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friend at Camp Taconic gave us three hides from white-tail deer that he had shot with black powder. He also let us shoot the muzzle-loader. D hit his target using a firm support at about
25 metres. The first step in preparing the hides is scraping off the meat, fat, and membrane that was left after the skinning. After scraping we nailed them to boards to stretch and dry since we couldn't get the chemicals (pool supply places were closed for Christmas). Anyway, I don't think the tanning would have worked in the cold (and we weren't about to bring the hides inside!). We couldn't even scrape them until the hides thawed.
friend at Camp Taconic gave us three hides from white-tail deer that he had shot with black powder. He also let us shoot the muzzle-loader. D hit his target using a firm support at about
25 metres. The first step in preparing the hides is scraping off the meat, fat, and membrane that was left after the skinning. After scraping we nailed them to boards to stretch and dry since we couldn't get the chemicals (pool supply places were closed for Christmas). Anyway, I don't think the tanning would have worked in the cold (and we weren't about to bring the hides inside!). We couldn't even scrape them until the hides thawed.
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