one. His neck alone weighs as much as some of the spikehorns I've shot. The same hunter holds the camp record of 186 lbs but this one seems larger. The first 50 bucks we shot in the 1970's -80's camp record was 126 lbs.
----------thanks Web

I'm usually in rough country in the sagebrush hills. In recent years I've skinned most of my deer on a plastic tarp. I know it's easier to have them hanging, but I don't have a good setup for that where I'm hunting.

Whatever will hold steady long enough to get
the skin off. Everything is gravy after that and
just takes a few minutes

Big pecan tree with the hoist hooked to a horizontal limb. Been a lot of venison cleaned right there.

I know that it is not always feasible, but I much prefer my meat to stay on the bone for a few days, before deboning. Seems to make the meat much more tender. If I have to put it in the fridge, everything stays on the bone except the tenderloins. miles

Used a snatch block with a truck winch.