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 ...

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 ...

James Van Lanen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Sep 9, 2016 Sep 9, 2016 FAIRBANKS — Outdoor Editor’s note:The following detailed do-it-yourself account of brain-tanning was previously published in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beaver pelts helped drive the early North American economy, and on Thursday’s airing of Mountain Men, Morgan showed us how to tan a beaver hide. The two main things you will need for a tanning a ...

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 ...

SILT — Ros Hatch has always made people feel good. Whether it’s through her work at a beauty salon or her infectious smile and laugh, people just like to be around her. For a little more than a year ...