Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

well I learn something new everyday..the skin trade went much longer than I previously believed...I know the skins were used to line aircraft fuel tanks of combat aircraft in hope they would help to plug up bullet/shrapnel holes but thought the trade was over long before the 60s...I heard of a farrier who thought instead of cow leather apron he would make one from deer leather...BAD MOVE... it wont rip the same and big draft horse put foot down half way through shoeing,nail caught in apron and farrier ended up on deck.